For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

For the music director; by David; written to get God’s attention. O God, please be willing to rescue me! O Lord, hurry and help me!

and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan – a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

‘I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.

For indeed he was crucified by reason of weakness, but he lives because of God’s power. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him, because of God’s power toward you.

They worshiped Micah’s carved image the whole time God’s authorized shrine was in Shiloh.

The rest of their fellow Levites were assigned to perform the remaining tasks at God’s sanctuary.

Their fellow Levites were in charge of the storehouses in God’s temple and the storehouses containing consecrated items.

He remained in hiding in God’s temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

We would share personal thoughts with each other; in God’s temple we would walk together among the crowd.

because they had rebelled against God’s commands, and rejected the instructions of the sovereign king.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

You must build the altar of the Lord your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

O Lord our God, you answered them. They found you to be a forgiving God, but also one who punished their sinful deeds.

I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.

Then the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and worshiped God

You must not worship the Lord your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!

The king replied to Daniel, “Certainly your God is a God of gods and Lord of kings and revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery!”

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.