This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,

A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?

He has a name written on his clothing and on his thigh: “King of kings and Lord of lords.”

If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

but the entrails and the legs he washed with water, and Moses offered the whole ram up in smoke on the altar – it was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma, a gift to the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

He told David, ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.

The descendants of Jacob will be a fire, and the descendants of Joseph a flame. The descendants of Esau will be like stubble. They will burn them up and devour them. There will not be a single survivor of the descendants of Esau!” Indeed, the Lord has spoken it.

But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes, the heavens will disappear with a horrific noise, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze, and the earth and every deed done on it will be laid bare.

David took the crown from the head of their king and wore it (its weight was a talent of gold and it was set with precious stones). He took a large amount of plunder from the city.

Look, you will have a son, who will be a peaceful man. I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. Indeed, Solomon will be his name; I will give Israel peace and quiet during his reign.

The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them.

Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Then David crossed to the other side and stood on the top of the hill some distance away; there was a considerable distance between them.

A noble wife is the crown of her husband, but the wife who acts shamefully is like rottenness in his bones.

This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’

For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel –