Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

But our citizenship is in heaven – and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Tychicus, a dear brother, faithful minister, and fellow slave in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.

Such testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply that they may be healthy in the faith

Slaves are to be subject to their own masters in everything, to do what is wanted and not talk back,

And, “You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house.

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

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

Now when the Lamb opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

The descendants of Joseph said, “The whole hill country is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.”

Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving at the priests, a skin disease appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfill the Lord’s message spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord stirred the mind of King Cyrus of Persia. He disseminated a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom, announcing in a written edict the following:

“I, the Lord, say: ‘You and your people are saying about this place, “It lies in ruins. There are no people or animals in it.” That is true. The towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem will soon be desolate, uninhabited either by people or by animals. But happy sounds will again be heard in these places.

So you go there the next time all the people of Judah come in from their towns to fast in the Lord’s temple. Read out loud where all of them can hear you what I told you the Lord said, which you wrote in the scroll.

to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.