Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth

supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

Drinks were served in golden containers, all of which differed from one another. Royal wine was available in abundance at the king’s expense.

Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.

In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the Lord.

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.

For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

Then he became very attached to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her.

Solomon replied to God, “You demonstrated great loyalty to my father David and have made me king in his place.

One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil.

For his loyal love towers over us, and the Lord’s faithfulness endures. Praise the Lord!

Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

The one who oppresses the poor insults his Creator, but whoever shows favor to the needy honors him.

And the men were amazed and said, “What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!”

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.

I will plant it on a high mountain of Israel, and it will raise branches and produce fruit and become a beautiful cedar. Every bird will live under it; Every winged creature will live in the shade of its branches.

in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction (surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).

For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.