If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

The Israelites said to Samuel, “Keep crying out to the Lord our God so that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines!”

Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!

The Lord takes notice of us, he will bless – he will bless the family of Israel, he will bless the family of Aaron.

In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

Let’s go to the Jordan. Each of us will get a log from there and we will build a meeting place for ourselves there.” He said, “Go.”

And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

Then some people said, “Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”

Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!”

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you trick us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”

Abner said to Joab, “Let the soldiers get up and fight before us.” Joab said, “So be it!”

Some of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too cramped for us.