Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

“‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.

A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The sovereign Lord has spoken! Who can refuse to prophesy?

Whenever you enter a town or village, find out who is worthy there and stay with them until you leave.

When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it.

So when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until a more opportune time.

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”

From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.

A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

For no one knows what is best for a person during his life – during the few days of his fleeting life – for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.

This is what the Lord who rules over all said to me: “Those who remain in Israel will be like the grapes thoroughly gleaned from a vine. So go over them again, as though you were a grape harvester passing your hand over the branches one last time.”

“‘If a man has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment.

God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor – instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.

“Raise up battle flags throughout the lands. Sound the trumpets calling the nations to do battle. Prepare the nations to do battle against Babylonia. Call for these kingdoms to attack her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander to lead the attack. Send horses against her like a swarm of locusts.