For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these awesome miracles before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

And we have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give us your advice. What should we do?”

This is what she said to him: “That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me,

It happened just as he had said to us – Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”

They had been asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, he has done nothing deserving death.

In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?”

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a prayer of David written to instruct others. It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!

You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”

You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

You are making a fatal mistake. For you sent me to the Lord your God and asked me, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us. Tell us what the Lord our God says and we will do it.’

But Pharaoh replied, “You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

The Reubenites and Gadites named the altar, “Surely it is a Reminder to us that the Lord is God.”

“Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.”

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.