Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law that the Lord commanded Moses:

You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said, “Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence?

The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply, you may do so from the royal treasury.

I am the Lord, your God, the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!’

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin; not one of them is missing.

He will provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a gallon of olive oil for each ephah of grain.

The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!

So when Joseph and Mary had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

“Then I said, ‘Here I am: I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’”

Now this phrase “once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,