Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

But it is said of Zion’s residents, “Each one of these was born in her, and the sovereign One makes her secure.”

God has spoken in his sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem, the valley of Succoth I will measure off.

If they say, “Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good.

The wealth of a rich person is like a strong city, and it is like a high wall in his imagination.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages.

The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.

And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”

I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.

Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and language groups who were living in all the land: “Peace and prosperity!

Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!

Ephraim will be ruined in the day of judgment! What I am declaring to the tribes of Israel will certainly take place!

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

They brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

(For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.