Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?

to loot and plunder, to attack the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center of the earth.”

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.

so that they may be offering incense to the God of heaven and may be praying for the good fortune of the king and his family.

Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

Ariel is as good as dead – Ariel, the town David besieged! Keep observing your annual rituals, celebrate your festivals on schedule.

Lord, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!

“My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead – he who starts a town by unjust deeds.

for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God’s servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.

This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, pay me my wages, but if not, forget it.” So they weighed out my payment – thirty pieces of silver.

On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.