Look, the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is ready to cut off the branches with terrifying power. The tallest trees will be cut down, the loftiest ones will be brought low.

I will hand Egypt over to a harsh master; a powerful king will rule over them,” says the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies.

You take olive oil as tribute to your king, along with many perfumes. You send your messengers to a distant place; you go all the way to Sheol.

Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Lord’s house. I noticed women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

Then King Nebuchadnezzar bowed down with his face to the ground and paid homage to Daniel. He gave orders to offer sacrifice and incense to him.

For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now you have heard the blasphemy!

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “May this never happen!”

For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on.”

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,

You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.