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And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you.

to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

Therefore do not be partakers with them,

I put this charge before you, Timothy my child, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, in order that with such encouragement you may fight the good fight.

even for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.

saying, “Amen! Praise and glory, and wisdom and thanksgiving, and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!”

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

Abram added, “Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”

That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. I want to have marital relations with her.”

“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied, “to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord because of the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh.

Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,