Rise up, Lord! O God, strike him down! Do not forget the oppressed!

The law of their God controls their thinking; their feet do not slip.

They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.

Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

“Now the parable means this: The seed is the word of God.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the Lord angry.

So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here to kill our people!”

who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house.

From Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to further the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that is in keeping with godliness,

You are making a fatal mistake. For you sent me to the Lord your God and asked me, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us. Tell us what the Lord our God says and we will do it.’

When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

Indeed,with your help I can charge against an army; by my God’s power I can jump over a wall.

The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the Lord’s splendor filled God’s temple.

He brought the holy items that his father and he had made into God’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.