and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. We stayed in this city for some days.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

Now all the Jews know the way I lived from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.

After he said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

For “physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”

Compete well for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession for in the presence of many witnesses.

For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.

Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

All the people, rulers, leaders, and judges were standing on either side of the ark, in front of the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Both resident foreigners and native Israelites were there. Half the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the Lord’s servant had previously instructed to them to do for the formal blessing ceremony.

You are to make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain that joins the second set.

The priest who succeeds him from his sons, when he first comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, is to wear them for seven days.

There was an opening in the center of the robe, like the opening of a collar, with an edge all around the opening so that it could not be torn.

The priest must dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the Lord toward the front of the veil-canopy of the sanctuary.

and that priest must dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord toward the front of the veil-canopy.