You loyal followers of the Lord, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! All you descendants of Israel, stand in awe of him!

He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.

Wisdom is directly in front of the discerning person, but the eyes of a fool run to the ends of the earth.

Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for strangers, hold him in pledge.

Bring out some water for the thirsty. You who live in the land of Tema, bring some food for the fugitives.

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced, for it has fallen! Wail and cry out in mourning! Announce along the Arnon River that Moab has been destroyed.’

“But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.

Wail, you who live in the market district, for all the merchants will disappear and those who count money will be removed.

When it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon.

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

And the rest of the Jews also joined with him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray with them by their hypocrisy.

and in all of this, by taking up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.