(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

Then he blessed Joseph and said, “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked – the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

“El, God, the Lord! El, God, the Lord! He knows the truth! Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the Lord, don’t spare us today!

He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money!

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.

You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.

So do not say, ‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.

None can compare to you among the gods, O Lord! Your exploits are incomparable!

For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the sky.

Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful.

So then they said to him, “What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?”

Jesus replied, “This is the deed God requires – to believe in the one whom he sent.”

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!”

So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

In whatever situation someone was called, brothers and sisters, let him remain in it with God.