“These are the decisions that you will set before them:

This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

When the army came back to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by the Philistines? Let’s take with us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Shiloh. When it is with us, it will save us from the hand of our enemies.

One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.”

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

I will serve the Lord in the land of the living.

I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

For too long I have had to reside with those who hate peace.

Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.

A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

The word of the Lord who rules over all came to me as follows:

Show me the coin used for the tax.” So they brought him a denarius.

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

But he said to them, “It is I. Do not be afraid.”

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy.

and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.