Be happy for Jerusalem and rejoice with her, all you who love her! Share in her great joy, all you who have mourned over her!

So take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust and make you desolate, a place where no one can live.”

“I, the Lord, say: ‘This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.

So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people who were living in Jerusalem.

I will have compassion on you so that he in turn will have mercy on you and allow you to return to your land.’

I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the sovereign Lord.

I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.

Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.

“But as for that day and hour no one knows it – not even the angels in heaven – except the Father alone.

And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

The soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe.

On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”

I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is a great help to me in ministry.

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly.