All the saints greet you, especially those who belong to Caesar’s household.

Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you.

If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, serve the Lord – only your flocks and herds will be detained. Even your families may go with you.”

Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the Lord against the Israelites.

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today.

The woman ran at once and told her husband, “Come quickly, the man who visited me the other day has appeared to me!”

Now take your positions, so I may confront you before the Lord regarding all the Lord’s just actions toward you and your ancestors.

Do I have a shortage of fools, that you have brought me this man to display his insanity in front of me? Should this man enter my house?”

She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said, “Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

He said to me, ‘Stand over me and finish me off! I’m very dizzy, even though I’m still alive.’

The king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.”

Then the watchman saw another man running. The watchman called out to the gatekeeper, “There is another man running by himself.” The king said, “This one also is bringing good news.”

Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down.

“O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

He lifts a signal flag for a distant nation, he whistles for it to come from the far regions of the earth. Look, they come quickly and swiftly.

Look, I and the sons whom the Lord has given me are reminders and object lessons in Israel, sent from the Lord who commands armies, who lives on Mount Zion.

In the past he said to them, “This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.