The descendants of Jacob will enjoy their former privileges. Their community will be reestablished in my favor and I will punish all who try to oppress them.

A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord’s work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!

Then a wind came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.

does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches grew long, because of the plentiful water in its shoots.

to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.

But reports will trouble him from the east and north, and he will set out in a tremendous rage to destroy and wipe out many.

They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’

Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

A jar full of sour wine was there, so they put a sponge soaked in sour wine on a branch of hyssop and lifted it to his mouth.

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.

He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.