If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

In this way they will save up a treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the future and so lay hold of what is truly life.

And entrust what you heard me say in the presence of many others as witnesses to faithful people who will be competent to teach others as well.

Here is another way that our people can learn to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.

In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

(for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)

Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,

And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming in a loud voice: “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?”

When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple.

The Lord continued, “In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind. I will destroy my people. I will kill off their children. I will do so because they did not change their behavior.

For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

One day he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants were there in the house.

collect five shekels for each one individually; you are to collect this amount in the currency of the sanctuary shekel (this shekel is twenty gerahs).

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom. He said:

That is why those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built. Let the city of Sihon be established!

Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war – who went out to battle – and the other for all the community.

I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.

In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars.

Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”