Demons also came out of many, crying out, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he is.”

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them.

by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

They said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

He declared in a loud voice: “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has arrived, and worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water!”

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

Also included were the cities set apart for the tribe of Ephraim within Manasseh’s territory, along with their towns.

He left those nations simply because he wanted to teach the subsequent generations of Israelites, who had not experienced the earlier battles, how to conduct holy war.

Let’s move the ark of our God back here, for we did not seek his will throughout Saul’s reign.”

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord’s favor in the land of the living?

May the one who comes in the name of the Lord be blessed! We will pronounce blessings on you in the Lord’s temple.

A city is exalted by the blessing provided from the upright, but it is destroyed by the counsel of the wicked.

At the fords of the Arnon the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest.

For recognition of the Lord’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.