Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?

Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

With regard to the matter that you and I discussed, the Lord is the witness between us forever!”

They again replied, “Let the king inform us of the dream; then we will disclose its interpretation.”

Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us.

Seven women will grab hold of one man at that time. They will say, “We will provide our own food, we will provide our own clothes; but let us belong to you – take away our shame!”

Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

“And say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat.

that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.”

Moses said to the Lord, “The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us, ‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”

The Lord drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship the Lord, for he is our God!”

You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the Lord our God has driven out before us.

Saul said to his uncle, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But Saul did not tell him what Samuel had said about the matter of kingship.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”