Now in those days, when the disciples were growing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Hebraic Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

And Jesus who is called Justus also sends greetings. In terms of Jewish converts, these are the only fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.

and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,

You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it on the earth, and there were crashes of thunder, roaring, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself.”

But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian – the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham – mocking.

That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

So he said to them, “Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?” “We know him,” they said.

He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

The Lord was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master.

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, not even under force.

On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing.