but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

When Eli heard the outcry, he said, “What is this commotion?” The man quickly came and told Eli.

For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

One dead fly makes the perfumer’s ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.

Who is the Lord trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!

They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.

But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord’s name for you is not ‘Pashhur’ but ‘Terror is Everywhere.’

When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we don’t serve your gods, and we will not pay homage to the golden statue that you have erected.”

If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the Lord not responsible?

But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain.

That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

and they said, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

You people are doing the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things

But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.