I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ.

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

I want you to recall both the predictions foretold by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

and saying, “Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”

Then the priest must remove its entrails by cutting off its tail feathers, and throw them to the east side of the altar into the place of fatty ashes,

His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.

Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. You will take turns guarding the palace.

“People of Babylonia, you plundered my people. That made you happy and glad. You frolic about like calves in a pasture. Your joyous sounds are like the neighs of a stallion.

‘No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder – a girl or two for each man to rape! Sisera is grabbing up colorful cloth, he is grabbing up colorful embroidered cloth, two pieces of colorful embroidered cloth, for the neck of the plunderer!’

But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him kindness. He granted him favor in the sight of the prison warden.

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.

So they approached the man who was in charge of Joseph’s household and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

They set on it four rows of stones: a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl – the first row;

They said to the whole community of the Israelites, “The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.

Then the angel of the Lord stood in a path among the vineyards, where there was a wall on either side.

Why do you frustrate the intent of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the Lord has given them?

He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.

So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (For that reason Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this very day.)

He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule.

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. He did not seek the Baals,