When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn – (Now he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph, Israel’s son. So Reuben is not listed as firstborn in the genealogical records.

So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him, “Why have you not made the Levites collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?”

He captured a young man from Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders – seventy-seven men in all.

He will lift a signal flag for the nations; he will gather Israel’s dispersed people and assemble Judah’s scattered people from the four corners of the earth.

The thigh of the contribution offering and the breast of the wave offering they must bring in addition to the gifts of the fat parts to wave them as a wave offering before the Lord, and it will belong to you and your sons with you for a perpetual statute just as the Lord has commanded.”

So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.

The officers of the units of hundreds did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported to Jehoiada the priest.

May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!”

May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

“So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt.

If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

You are to make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners.

You are to attach to it a blue cord so that it will be on the turban; it is to be on the front of the turban,

You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.

from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work in the tent of meeting.