So now there are many members, but one body.

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.

Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.

For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory: “This is my dear Son, in whom I am delighted.”

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

We love because he loved us first.

So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth. Then ugly and painful sores appeared on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.

At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.)

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

“Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”

His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.