This took place on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of King Darius’ second year.

They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

by truthful teaching, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,

(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.

The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.

He built fortified cities throughout Judah, for the land was at rest and there was no war during those years; the Lord gave him peace.

so I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice along with your nation, and boast along with the people who belong to you.

Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth and every garment dragged through blood is used as fuel for the fire.

Yet the children born during your time of bereavement will say within your hearing, ‘This place is too cramped for us, make room for us so we can live here.’

How, sir, am I able to speak with you? My strength is gone, and I am breathless.”

Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.

He sent letters throughout all the royal provinces, to each province according to its own script and to each people according to its own language, that every man should be ruling his family and should be speaking the language of his own people.

Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

“The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, and accomplished all his plans for the Lord’s temple and his royal palace,

“Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty.