just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you –

So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! For everything belongs to you,

For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you – it has not proven to be purposeless.

Such prayer for all is good and welcomed before God our Savior,

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.

For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

Then Abner spoke privately with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to.

He did what the Lord approved, but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash.

Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

May those who desire my vindication shout for joy and rejoice! May they continually say, “May the Lord be praised, for he wants his servant to be secure.”

Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

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

We know our noisy worship of false gods on the hills and mountains did not help us. We know that the Lord our God is the only one who can deliver Israel.

I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.

I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders.”

And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, just as you are living according to the truth.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.