Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia,

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.

For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards,

What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

Protect that good thing entrusted to you, through the Holy Spirit who lives within us.

The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

Later the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.

His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next to Egypt all the way to Asshur. They settled away from all their relatives.

Then Moses led Israel to journey away from the Red Sea. They went out to the Desert of Shur, walked for three days into the desert, and found no water.

All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

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

We even saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them.”

Then he looked on the Kenites and uttered this oracle: “Your dwelling place seems strong, and your nest is set on a rocky cliff.

I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,

For if you carefully observe all of these commandments I am giving you and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, and remain loyal to him,

When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.