Then he said to the council, “Men of Israel, pay close attention to what you are about to do to these men.

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

For members of Chloe’s household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you.

I was glad about the arrival of Stephanus, Fortunatus, and Achaicus because they have supplied the fellowship with you that I lacked.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing –

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, because you know that we will be judged more strictly.

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

The others were killed by the sword that extended from the mouth of the one who rode the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves with their flesh.

Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the enclosure. It was seven and one-half feet long, seven and one-half feet wide, and four and one-half feet high. He stood on it and then got down on his knees in front of the entire assembly of Israel. He spread out his hands toward the sky,

There was a fortified tower in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

Why are you scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’

But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.

Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing.

Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the Lord, affirm it!”’”

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.

Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,