The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius, treating Paul kindly, allowed him to go to his friends so they could provide him with what he needed.

Now in the region around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably as guests for three days.

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.

I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.

For the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, has planned a day of panic, defeat, and confusion. In the Valley of Vision people shout and cry out to the hill.

I will establish his kingdom permanently, if he remains committed to obeying my commands and regulations, as you are doing this day.’

The king says, “I will announce the Lord’s decree. He said to me: ‘You are my son! This very day I have become your father!

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I have not done you wrong, but you are doing wrong by attacking me. May the Lord, the Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites!’”

When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.

That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.

In the same way that I valued your life this day, may the Lord value my life and deliver me from all danger.”

Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord.

Then he said, “May God judge me severely if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!”

By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God.

A psalm; a song for the Sabbath day. It is fitting to thank the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O sovereign One!

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.