“I have heard Moab’s taunts and the Ammonites’ insults. They taunted my people and verbally harassed those living in Judah.

“Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God.”

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

The Moabites said, “It’s blood! The kings are totally destroyed! They have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!”

saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.

You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.

For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.

But immediately Jesus spoke to them: “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.”

For we have been sold – both I and my people – to destruction and to slaughter and to annihilation! If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not have been sufficient for troubling the king.”

He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, which reaches inside behind the curtain,

Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am frail! Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking!

They will not be ashamed when hard times come; when famine comes they will have enough to eat.