Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.

On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone –

For no one can eat and drink or experience joy apart from him.

Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.

Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him?

But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the elite warriors, or his brother Solomon.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more – or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.”

Paul said in his defense, “I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar.”

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings.

How blessed is the one who does not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand in the pathway with sinners, or sit in the assembly of scoffers!

Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

“You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.

Is my strength like that of stones? or is my flesh made of bronze?

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

I will not allow my eyes to sleep, or my eyelids to slumber,

Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow, so is the one who testifies against his neighbor as a false witness.