God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

What more can David say to you? You have given your servant special recognition, O Lord God!

And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

Realize that the Lord shows the godly special favor; the Lord responds when I cry out to him.

God has countless chariots; they number in the thousands. The Lord comes from Sinai in holy splendor.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors,

One should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.

The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.

God’s Spirit energized Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the Lord? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the Lord, he has rejected you!’”

(Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple declaring to the seven angels: “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls containing God’s wrath.”

May grace and peace be lavished on you as you grow in the rich knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord!

(Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has pronounced judgment against her on your behalf!)

And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

He prayed, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.