But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed.

Here is another way that our people can learn to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.

Now this phrase “once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice and be glad.

Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.

Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who so moved in the heart of the king to so honor the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem!

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking and in the Lord.

So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

So I perceived there is nothing better than for people to enjoy their work, because that is their reward; for who can show them what the future holds?

when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”

Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

So the cook picked up the leg and brought it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel said, “What was kept is now set before you! Eat, for it has been kept for you for this meeting time, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”

So all the skilled people who were doing all the work on the sanctuary came from the work they were doing

“So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried and they tied him up with them.