that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

Asa prayed to the Lord his God: “O Lord, there is no one but you who can help the weak when they are vastly outnumbered. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you and have marched on your behalf against this huge army. O Lord our God, don’t let men prevail against you!”

The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

Then I saw another great and astounding sign in heaven: seven angels who have seven final plagues (they are final because in them God’s anger is completed).

Solomon worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte and the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

Let the godly rejoice because of their vindication! Let them shout for joy upon their beds!

Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you? – majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, working wonders?

No one is holy like the Lord! There is no one other than you! There is no rock like our God!

For the music director; by David, a psalm, a song. God springs into action! His enemies scatter; his adversaries run from him.

He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the Lord our God will destroy them.

For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.

Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.

If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,