For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by God’s power accept your share of suffering for the gospel.

Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

“Then the king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every deity and he will utter presumptuous things against the God of gods. He will succeed until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must occur.

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

Both you and your families must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

When you make a vow to the Lord your God you must not delay in fulfilling it, for otherwise he will surely hold you accountable as a sinner.

God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

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

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!”

Worthy of praise is the Most High God, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

“God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.