If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.

Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, show courage, be strong.

But it is God who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anointed us,

who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling,

I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.

Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth –

Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers,

that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

For he was still in his ancestor Abraham’s loins when Melchizedek met him.

a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,

but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct,

David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?”

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”

However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,