A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.

Return to the stronghold, you prisoners, with hope; today I declare that I will return double what was taken from you.

“All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in a delightful land,” says the Lord who rules over all.

“But as for that day and hour no one knows it – not even the angels in heaven – except the Father alone.

Suddenly a vast, heavenly army appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

But the one who denies me before men will be denied before God’s angels.

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.

They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith.

You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist’s work, fulfill your ministry.

For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever officiated at the altar.

But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice – practices I also hate.

Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God,

Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son.

Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves.

They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.

Then Shechem’s father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah.

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.