Pack your bags for exile, you inhabitants of poor dear Egypt. For Memphis will be laid waste. It will lie in ruins and be uninhabited.

The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia a wasteland where no one lives.

Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.

“Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.

“You, O king, were watching as a great statue – one of impressive size and extraordinary brightness – was standing before you. Its appearance caused alarm.

At that time,” the Lord says, “I will destroy the wise sages of Edom! the advisers from Esau’s mountain!

Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

Jesus replied, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me.”

Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

And every day both in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus was the Christ.

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” for about two hours.

Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important for your survival. For not one of you will lose a hair from his head.”

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in every respect, not only when they are watching – like those who are strictly people-pleasers – but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.