And with this confidence I intended to come to you first so that you would get a second opportunity to see us,

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

and our Lord’s grace was abundant, bringing faith and love in Christ Jesus.

For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.

and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.

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

And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

His head and hair were as white as wool, even as white as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame.

They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.

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.

The Lord’s messenger said to Manoah, “If I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, you should offer it.” (He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the Lord’s messenger.)

Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”

So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives.

Some men from Manasseh joined David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (But in the end they did not help the Philistines because, after taking counsel, the Philistine lords sent David away, saying: “It would be disastrous for us if he deserts to his master Saul.”)

what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?” He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.

Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.