Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,

They donated for the service of God’s temple 5,000 talents and ten thousand darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.

Now when the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and what took place, they were extremely terrified and said, “Truly this one was God’s Son!”

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God’s grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation of the true sanctuary – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.

You godly ones, rejoice in the Lord! Give thanks to his holy name.

(for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.

You said, “The Lord our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

Let us acknowledge our shame. Let us bear the disgrace that we deserve. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors. From earliest times to this very day we have not obeyed the Lord our God.’

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

and the other Eliezer (for Moses had said, “The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

He is the one you should praise; he is your God, the one who has done these great and awesome things for you that you have seen.