I decided to carefully and thoroughly examine all that has been accomplished on earth. I concluded: God has given people a burdensome task that keeps them occupied.

does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

Then he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,

and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

The Lord will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

He was loyal to the Lord and did not abandon him. He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to Moses.

Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for strangers, hold him in pledge.

Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for a stranger, hold him in pledge.

Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”

When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he asked, “Who are these people with you?” Jacob replied, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you!

Look, I and the sons whom the Lord has given me are reminders and object lessons in Israel, sent from the Lord who commands armies, who lives on Mount Zion.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss.

Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told, “Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.

And another horse, fiery red, came out, and the one who rode it was granted permission to take peace from the earth, so that people would butcher one another, and he was given a huge sword.