A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools abhor turning away from evil.

A bright look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the body.

Doing wickedness is an abomination to kings, because a throne is established in righteousness.

There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.

You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

In your days of majesty, was not Sodom your sister a byword in your mouth,

Residents of Mareshah, a conqueror will attack you, the leaders of Israel shall flee to Adullam.

Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.

Now send men to Joppa and summon a man named Simon, who is called Peter.

but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.

So then, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.

If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.

who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader has fallen this day in Israel?

Then observers will say, “Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!”

“Bring a plan, make a decision! Provide some shade in the middle of the day! Hide the fugitives! Do not betray the one who tries to escape!

“If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

So the Lord’s word to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.

It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.