A person’s wisdom makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, so is the one who boasts of a gift not given.

Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious person to kindle strife.

The fear of people becomes a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord will be set on high.

Whoever obeys his command will not experience harm, and a wise person knows the proper time and procedure.

He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”

There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; there they washed the burnt offering.

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

(Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him!”)

Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?”

In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

On another Sabbath, Jesus entered the synagogue and was teaching. Now a man was there whose right hand was withered.

“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.

He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.

From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?