For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed – God is our witness –

But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Everyone with me greets you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.

We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day when I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

“A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Edomites off their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me, and there is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler who can stand up against me.

Then you responded to me and admitted, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will now go up and fight as the Lord our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.

Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known,

However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!

The rams’ horns sounded and when the army heard the signal, they gave a loud battle cry. The wall collapsed and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.

She said, “I will indeed go with you. But you will not gain fame on the expedition you are undertaking, for the Lord will turn Sisera over to a woman.” Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.