Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord than all who were before him.

If you sin, how does it affect God? ¹  If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him? ² 

Excessive ¹  speech ²  is not becoming for a fool; ³  how much less are lies ⁴  for a ruler! ⁵ 

Starting a quarrel ¹  is like letting out water; ²  stop it before strife breaks out! ³ 

Luxury is not appropriate ¹  for a fool; ²  how much less for a servant to rule over princes! ³ 

lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, ¹  and turn his wrath away from him. ² 

But she increased her prostitution. She saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans carved in bright red, ¹ 

Now the law came in ¹  so that the transgression ²  may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, ¹  and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

Then ¹  seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows ²  as these in all the land of Egypt!

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down ¹  about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred ²  in Egypt from the day it was founded ³  until now.

There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, ¹  nor ever will be again. ² 

For their vine is from the stock ¹  of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. ²  Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter.

Wherever you die, I will die – and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I do not keep my promise! ¹  Only death will be able to separate me from you!” ² 

I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! ¹  But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!”

Judah did evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. ² 

But Manasseh misled the people of ¹  Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod (or the language of one of the other peoples mentioned ¹ ) and were unable to speak the language of Judah.