Trust ¹  in the Lord with all your heart, ²  and do not rely ³  on your own understanding. ⁴ 

His arms are like rods of gold set with chrysolite. His abdomen ¹  is like polished ivory inlaid with sapphires.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. ¹  Who can understand it?

Completely baffled, they said, ¹  “Aren’t ²  all these who are speaking Galileans?

But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good. ¹ 

Now he was acting as the guardian ¹  of Hadassah ²  (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, for neither her father nor her mother was alive. ³  This young woman was very attractive and had a beautiful figure. ⁴  When her father and mother died, Mordecai had raised her ⁵  as if she were his own daughter.

They worshiped ¹  Micah’s carved image ²  the whole time God’s authorized shrine ³  was in Shiloh.

For I hear what so many are saying, ¹  the terrifying news that comes from every direction. ²  When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.

‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious ¹  things which you still do not know about.’

While I, Daniel, was watching the vision, I sought to understand it. Now one who appeared to be a man was standing before me.

Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ ¹  For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down ¹  first and compute the cost ²  to see if he has enough money to complete it?

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

In him you also were circumcised – not, however, ¹  with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal ²  of the fleshly body, ³  that is, ⁴  through the circumcision done by Christ.

And he must be well thought of by ¹  those outside the faith, ²  so that he may not fall into disgrace and be caught by the devil’s trap. ³ 

This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

and he reasoned ¹  that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense ²  he received him back from there.

The combined wing span of the cherubs was 30 feet. ¹  One of the first cherub’s wings was seven and one-half feet long and touched one wall of the temple; its other wing was also seven and one-half feet long and touched one of the second cherub’s wings. ² 

Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.” ¹