So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord. ¹ 

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting ¹  covenant with you.

I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Why do you force me to witness injustice? ¹  Why do you put up with wrongdoing? ²  Destruction and violence confront ³  me; conflict is present and one must endure strife. ⁴ 

For the outlook ¹  of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will ¹  die), ²  but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

For I could wish ¹  that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, ²  my fellow countrymen, ³ 

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them ¹  to sin.

Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. ¹ 

Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: ¹  Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen, “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” ¹ 

For our momentary, light suffering ¹  is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before ¹  that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you. ² 

But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should preach ¹  a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, ²  let him be condemned to hell! ³ 

far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

In this way they will save up ¹  a treasure for themselves as a firm foundation ²  for the future and so lay hold of ³  what is truly life.

and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured ¹  eternal redemption.

But when this priest ¹  had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand ²  of God,

Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! ¹  Stand firm ²  and see ³  the salvation ⁴  of the Lord that he will provide ⁵  for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again. ⁶