the lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats will be for the price of a field. ¹ 

The heart of her husband has confidence ¹  in her, and he has no lack of gain. ² 

I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly, ¹  just as light is preferable to darkness:

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing. ¹ 

He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth’s leaders insignificant.

Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting. ¹ 

Look, all of them are nothing, ¹  their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance. ² 

From you, O Nineveh, ¹  one has marched forth who plots evil against the Lord, a wicked military strategist. ² 

Philip replied, ¹  “Two hundred silver coins worth ²  of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.”

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love. ¹ 

these are only ¹  the shadow of the things to come, but the reality ²  is Christ! ³ 

So as you come to him, ¹  a living stone rejected by men but ²  chosen and priceless ³  in God’s sight,

Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, ¹  I will pay you silver for it.” ² 

More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – indeed, I regard them as dung! ¹  – that I may gain Christ,

“Hear me, my lord. The land is worth ¹  400 pieces of silver, ²  but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

So Darius the king issued orders, and they searched in the archives ¹  of the treasury which were deposited there in Babylon.