“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ¹  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ²  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

But when he heard that Archelaus ¹  was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, ²  he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments ¹  to be used for unrighteousness, ²  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ³  to be used for righteousness.

From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together ¹  through every supporting ligament. ²  As each one does its part, the body grows in love.

And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents ¹  the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It ²  pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence – and is set on fire by hell. ³ 

“No,” he insisted, “but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable.” ¹ 

Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, ¹  but my face must not be seen.” ² 

Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

When you blow an alarm, ¹  then the camps that are located ²  on the east side must begin to travel. ³ 

A man with crushed ¹  or severed genitals ²  may not enter the assembly of the Lord. ³ 

The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold.

His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets. ¹ 

The Lord says, “I will retrieve them ¹  from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

I am like a foreigner in this land. ¹  Do not hide your commands from me!

For nation will rise up in arms ¹  against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines ²  and earthquakes ³  in various places.

Immediately he got into a boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha. ¹ 

Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? ¹  Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul? ² 

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison. ¹ 

In him ¹  the whole building, ²  being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

After God spoke long ago ¹  in various portions ²  and in various ways ³  to our ancestors ⁴  through the prophets,