After he said, “From foreigners,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons ¹  are free.

The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary ¹  and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.

King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹  King Asa used the materials to build up ²  Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

Gather the people; sanctify an assembly! Gather the elders; gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her private quarters. ¹ 

These were the family leaders of the Levites, as listed in their genealogical records. They lived in Jerusalem.

So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine ¹  from their diet ²  and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.

He will extend his power ¹  against other lands; the land of Egypt will not escape.

But if you do not experience discipline, ¹  something all sons ²  have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

“Only the tribe of Levi ¹  you must not number ²  or count ³  with ⁴  the other Israelites.

The Lord saw Israel’s intense suffering; ¹  everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer. ² 

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.

The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so ¹  to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”

So Joseph made it a statute, ¹  which is in effect ²  to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

But Daniel made up his mind ¹  that he would not defile ²  himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. ³  He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself.

But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,” ¹ 

But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’ ¹  (that is, a gift for God),

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people ¹  because ²  all sinned –

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

I am as full of anger as you are, Lord, ¹  I am tired of trying to hold it in.” The Lord answered, ²  “Vent it, then, ³  on the children who play in the street and on the young men who are gathered together. Husbands and wives are to be included, ⁴  as well as the old and those who are advanced in years.