At the designated time ¹  Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering ²  to the Lord.

It was some time after this when the Ammonites fought with Israel.

After some time ¹  Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with ²  his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Have you suffered so many things for nothing? – if indeed it was for nothing.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

¹ During ²  that long period of time ³  the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites ⁴  groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry ⁵  because of their slave labor went up to God.

Then this Sheshbazzar went and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem. From that time to the present moment ¹  it has been in the process of being rebuilt, although it is not yet finished.’

Better is a person of humble standing ¹  who nevertheless has a servant, ²  than one who pretends to be somebody important ³  yet has no food.

As ¹  he began settling his accounts, a man who owed ten thousand talents ²  was brought to him.

For what benefit is it for a person ¹  to gain the whole world, yet ²  forfeit his life?

and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.

For what does it benefit a person ¹  if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

So neither the one who plants counts for anything, ¹  nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident. ¹ 

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. ¹  The Egyptians mourned ²  for him seventy days. ³ 

“If a thief is caught ¹  breaking in ²  and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him. ³ 

The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. ¹  The process of refining them has proved useless. ²  The wicked have not been purged.

For what does it benefit a person ¹  if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross!

since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me. ¹