“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. ¹ 

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom ¹  with their self-imposed worship and false humility ²  achieved by an ³  unsparing treatment of the body – a wisdom with no true value – they in reality result in fleshly indulgence. ⁴ 

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than ¹  the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than ¹  the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, ¹  of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

I will teach you ¹  about the power ²  of God; What is on the Almighty’s mind ³  I will not conceal.

A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! ²  Do not be inactive, O God!

You too will act like drunkards; ¹  you will go into hiding; ²  you too will seek refuge from the enemy.

For this finds God’s favor, ¹  if because of conscience toward God ²  someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

At the end of the twelve months that were required for the women, ¹  when the turn of each young woman arrived to go to King Ahasuerus – for in this way they had to fulfill their time of cosmetic treatment: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfume and various ointments used by women –

We put all of these under divine judgment ¹  just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, ²  including women and children.

The Lord will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

Make sure you pull out ¹  ears of grain for her and drop them so she can gather them up. Don’t tell her not to!” ² 

You have seized me, ¹  and it ²  has become a witness; my leanness ³  has risen up against me and testifies against me.

“Do ¹  not judge, ²  and you will not be judged; ³  do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, ⁴  and you will be forgiven.

But the things God foretold ¹  long ago through ²  all the prophets – that his Christ ³  would suffer – he has fulfilled in this way.

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, ¹  take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name.

So I will choose severe punishment ¹  for them; I will bring on them what they dread, because I called, and no one responded, I spoke and they did not listen. They did evil before me; ²  they chose to do what displeases me.”