“No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, ¹  can he?” ² 

but since it concerns points of disagreement ¹  about words and names and your own law, settle ²  it yourselves. I will not be ³  a judge of these things!”

But because of your stubbornness ¹  and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! ² 

So the person who resists such authority ¹  resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering ¹  and they have not known my ways.’

But whoever has the world’s possessions ¹  and sees his fellow Christian ²  in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God ³  reside ⁴  in such a person? ⁵ 

The second beast ¹  was empowered ²  to give life ³  to the image of the first beast ⁴  so that it could speak, and could cause all those who did not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

But if her father overrules her when he hears ¹  about it, then none ²  of her vows or her obligations which she has pledged for herself will stand. And the Lord will release ³  her from it, because her father overruled her.

Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude ¹  be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite ²  and you do not lend ³  him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. ⁴ 

Then the king said to the messengers ¹  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided ²  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm ³  the priests of the Lord.

So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, ¹  “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” ²  He lay down on his bed, pouted, ³  and would not eat.

But ¹  the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live. ² 

Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, ¹  and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

But Pharaoh hardened ¹  his heart this time also and did not release the people.

You are still exalting ¹  yourself against my people by ²  not releasing them.

When the people heard this troubling word ¹  they mourned; ²  no one put on his ornaments.

But the hide of the bull, all its flesh along with its head and its legs, its entrails, and its dung –

“‘If in spite of this ¹  you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me, ² 

Then Moses summoned ¹  Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come up. ²