In humiliation ¹  justice was taken from him. ²  Who can describe his posterity? ³  For his life was taken away ⁴  from the earth.” ⁵ 

Is this blessedness ¹  then for ²  the circumcision ³  or also for ⁴  the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.” ⁵ 

but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

So you too consider yourselves ¹  dead to sin, but ²  alive to God in Christ Jesus.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ¹ 

God chose ¹  what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

So if you have ordinary lawsuits, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church? ¹ 

Not that we are adequate ¹  in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy ²  is from God,

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition ¹  or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

And so, ¹  since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.” ² 

But Melchizedek ¹  who does not share their ancestry ²  collected a tithe ³  from Abraham and blessed ⁴  the one who possessed the promise.

So in fact children ¹  were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand ²  on the seashore. ³ 

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

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

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, ¹  who is the Spirit of God, ²  rests ³  on you.

And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, ¹  just as also our dear brother Paul ²  wrote to you, ³  according to the wisdom given to him,

Now ¹  I heard the number of those who were marked with the seal, ²  one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed from all ³  the tribes of the people of Israel: ⁴ 

This calls for wisdom: ¹  Let the one who has insight calculate the beast’s number, for it is man’s number, ²  and his number is 666. ³ 

Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. ¹  You always made me pay for every missing animal, ²  whether it was taken by day or at night.