And do not lord it over ¹  those entrusted to you, ²  but be examples to the flock.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.

I want to do what pleases you, ¹  my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.” ² 

Direct my steps by your word! ¹  Do not let any sin dominate me!

For all the nations of the world pursue ¹  these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

for before the law was given, ¹  sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin ²  when there is no law.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.

As for ¹  the woman you saw, she is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth.”

But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to ¹  forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.

For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has consumed Ar of Moab and the lords ¹  of the high places of Arnon.

The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, ¹  so the Lord turned them over to ²  Midian for seven years.

The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ¹  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

The rest of the events of Abijah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ¹  Abijah and Jeroboam had been at war with each other.

The Lord was furious with ¹  Israel and handed them over to ²  King Hazael of Syria and to Hazael’s son Ben Hadad for many years. ³ 

While applying ¹  my mind ²  to everything ³  that happens in this world, ⁴  I have seen all this: Sometimes one person ⁵  dominates ⁶  other people ⁷  to their harm. ⁸ 

“‘How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign Lord, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.

In the future ¹  the Lord’s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; ²  it will be more prominent than other hills. ³  People will stream to it.

We know that ¹  our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, ²  so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.