Now the works of the flesh ¹  are obvious: ²  sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

For this reason I ask you ¹  not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, ²  which ³  is your glory. ⁴ 

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. ¹ 

So when we could bear it no longer, we decided to stay on in Athens ¹  alone.

As I remember your tears, I long to see you, ¹  so that I may be filled with joy.

Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than ¹  what I am asking you to do.

By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, ¹  for without it no one will see the Lord.

For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.

And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

I wrote something to the church, ¹  but Diotrephes, ²  who loves to be first among them, does not acknowledge us. ³ 

I ¹  have given her time to repent, but ²  she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

Then ¹  the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo ²  any longer –

Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his ¹  enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

God said to Solomon, “Because you desire this, ¹  and did not ask for riches, wealth, and honor, or for vengeance on your enemies, ²  and because you did not ask for long life, ³  but requested wisdom and discernment so you can make judicial decisions for my people over whom I have made you king,

For see what this very thing, this sadness ¹  as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, ²  what indignation, ³  what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, ⁴  what punishment! ⁵  In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

They were shown ¹  that they were serving not themselves but you, in regard to the things now announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven – things angels long to catch a glimpse of.

Now I understand that ¹  you have gone away ²  because you longed desperately ³  for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?” ⁴ 

But Hamor made this appeal to them: “My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. ¹  Please give her to him as his wife.

But if the servant should declare, ¹  ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out ²  free,’