Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, ¹  for anger resides in the lap ²  of fools.

The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, ¹  how beautiful you are, my beloved! ²  Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes ³  are like doves! ⁴ 

The Lover to His Beloved: My lover spoke to me, saying: “Arise, my darling; My beautiful one, come away with me!

The Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, ¹  my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ ¹  and ‘hate your enemy.’

Watch ¹  yourselves! If ²  your brother ³  sins, rebuke him. If ⁴  he repents, forgive him.

So the sisters sent a message ¹  to Jesus, ²  “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”

Then ¹  I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate ²  to be with you forever –

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant ¹  of the church in Cenchrea,

From Paul, ¹  called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus ²  by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother,

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline ¹  or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, ¹  for whom Christ died, is destroyed. ² 

If you sin against your brothers or sisters ¹  in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ. ¹ 

I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’” ¹ 

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Now Herod ¹  was having an angry quarrel ²  with the people of Tyre ³  and Sidon. ⁴  So they joined together ⁵  and presented themselves before him. And after convincing ⁶  Blastus, the king’s personal assistant, ⁷  to help them, ⁸  they asked for peace, ⁹  because their country’s food supply was provided by the king’s country.

At that time Judah left ¹  his brothers and stayed ²  with an Adullamite man ³  named Hirah.

But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him kindness. ¹  He granted him favor in the sight of the prison warden. ²