So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them.

How many are my ¹  iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin. ² 

O God, you are aware of my foolish sins; ¹  my guilt is not hidden from you. ² 

I am a friend to all your loyal followers, ¹  and to those who keep your precepts.

May I be fully committed to your statutes, ¹  so that I might not be ashamed.

A faithful person ¹  will have an abundance of blessings, but the one who hastens ²  to gain riches will not go unpunished.

The produce of the land is seized ¹  by all of them, even the king is served ²  by the fields. ³ 

On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed; you go up there to offer sacrifices.

(Make the chain, ¹  because the land is full of murder ²  and the city is full of violence.)

They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.

Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct. ¹ 

When ¹  he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. ²  After he sat down his disciples came to him.

We ¹  have come to believe and to know ²  that you are the Holy One of God!” ³ 

They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, ¹  to the breaking of bread and to prayer. ² 

but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended ¹  to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters. ² 

For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all. ¹ 

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day. ¹ 

Deacons must be husbands of one wife ¹  and good managers of their children and their own households.

“‘If he cannot afford ¹  two turtledoves or two young pigeons, ²  he must bring as his offering for his sin which he has committed ³  a tenth of an ephah ⁴  of choice wheat flour ⁵  for a sin offering. He must not place olive oil on it and he must not put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.

the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing ¹  in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge ²  evil from among you.