They were having a good time, ¹  when suddenly ²  some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, ³  surrounded the house and kept beating ⁴  on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, “Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.” ⁵ 

Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible ¹  goodness that you had lavished ²  on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set ³  before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

praising God and having the good will ¹  of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day ²  those who were being saved.

Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, ¹  those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer. ² 

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children ¹  of God.

All the earth worships ¹  you and sings praises to you! They sing praises to your name!” (Selah)

They ¹  were both righteous in the sight of God, following ²  all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly. ³ 

so that what you can be proud of may increase ¹  because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you. ² 

And so ¹  all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned. ² 

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

then I was ¹  beside him as a master craftsman, ²  and I was his delight ³  day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,

For in those days before the flood, people ¹  were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now ¹  receive mercy.

But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end,

So he took David ¹  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ²  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite – Recab and Baanah – went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish-bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice ¹  in the hope of God’s glory.

Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

The Lord your God will make the labor of your hands ¹  abundantly successful and multiply your children, ²  the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord your God will once more ³  rejoice over you to make you prosperous ⁴  just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,