Our ¹  ancestors ²  received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, ³  until the time ⁴  of David.

When ¹  he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true ²  to the Lord with devoted hearts, ³ 

and saw the Lord ¹  saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

They know, ¹  because they have known ²  me from time past, ³  if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party ⁴  of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee. ⁵ 

For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, ¹  so that we would not trust in ourselves ²  but in God who raises the dead.

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose ¹  is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. ² 

In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us ¹  the message of reconciliation.

Now we make known to you, brothers and sisters, ¹  the grace of God given to the churches of Macedonia,

And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey ¹  the whole law.

So I say this, and insist ¹  in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility ²  of their thinking. ³ 

As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord ¹  or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by ²  God’s power accept your share of suffering ³  for the gospel.

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him ¹  or the son of man that you care for him?

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s ¹  house ²  as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle ¹  was standing.

And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.

They probed ¹  into what person or time ²  the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ ³  and his subsequent glory. ⁴ 

By this ¹  we know that we reside in God ²  and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit. ³