“I absolutely despise ¹  your festivals! I get no pleasure ²  from your religious assemblies!

They ¹  became greatly distressed ²  and each one began to say to him, “Surely not I, Lord?”

The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful. ¹ 

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, ¹  can he?” ² 

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared ¹  to the glory that will be revealed to us.

But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves. ¹ 

Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord’s Supper.

And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

¹ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn ²  over all creation, ³ 

But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment ¹  as a criminal, but God’s message ²  is not imprisoned! ³ 

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent ¹  but by the power of an indestructible life.

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

If he is too poor to pay the conversion value, he must stand the person before the priest and the priest will establish his conversion value; ¹  according to what the man who made the vow can afford, ²  the priest will establish his conversion value.

Balaam replied ¹  to the servants of Balak, “Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment ²  of the Lord my God ³  to do less or more.

¹ Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”

It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. ¹  Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough ²  to scoop a hot coal from a fire ³  or to skim off water from a cistern.” ⁴ 

The Lord says, “I will not reject all the descendants of Israel because of all that they have done. ¹  That could only happen if the heavens above could be measured or the foundations of the earth below could all be explored,” ²  says the Lord. ³ 

Foreigners living there will say, ¹  ‘We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed. Let’s leave Babylonia ²  and each go back to his own country. For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions. It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.’ ³ 

Amaziah the priest of Bethel ¹  sent this message ²  to King Jeroboam of Israel: “Amos is conspiring against you in the very heart of the kingdom of Israel! ³  The land cannot endure all his prophecies. ⁴