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.

Now don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. So how ¹  can your gods rescue ²  you from my power?’”

If the foot says, “Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

For how ¹  were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

To me – less than the least of all the saints ¹  – this grace was given, ²  to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, ¹  whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed ²  like ³  a moth?

The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. ¹  How does that benefit him? ² 

(Now Bethany was less than two miles ¹  from Jerusalem, ² 

There were also women, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, ¹  and Salome.

And if the ear says, “Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, ¹  and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. ²  To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it. ³ 

Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

The little bit that a godly man owns is better than the wealth of many evil men, ¹ 

Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. ¹ 

what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy ¹  the whole city because five are lacking?” ²  He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting. ¹ 

No widow should be put on the list ¹  unless ²  she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband, ³ 

The more years there are, ¹  the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, ²  the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of ³  produce.

He preys on ¹  the barren and childless woman, ²  and does not treat the widow well.

They were not really committed to him, ¹  and they were unfaithful to his covenant.