For we have brought nothing into this world and so ¹  we cannot take a single thing out either.

You know ¹  that such a person is twisted by sin ²  and is conscious of it himself. ³ 

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those ¹  who will inherit salvation?

For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham’s descendants.

For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really ¹  your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.” ² 

You are looking at outward appearances. ¹  If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the Lord’s doing. ¹  Our wishes are of no concern. ² 

Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me ¹  and sent me away from you.”

So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, ¹  one in whom the Spirit of God is present?” ² 

But Pharaoh replied, ¹  “You are slackers! Slackers! ²  That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

“But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, ¹  he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

All this is because of Jacob’s rebellion and ¹  the sins of the nation ²  of Israel. How has Jacob rebelled, you ask? ³  Samaria epitomizes their rebellion! ⁴  Where are Judah’s pagan worship centers, you ask? ⁵  They are right in Jerusalem! ⁶ 

and in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, because the sky is red and darkening.’ ¹  You know how to judge correctly the appearance of the sky, ²  but you cannot evaluate the signs of the times.

I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  the slave ²  is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger ³  greater than the one who sent him.

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay ¹  one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? ²