encourage your hearts and strengthen you ¹  in every good thing you do or say. ² 

that the person dedicated to God ¹  may be capable ²  and equipped for every good work.

Remind them to be subject to rulers and ¹  authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work.

Then ¹  he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

If you then, although you are evil, ¹  know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts ²  to those who ask him!

He said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Then ¹  I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It ²  had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, ³  and on its heads a blasphemous name. ⁴ 

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, ¹  Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die!

By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of Darius’ second year, ¹  the Lord spoke again to the prophet Haggai: ² 

When ¹  you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

Am I not ¹  permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ ² 

And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing ¹  the word, cling to it ²  with an honest and good ³  heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance. ⁴ 

but one thing ¹  is needed. Mary has chosen the best ²  part; it will not be taken away from her.”

Then ¹  he said, ‘I ²  will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

And I will say to myself, ¹  “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’

Nathanael ¹  replied, ²  “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” ³  Philip replied, ⁴  “Come and see.”