I pray that ¹  the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, ²  may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation ³  in your growing knowledge of him, ⁴ 

rooted ¹  and built up in him and firm ²  in your ³  faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

But do not accept younger widows on the list, ¹  because their passions may lead them away from Christ ²  and they will desire to marry,

The mother who had seven children ¹  will grow faint. All the breath will go out of her. ²  Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life. It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day. ³  She will suffer shame and humiliation. ⁴  I will cause any of them who are still left alive to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies,” ⁵  says the Lord.

After noticing a fig tree ¹  by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.

I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  when you were young, you tied your clothes around you ²  and went wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and others will tie you up ³  and bring you where you do not want to go.”

When humankind ¹  began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born ²  to them, ³ 

So God treated the midwives well, ¹  and the people multiplied and became very strong.

Fish ¹  in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable ²  to drink water from the Nile.”’”

Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce ¹  from the field.

and you eat ¹  some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering ²  to the Lord.

Edom will be a possession, Seir, ¹  his enemies, will also be a possession; but Israel will act valiantly.

You must be certain to tithe ¹  all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

For their vine is from the stock ¹  of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. ²  Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter.

Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled. ¹ 

On that day the army struck down the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon, and they became very tired.

David’s power grew steadily, for the Lord God ¹  who commands armies ²  was with him. ³ 

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps ¹  and finished in the seventh month.

The hungry ¹  eat up his harvest, ²  and take it even from behind the thorns, ³  and the thirsty ⁴  swallow up ⁵  their fortune. ⁶ 

You will also know that your children ¹  will be numerous, and your descendants ²  like the grass of the earth.