With bow and arrow ¹  men will hunt ²  there, for the whole land will be covered ³  with thorns and briers.

Then if ¹  it bears fruit next year, ²  very well, ³  but if ⁴  not, you can cut it down.’”

So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. ¹  Then resume your relationship, ²  so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But Rebekah’s ¹  brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.”

“I left secretly because I was afraid!” ¹  Jacob replied to Laban. “I thought ²  you might take your daughters away from me by force. ³ 

“If Esau attacks one camp,” ¹  he thought, ²  “then the other camp will be able to escape.” ³ 

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, ¹  for he said, ²  “What if some accident ³  happens ⁴  to him?”

May the Lord judge between the two of us, and may the Lord vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.

Don’t let the current overpower me! Don’t let the deep swallow me up! Don’t let the pit ¹  devour me! ² 

When someone’s ¹  prosperity ²  increases, those who consume it also increase; so what does its owner ³  gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes? ⁴ 

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

So the Jewish leaders ¹  began to say, ²  “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more ¹  to anyone in this name.”

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. ¹ 

Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself ¹  so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed ²  the gospel of God to you free of charge?

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see ¹  my father’s pain.” ²