(4:14) ¹  But now slash yourself, ²  daughter surrounded by soldiers! ³  We are besieged! With a scepter ⁴  they strike Israel’s ruler ⁵  on the side of his face.

Listen to what the Lord says: “Get up! Defend yourself ¹  before the mountains! ²  Present your case before the hills!” ³ 

“Whoever, then, acknowledges ¹  me before people, I will acknowledge ²  before my Father in heaven.

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

While the people were filled with anticipation ¹  and they all wondered ²  whether perhaps John ³  could be the Christ, ⁴ 

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant ¹  of David ²  and comes from Bethlehem, ³  the village where David lived?” ⁴ 

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, ¹  for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

David by foreseeing this ¹  spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, ²  that he was neither abandoned to Hades, ³  nor did his body ⁴  experience ⁵  decay. ⁶ 

While they were trying ¹  to kill him, a report ²  was sent up ³  to the commanding officer ⁴  of the cohort ⁵  that all Jerusalem was in confusion. ⁶ 

And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

So the person who resists such authority ¹  resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

But our citizenship is in heaven – and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds ¹  in Christ Jesus.

Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body ¹  to this peace), and be thankful.

Tychicus, a dear brother, faithful minister, and fellow slave ¹  in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me. ² 

He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant ¹  and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact. ² 

Dear friends, this is already the second letter I have written ¹  you, in which ²  I am trying to stir up ³  your pure mind by way of reminder:

Then ¹  Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death – the lake of fire.

Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, ¹  if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate ²  to the Lord while he is impure, ³  that person must be cut off from before me. ⁴  I am the Lord.