that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your ¹  minds ²  as expressed through ³  your evil deeds,

So ¹  in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, ²  through your faith.

For God did not destine us for wrath ¹  but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

But she will be delivered through childbearing, ¹  if she ²  continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

After God spoke long ago ¹  in various portions ²  and in various ways ³  to our ancestors ⁴  through the prophets,

so that you may not be sluggish, ¹  but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

By his will ¹  we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

Through these things ¹  the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.

He stayed there until Herod ¹  died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.” ² 

At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His ¹  disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat ²  and eat them.

“When ¹  an unclean spirit ²  goes out of a person, ³  it passes through waterless places ⁴  looking for rest but ⁵  does not find it.

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It ¹  is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

Jesus ¹  was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat ²  as they made their way.

They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be. ¹ 

Then ¹  Jesus ²  went out again from the region of Tyre ³  and came through Sidon ⁴  to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis. ⁵ 

It is easier for a camel ¹  to go through the eye of a needle ²  than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

But he saw through their hypocrisy and said ¹  to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius ²  and let me look at it.”