I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord!

After a priest ¹  has become ceremonially clean, they ²  must count off a period of seven days for him.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.” ¹ 

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, ¹  so that the outside may become clean too!

Listen: ¹  You will become pregnant ²  and give birth to ³  a son, and you will name him ⁴  Jesus. ⁵ 

The devil said to him, “If ¹  you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” ² 

This Jesus ¹  is the stone that was rejected by you, ²  the builders, that has become the cornerstone. ³ 

Agrippa ¹  said to Paul, “In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?” ² 

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.” ¹ 

And David says, “Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as God has shown us mercy, ¹  we do not become discouraged. ² 

Thus the law had become our guardian ¹  until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous ²  by faith.

For this is God’s will: that you become holy, ¹  that you keep away from sexual immorality,

And so, ¹  since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.” ² 

I am appealing ¹  to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become ²  during my imprisonment, ³  that is, Onesimus,

For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence ¹  firm until the end.

And since ¹  this was not done without a sworn affirmation – for the others have become priests without a sworn affirmation,

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails ¹  in one point has become guilty of all of it. ² 

Therefore we ¹  ought to support such people, so that we become coworkers in cooperation with the truth. ² 

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude ¹  of nations.”