Your justice endures, ¹  and your law is reliable. ² 

Your rules remain just. ¹  Give me insight so that I can live. ² 

From eternity I was appointed, ¹  from the beginning, from before the world existed. ² 

The woman called Folly ¹  is brash, ²  she is naive ³  and does not know ⁴  anything. ⁵ 

The grass dries up, the flowers wither, but the decree of our God is forever reliable.” ¹ 

Then I said, ¹  “Lord, from the very beginning you have been seated on your glorious throne on high. You are the place where we can find refuge.

The ¹  disciples were greatly astonished when they heard this and said, “Then who can be saved?” ² 

What can a person give in exchange for his life?

and all humanity ¹  will see the salvation of God.’” ² 

and they went on to another village.

but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

to do as much as your power ¹  and your plan ²  had decided beforehand ³  would happen.

So the word of the Lord was spreading ¹  through the entire region.

In this way the word of the Lord ¹  continued to grow in power ²  and to prevail. ³ 

As a result, ¹  death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. ² 

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. ¹ 

and he was designated ¹  by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek. ² 

My dynasty is approved by God, ¹  for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition. ² 

To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; ¹  all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. ²  He will receive praise forever. ³ 

For a child has been ¹  born to us, a son has been given to us. He shoulders responsibility and is called: ²  Extraordinary Strategist, ³  Mighty God, ⁴  Everlasting Father, ⁵  Prince of Peace. ⁶