So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are ¹  a son, then you are also an heir through God. ² 

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, ¹  namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” ² 

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

Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that everyone will see your progress. ¹ 

They must not slander ¹  anyone, but be peaceable, gentle, showing complete courtesy to all people.

And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

Now ¹  when the Lamb ²  opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

I, the Lord, tell ¹  you not to be afraid, you descendants of Jacob, my servant, for I am with you. Though I completely destroy all the nations where I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will indeed discipline you but only in due measure. I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.” ² 

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. ¹ 

Why did you run away secretly ¹  and deceive me? ²  Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps? ³ 

and told Moses, “The people are bringing much more than ¹  is needed for the completion ²  of the work which the Lord commanded us to do!” ³ 

And he set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and put the curtain at the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

So Israel made a vow ¹  to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed deliver ²  this people into our ³  hand, then we will utterly destroy ⁴  their cities.”

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ¹  under divine judgment, ²  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Instead you must utterly annihilate them ¹  – the Hittites, ²  Amorites, ³  Canaanites, ⁴  Perizzites, ⁵  Hivites, ⁶  and Jebusites ⁷  – just as the Lord your God has commanded you,

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, ¹  until you have perished.

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

As for the Rock, ¹  his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair ²  and upright.