and endurance, character, and character, hope.

trying to learn ¹  what is pleasing to the Lord.

He left those nations simply because he wanted to teach the subsequent generations of Israelites, who had not experienced the earlier battles, how to conduct holy war. ¹ 

but the one ¹  whom God raised up did not experience ²  decay.

These were the nations the Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel – he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites. ¹ 

Whoever obeys his ¹  command will not experience harm, and a wise person ²  knows the proper time ³  and procedure.

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience ¹  my joy completed ²  in themselves.

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to ¹  all the fullness of God.

My aim is to know him, ¹  to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, ²  and to be like him in his death,

I thought to myself, ¹  “I have become much wiser ²  than any of my predecessors who ruled ³  over Jerusalem; ⁴  I ⁵  have acquired much wisdom and knowledge.” ⁶ 

and the way of peace they have not known.” ¹ 

You have made your people experience hard times; ¹  you have made us drink intoxicating wine. ² 

The glory ¹  of young men is their strength, and the splendor ²  of old men is gray hair. ³ 

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, ¹  nor permit your Holy One to experience ²  decay.

Therefore he also says in another psalm, ¹  ‘You will not permit your Holy One ²  to experience ³  decay.’ ⁴ 

For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

But if you do not experience discipline, ¹  something all sons ²  have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, ¹  for I have learned by divination ²  that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”

But if we are afflicted, ¹  it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, ¹  now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, ²  so that by God’s grace he would experience ³  death on behalf of everyone.