For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated ¹  –

Before they even call out, ¹  I will respond; while they are still speaking, I will hear.

He has obstructed my paths ¹  and torn me to pieces; ²  he has made me desolate.

So I said, “My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance ¹  from the Lord.”

Yet I had pity on ¹  them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel! ¹ 

And if Satan rises against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand and his end has come.

Then ¹  they returned and prepared aromatic spices ²  and perfumes. ³  On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. ⁴ 

When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, ¹  they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat ²  into the sea.

So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked, ¹  “Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past – both yesterday and today?” ² 

So Ruth ¹  worked beside ²  Boaz’s female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest. ³  After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law. ⁴ 

The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded ¹  in the Annals of Nathan the Prophet, the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and the Vision of Iddo the Seer pertaining to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

The events of Rehoboam’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded ¹  in the Annals of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that include genealogical records.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward ¹  to heaven ²  and said, “Father, the time ³  has come. Glorify your Son, so that your ⁴  Son may glorify you –

So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you ¹  made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,

So, since Christ suffered ¹  in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin, ² 

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he ¹  said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is stirred up ²  against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, ³  as my servant Job has.