Then Moses replied, ¹  “If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the Lord,

The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe ¹  of Benjamin, saying, “How could such a wicked thing take place? ² 

“So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.

Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’” ¹ 

For the very thing I dreaded ¹  has happened ²  to me, and what I feared has come upon me. ³ 

But now the same thing ¹  comes to you, and you are discouraged; ²  it strikes you, and you are terrified. ³ 

if I looked at the sun ¹  when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

The one whose appetite ¹  is satisfied loathes honey, but to the hungry mouth ²  every bitter thing is sweet.

Wisdom, like ¹  an inheritance, is a good thing; it benefits those who see the light of day. ² 

I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

Now ¹  someone came up to him and said, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to gain eternal life?”

So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same thing once more.

but one thing ¹  is needed. Mary has chosen the best ²  part; it will not be taken away from her.”

So if ¹  you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about ²  the rest?

All things were created ¹  by him, and apart from him not one thing was created ²  that has been created. ³ 

“While doing this very thing, ¹  as I was going ²  to Damascus with authority and complete power ³  from the chief priests,

They requested ¹  only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

For ¹  neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for ²  anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation! ³ 

For we have brought nothing into this world and so ¹  we cannot take a single thing out either.