When they had appointed elders ¹  for them in the various churches, ²  with prayer and fasting ³  they entrusted them to the protection ⁴  of the Lord in whom they had believed.

I found he ¹  was accused with reference to controversial questions ²  about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment. ³ 

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God ¹  that it will be just as I have been told.

So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, ¹  for whom Christ died, is destroyed. ² 

He ¹  delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him ²  that ³  he will deliver us yet again,

For it is not the person who commends himself who is approved, but the person the Lord commends.

When you come, bring with you the cloak I left in Troas with Carpas and the scrolls, especially the parchments.

I wanted to keep him so that he could serve me in your place ¹  during ²  my imprisonment for the sake of the gospel. ³ 

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to ¹  a different tribe, and no one from that tribe ²  has ever officiated at the altar.

Endure your suffering ¹  as discipline; ²  God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

So as you come to him, ¹  a living stone rejected by men but ²  chosen and priceless ³  in God’s sight,

(Now the betrayer ¹  had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. ²  Arrest him!”) ³ 

It is like a mustard seed ¹  that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground –

(Now the betrayer ¹  had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him and lead him away under guard.”) ² 

So Pilate spoke to them again, ¹  “Then what do you want me to do ²  with the one you call king of the Jews?”

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over ¹  to their will. ² 

John answered them, ¹  “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize, ² 

For the one whom God has sent ¹  speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly. ² 

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

“Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. ¹