for you were at one time darkness, but now you are ¹  light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light –

Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you ¹  about our common salvation, I now feel compelled ²  instead to write to encourage ³  you to contend earnestly ⁴  for the faith ⁵  that was once for all ⁶  entrusted to the saints. ⁷ 

He, ¹  the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.

Elisha ¹  went back and walked around in the house. ²  Then he got up on the bed again ³  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

“The trees were determined to go out ¹  and choose a king for themselves. ²  They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’ ³ 

The Lord said, ¹  “So I will now let this wicked people know – I will let them know my mighty power in judgment. Then they will know that my name is the Lord.” ² 

ה (He) Those who once feasted on delicacies ¹  are now starving to death ²  in the streets. Those who grew up ³  wearing expensive clothes ⁴  are now dying ⁵  amid garbage. ⁶ 

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: ¹  “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

“Would any one of you say ¹  to your slave ²  who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’? ³ 

Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your ¹  minds ²  as expressed through ³  your evil deeds,

Now Jacob cooked some stew, ¹  and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible. ¹ 

The one who walks blamelessly will be delivered, ¹  but whoever is perverse in his ways will fall ²  at once. ³ 

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

When Judas ¹  arrived, he went up to Jesus ²  immediately and said, “Rabbi!” and kissed ³  him.

Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast ¹  at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea. ² 

After we had safely reached shore, ¹  we learned that the island was called Malta. ² 

For indeed, what had been glorious now ¹  has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it. ² 

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, ¹  I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law. ²