Better a meal of vegetables where there is love ¹  than a fattened ox where there is hatred. ² 

The one who goes about gossiping ¹  reveals secrets; therefore do not associate ²  with someone who is always opening his mouth. ³ 

Let another ¹  praise you, and not your own mouth; ²  someone else, ³  and not your own lips.

The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest ¹  gathers it for someone who is gracious ²  to the needy.

And if anyone forces you to go one mile, ¹  go with him two.

But when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

So the disciples began to say ¹  to one another, “No one brought him anything ²  to eat, did they?” ³ 

(Now the men ¹  who were traveling with him stood there speechless, ²  because they heard the voice but saw no one.) ³ 

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, ¹  and I do not burn with indignation?

This saying ¹  is trustworthy: “If someone aspires to the office of overseer, ²  he desires a good work.”

For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven. ¹ 

If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, ¹  but be sure to help ²  him with it. ³ 

“‘If anyone dies very suddenly ¹  beside him and he defiles ²  his consecrated head, ³  then he must shave his head on the day of his purification – on the seventh day he must shave it.

Finally Saul ¹  himself went to Ramah. When he arrived at the large cistern that is in Secu, he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” They said, “At Naioth in Ramah.”

The king asked, “Is there not someone left from Saul’s family, ¹  that I may extend God’s kindness to him?” Ziba said to the king, “One of Jonathan’s sons is left; both of his feet are crippled.”

“If only I had ¹  someone to hear me! Here is my signature – ²  let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment ³  that my accuser had written. ⁴ 

For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; however, he must hand over ¹  the fruit of his labor ²  as an inheritance ³  to someone else who did not work for it. This also is futile, and an awful injustice! ⁴ 

The sick man answered him, “Sir, ¹  I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, ²  someone else ³  goes down there ⁴  before me.”

(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) ¹