The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply, you may do so from the royal treasury.

May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually, “May the Lord be praised!”

May he reign forever before God! Decree that your loyal love and faithfulness should protect him.

May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually, “May God be praised!”

I will do this so people will observe and recognize, so they will pay attention and understand that the Lord’s power has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has brought it into being.”

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.

Predict how future events will turn out, so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or bad, so we might be frightened and in awe.

He said, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand.

My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

May integrity and godliness protect me, for I rely on you!

May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth!

He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.

Deliver me from oppressive men, so that I can keep your precepts.

Now may the God of peace be with all of you. Amen.

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”

Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”