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Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
