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But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
