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Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
