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For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.
Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
