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Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
