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Then the men of David said to him, "This is the day of which the LORD said to you, 'Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you.' " And David arose and secretly cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David. For I will harm you no more, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Indeed I have played the fool and erred exceedingly."
And David said to Abishai and all his servants, "See how my son who came from my own body seeks my life. How much more now may this Benjamite? Let him alone, and let him curse; for so the LORD has ordered him.
"Then death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them," says the LORD of hosts.
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun.
"For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
"For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself,
"Come, please, let me now give you advice, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
"So when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hands and crossed over against the people of Ammon; and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?"
And he said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD."
With Your hand from men, O LORD, From men of the world who have their portion in this life, And whose belly You fill with Your hidden treasure. They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their possession for their babes.
So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
"Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life,
For strangers have risen up against me, And oppressors have sought after my life; They have not set God before them. Selah
"Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?
that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,