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Ask a QuestionAs soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me; foreigners submitted themselves cringingly and yielded feigned obedience to me.
This I have had [as the gift of Your grace and as my reward]: that I have kept Your precepts [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them].
Let us swallow them up alive as does Sheol (the place of the dead), and whole, as those who go down into the pit [of the dead];
She also lies in wait as a robber or as one waits for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.
Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest, being filled with it, you vomit it.
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yes, more excellent it is for those [the living] who see the sun.
All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are regarded by Him as less than nothing and emptiness (waste, futility, and worthlessness).
For as a young man marries a virgin [O Jerusalem], so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
And as for their appearance, they four looked alike, as if a wheel had been within a wheel.
Then will the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in ancient years.
And begged Him to let them merely touch the fringe of His garment; and as many as touched it were perfectly restored.
And some [seed] fell on the rock, and as soon as it sprouted, it withered away because it had no moisture.
When they had passed through the entire island of Cyprus as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain Jewish wizard or sorcerer, a false prophet named Bar-Jesus.
Now to a laborer, his wages are not counted as a favor or a gift, but as an obligation (something owed to him).
For sin shall not [any longer] exert dominion over you, since now you are not under Law [as slaves], but under grace [as subjects of God's favor and mercy].
It is sown a natural (physical) body; it is raised a supernatural (a spiritual) body. [As surely as] there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
For they gave me G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.respite from labor and rested me and refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Deeply appreciate and thoroughly know and fully recognize such men.
As surely as God is trustworthy and faithful and means what He says, our speech and message to you have not been Yes [that might mean] No.
For what we preach is not ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves [merely] as your servants (slaves) for Jesus' sake.
What I say by way of this confident boasting, I say not with the Lord's authority [by inspiration] but, as it were, in pure witlessness.