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Ask a QuestionThough Babylon reaches as high as the heavens and makes her fortifications incredibly strong, I will still send enemies to plunder her. I, the Lord , have spoken!
So the Babylonian king gave him a regular food allowance as long as he lived. This continued until the day of his death.
Our princes once glowed with health - brighter than snow, whiter than milk. Their faces were as ruddy as rubies, their appearance like fine jewels.
“Son of man, how does a grapevine compare to a tree? Is a vine’s wood as useful as the wood of a tree?
As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord , you will not quote this proverb anymore in Israel.
Then I will let the waters of Egypt become calm again, and they will flow as smoothly as olive oil, says the Sovereign Lord .
You have kept your word and done to us and our rulers exactly as you warned. Never has there been such a disaster as happened in Jerusalem.
“Look at the lilies and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.
but you don’t even know him. I know him. If I said otherwise, I would be as great a liar as you! But I do know him and obey him.
‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that?’ asks the Lord . ‘Could you build me such a resting place?
But the Lord said, “Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel.
“As I began to speak,” Peter continued, “the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as he fell on us at the beginning.
(It should be explained that all the Athenians as well as the foreigners in Athens seemed to spend all their time discussing the latest ideas.)
As soon as I have delivered this money and completed this good deed of theirs, I will come to see you on my way to Spain.
But now as the prophets foretold and as the eternal God has commanded, this message is made known to all Gentiles everywhere, so that they too might believe and obey him.
For I swear, dear brothers and sisters, that I face death daily. This is as certain as my pride in what Christ Jesus our Lord has done in you.
As for me, my life has already been poured out as an offering to God. The time of my death is near.
Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
For the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God’s laws.
They worshiped the dragon for giving the beast such power, and they also worshiped the beast. “Who is as great as the beast?” they exclaimed. “Who is able to fight against him?”