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⁹He, knowing that the sons to be born would not be his, when he entered to the wife of his brother, he spilled his seed on the ground, lest children should be born in his brother’s name. ¹⁰And for this reason, the Lord struck him down, because he did a detestable thing.

²⁸And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

⁵Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence.

³⁶How foolish! What you sow cannot be brought back to life, unless it first dies.

¹Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. ²Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth. ³For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. ⁵Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols, ⁶the wrath of God has overwhelmed the sons of unbelief.

⁴May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

¹⁵Yet she will be saved by bearing children, if she has continued in faith and love, and in sanctification accompanied by self-restraint.

⁹But if they cannot restrain themselves, they should marry. For it is better to marry, than to be burned.

²³For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁸For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, the very Molder of it. He did not create it to no purpose. He formed it so that it would be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

¹Hear this, priests, and pay attention, house of Israel, and listen closely, house of the king. For there is a judgment against you, because you have become a trap for those you watched over, and a net stretched out over Tabor. ²And you have led astray victims into the depths, though I am the teacher of them all. ³I know Ephraim, and Israel has not been hidden from me, yet now Ephraim has committed fornication, and Israel has been contaminated. ⁴They will not set their thoughts to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord. ⁵And the arrogance of Israel will answer to his face. And Israel and Ephraim will fall in their iniquity, and even Judah will fall with them. ⁶With their flocks and their herds, they will go to seek the Lord, and they will not find him. He has taken himself away from them.

²¹The lips of the just instruct many. But those who are unlearned shall die in destitution of heart. ²²The blessing of the Lord causes riches. Affliction will not be a companion to them. ²³The foolish work wickedness as if in jest. But wisdom is prudence to a man. ²⁴What the impious fear will overwhelm them. The just shall be given their desire. ²⁵Like a passing tempest, so the impious one will be no more. But the just one is like an everlasting foundation. ²⁶Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is a lazy one to those who sent him.

¹After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go and show yourself to Ahab, so that I may grant rain upon the face of the earth.” ²Therefore, Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. For there was a severe famine in Samaria. ³And Ahab called Obadiah, the manager of his household. Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly. ⁴For when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord, he took one hundred prophets, and concealed them, fifty and fifty, in caves. And he fed them with bread and water. ⁵Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all the valleys, for perhaps we will be able to find plants, and save the horses and mules, so that the beasts of burden may not perish entirely.” ⁶And they divided the regions among themselves, so that they might travel through them. Ahab went one way alone, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

³The Lord will not afflict with famine the soul of the just, and he will overthrow the treacheries of the impious.

¹Then Samuel took a little vial of oil, and poured it on his head. And he kissed him, and said: “Behold, the Lord has anointed you as first ruler over his inheritance. And you shall free his people from the hands of their enemies, who are all around them. And this shall be a sign for you that God has anointed you as ruler:

¹And again, the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. And he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years. ²Now there was a certain man from Zorah, and of the stock of Dan, whose name was Manoah, having a barren wife. ³And an Angel of the Lord appeared to her, and he said: “You are barren and without children. But you shall conceive and bear a son. ⁴Therefore, take care that you do not drink wine or strong drink. Neither shall you eat anything unclean. ⁵For you shall conceive and bear a son, whose head no razor shall touch. For he shall be a Nazirite of God, from his infancy and from his mother’s womb. And he shall begin to free Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” ⁶And when she had gone to her husband, she said to him: “A man of God came to me, having the countenance of an Angel, exceedingly terrible. And when I had inquired of him, who he was, and where he was from, and what name he was called, he was not willing to tell me.

⁵Build houses and live in them. And plant gardens, and eat from their fruit. ⁶Take wives, and conceive sons and daughters. And give wives to your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters. And be multiplied there, and do not choose to be few in number.

⁹If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

⁶The justice of the upright shall free them. And the iniquitous will be seized by their own treachery.

¹And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ²“Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations. ³And you shall say: Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your root and your lineage is from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Cethite. ⁴And when you were born, on the day of your nativity, your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were not washed with water for health, nor salted with salt, nor wrapped with cloths. ⁵No eye took pity on you, so as to do even one of these things to you, out of compassion for you. Instead, you were cast upon the face of the earth, in the abjection of your soul, on the day when you were born. ⁶But, passing by you, I saw that you were wallowing in your own blood. And I said to you, when you were in your blood: ‘Live.’ I tell you that I said to you, in your blood: ‘Live.’

¹⁹And praise will go forth from them, with the voice of those who play. And I will multiply them, and they will not be lessened. And I will glorify them, and they will not be weakened.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, ²⁰the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, ²¹envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

¹⁴You shall not commit adultery.

¹About the same time, Judah, descending from his brothers, turned toward an Adullamite man, named Hirah. ²And he saw there the daughter of a man called Shua, of Canaan. And taking her as a wife, he entered to her. ³And she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Er. ⁴And conceiving offspring again, having given birth to a son, she called him Onan. ⁵Likewise, she bore a third, whom she called Shelah, after whose birth, she ceased to bear any more. ⁶Then Judah gave a wife to his first born Er, whose name was Tamar.

¹For behold, the sovereign Lord of hosts will take away, from Jerusalem and from Judah, the powerful and the strong: all the strength from bread, and all the strength from water; ²the strong man, and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the seer and the elder; ³the leader over fifty and the honorable in appearance; and the counselor, and the wise among builders, and the skillful in mystical speech. ⁴And I will provide children as their leaders, and the effeminate will rule over them. ⁵And the people will rush, man against man, and each one against his neighbor. The child shall rebel against the elder, and the ignoble against the noble. ⁶For a man will apprehend his brother, from the household of his own father, saying: “The vestment is yours. Be our leader, but let this ruin be under your hand.”

²⁸In a multitude of people, there is dignity for the king. And in a paucity of people, there is disgrace for the prince.

¹⁰Yet truly, the brothers promptly sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. And when they had arrived, they entered the synagogue of the Jews. ¹¹But these were more noble than those who were at Thessalonica. They received the Word with all enthusiasm, daily examining the Scriptures to see if these things were so.

⁸Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these. ⁹All the things that you have learned and accepted and heard and seen in me, do these. And so shall the God of peace be with you.

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: “Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

¹For I want you to know the kind of solicitude that I have for you, and for those who are at Laodicea, as well as for those who have not seen my face in the flesh. ²May their hearts be consoled and instructed in charity, with all the riches of a plenitude of understanding, with knowledge of the mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus. ³For in him are hidden all treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴Now I say this, so that no one may deceive you with grandiose words. ⁵For though I may be absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit. And I rejoice as I gaze upon your order and its foundation, which is in Christ, your faith. ⁶Therefore, just as you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, walk in him.