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¹¹For one day in your courts is better than thousands elsewhere. I have chosen to be lowly in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

¹³in the difficulties of the saints, sharing; in hospitality, attentive.

¹⁵Be solicitous in the task of presenting yourself before God as a proven and unashamed worker who has handled the Word of Truth correctly.

⁵⁸And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.

¹⁷Now the gatekeepers were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman; and their brother Shallum was the leader. ¹⁸For until that time, at the gate of the king to the east, the sons of Levi served in their turns. ¹⁹Truly, Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, with his brothers and his father’s house, these Korahites, were over the works of the ministry of keeping the vestibules of the tabernacle. And their families, in turns, were keepers of the entrance to the camp of the Lord. ²⁰Now Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, was their ruler before the Lord. ²¹But Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was the keeper of the gate of the tabernacle of the testimony. ²²All these, chosen as porters for the gates, were two hundred twelve. And they were recorded in their own towns, those whom David, and the seer Samuel, appointed, in their faith,

¹⁸and to do good, to become rich in good works, to donate readily, to share, ¹⁹to gather for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may obtain true life.

⁴“Go to Hilkiah, the high priest, so that the money may be put together which has been brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers of the temple have collected from the people.

¹My brothers, within the glorious faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, do not choose to show favoritism toward persons. ²For if a man has entered your assembly having a gold ring and splendid apparel, and if a poor man has also entered, in dirty clothing, ³and if you are then attentive to the one who is clothed in excellent apparel, so that you say to him, “You may sit in this good place,” but you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit below my footstool,” ⁴are you not judging within yourselves, and have you not become judges with unjust thoughts?

¹⁸Also, the leader of the military took away Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and three doorkeepers,

⁷Serve with good will, as to the Lord, and not to men. ⁸For you know that whatever good each one will do, the same will he receive from the Lord, whether he is servant or free.

³To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out.

⁴Truly, there are diverse graces, but the same Spirit. ⁵And there are diverse ministries, but the same Lord.

²³Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as for the Lord, and not for men. ²⁴For you know that you will receive from the Lord the repayment of an inheritance. Serve Christ the Lord.

³⁴Blessed is the man who listens to me, and who stands watch at my gates every day, and who observes at the posts of my doors.