1 Corinthians 12:21

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

Fire came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

“If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.

But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)

David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

both low and high, rich and poor together.

He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.

But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.