4Show me how you work, …

5Take me by the hand;

6Mark the milestones of your mercy and love, God;

12About our friend Apollos, I’ve …

13,14Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you’ve got, be resolute, and love without stopping.

6-8 If you preach, just preach …

9,10Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.

5,6Oh! Give me something refreshing to eat—and quickly!

1If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

2If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

4-6My dear children, you come …

7-10My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.

11,12My dear, dear friends, if …

2God made history with salvation,

3He remembered to love us, a bonus

4Shout your praises to God, everybody!

1I went to my garden, dear friend, best lover!

2I was sound asleep, but …

1After all these things, this word of God came to Abram in a vision: "Don’t be afraid, Abram. I’m your shield. Your reward will be grand!"

2,3Abram said, "God, Master, what …

6-8God’s Message:

9-11"In contrast, I was always on your side.

23-27But Sihon wouldn’t let Israel …

28,29Fire once poured out of Heshbon,

3-5After him, Jair the Gileadite …

6-8And then the People of Israel went back to doing evil in God’s sight. They worshiped the Baal gods and Ashtoreth goddesses: gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab; gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They just walked off and left God, quit worshiping him. And God exploded in hot anger at Israel and sold them off to the Philistines and Ammonites, who, beginning that year, bullied and battered the People of Israel mercilessly. For eighteen years they had them under their thumb, all the People of Israel who lived east of the Jordan in the Amorite country of Gilead.

9Then the Ammonites crossed the …

2-6 "This is what God, the …

7-10"Then they cried out for help to God. He put a cloud between you and the Egyptians and then let the sea loose on them. It drowned them.

11"You then crossed the Jordan …

1These are the kings that …

2,3Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned from Heshbon: His rule extended from Aroer, which sits at the edge of the Arnon Gorge, from the middle of the gorge and over half of Gilead to the Gorge of the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. His rule included the eastern Arabah Valley from the Sea of Kinnereth to the Arabah Sea (the Salt Sea), eastward toward Beth Jeshimoth and southward to the slopes of Pisgah.

1,2Then this: Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim went off to war to fight Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, that is, Zoar.

3Moses said, "What’s going on …

4God saw that he had stopped to look. God called to him from out of the bush, "Moses! Moses!"

5God said, "Don’t come any closer. Remove your sandals from your feet. You’re standing on holy ground."

4-6"The Day is coming when …

7,8Yes, the Day is coming when people will notice The One Who Made Them, take a long hard look at The Holy of Israel. They’ll lose interest in all the stuff they’ve made—altars and monuments and rituals, their homemade, handmade religion—however impressive it is.

11Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter from …

12,13Then Solomon offered Whole-Burnt-Offerings to God on the Altar of God that he had built in front of The Temple porch. He kept to the regular schedule of worship set down by Moses: Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual feasts of Unraised Bread (Passover), Weeks (Pentecost), and Booths.

13Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s …

14,15When she arrived she got him

5He said:

6-8Back at Horeb, God, our …