22let’s approach God with a 10:22 Lit truesincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

23Let’s hold firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

24and let’s consider how to 10:24 Or stir upencourage one another in love and good deeds,

7Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

16We have come to know and have believed the love which God has 4:16 Lit infor us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

18There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear 4:18 Lit hasinvolves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

1If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

4Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.

7it 13:7 Lit covers all thingskeeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

14All that you do must be done in love.

22If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be 16:22 Gr anathemaaccursed. 16:22 Aramaic [Our] Lord, come!Maranatha!

24My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

1Hear my prayer, Lord,Listen to my pleadings!Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!

6I spread out my hands to You;My soul longs for You, like a weary land. Selah

11For the sake of Your name, Lord, revive me.In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.

1See 3:1 Lit what kind of lovehow great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know Him.

14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

18Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

2Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly;Be a rock of 31:2 Or refuge, protectionstrength for me,A 31:2 Lit house of a strongholdstronghold to save me.

23Love the Lord, all His godly ones!The Lord watches over the faithfulBut fully repays the one who acts arrogantly.

6A voice says, "Call out."Then 40:6 Another reading is I saidhe answered, "What shall I call out?"All flesh is grass, and all its 40:6 Or constancyloveliness is like the flower of the field.

10Behold, the Lord 40:10 Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGod will come with might,With His arm ruling for Him.Behold, His compensation is with Him,And His reward before Him.

21Do you not know? Have you not heard?Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

1One who loves 12:1 Or instructiondiscipline loves knowledge,But one who hates rebuke is stupid.

14A person will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his 12:14 Lit mouthwords,And the deeds of a person’s hands will return to him.

25Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs it down,But a good word makes it glad.

7Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,

8Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

9Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

13From there they journeyed and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

29"Woe to you, Moab!You are destroyed, people of Chemosh!He has given his sons as fugitives,And his daughters into captivity,To an Amorite king, Sihon.

31So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

5And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.

16Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the wrongdoing of the Amorite is not yet complete."

20the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Rephaim,

21the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Girgashite, and the Jebusite."

11"Then I raised up some of your sons to be prophets,And some of your young men to be Nazirites.Is this not so, you sons of Israel?" declares the Lord.

10But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I saved you from his hand.

12Then I sent the hornet before you and it 24:12 Lit drove them outdrove out the two kings of the Amorites from you—not by your sword nor your bow.

18The Lord drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve the Lord, for He is our God."

9against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of 14:9 Or nationsGoiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.

12They also took Lot, Abram’s nephew, and his possessions and departed, for he was living in Sodom.

13Then 14:13 Lit thea survivor came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was residing by the 14:13 Or terebinthsoaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and they were 14:13 Lit possessors of the covenantallies with Abram.

2Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, both the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, even as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

8in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, on the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the 12:8 I.e., South countryNegev; the Hittite, the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

8"So at that time we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the 3:8 Or wadiValley of Arnon to Mount Hermon

9(Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):

24‘Lord 3:24 Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGod, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Yours?

20And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is about to give us.

21See, the Lord your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’

28Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, by saying, "The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there." ’

14The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel 7:14 Lit savedrecovered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. So there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.