Children ought not to save for their parents, but parents for their children.ġ5I will most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your sakes. And I will not be a burden, for I want not what is yours, but you. g 13 * In what way were you less privileged than the rest of the churches, except that on my part I did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong! hġ4Now I am ready to come to you this third time. For I am in no way inferior to these “superapostles,” f even though I am nothing.ġ2 * The signs of an apostle were performed among you with all endurance, signs and wonders, and mighty deeds. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. d 10Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ e for when I am weak, then I am strong. b 8Three times * I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me, c 9 * but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, * in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore, that I might not become too elated, * a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, to beat me, to keep me from being too elated. But I refrain, so that no one may think more of me than what he sees in me or hears from meħbecause of the abundance of the revelations. a 5About this person * I will boast, but about myself I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.ĦAlthough if I should wish to boast, I would not be foolish, for I would be telling the truth. ![]() When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse To your tents, O Israel! Now look after your own house, David!" So Israel departed to their tents.1I * must boast not that it is profitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.ĢI know someone in Christ who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows), was caught up to the third heaven.ģAnd I know that this person (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows)Ĥwas caught up into Paradise and heard ineffable things, which no one may utter. ![]() 'Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.'" Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had directed, saying, "Return to me on the third day." The king answered the people harshly, for he forsook the advice of the elders which they had given him, and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions." So the king did not listen to the people for it was a turn of events from the LORD, that He might establish His word, which the LORD spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?" The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!' But you shall speak to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins! read more. ![]() Counsel » There being no counsel against the lordīut he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him. 'As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. ![]() 'If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death, then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play the harlot after him, by playing the harlot after Molech. 'I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "You shall also say to the sons of Israel: 'Any man from the sons of Israel or from the aliens sojourning in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech, shall surely be put to death the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
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