Endure your suffering ¹  as discipline; ²  God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

¹ The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you treating ²  your servants this way?

And the landowner ¹  replied to one of them, ²  ‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage? ³ 

You are offering improper sacrifices on my altar, yet you ask, ‘How have we offended you?’ By treating the table ¹  of the Lord as if it is of no importance!

The next day we put in ¹  at Sidon, ²  and Julius, treating Paul kindly, ³  allowed him to go to his friends so they could provide him with what he needed. ⁴ 

Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge ¹  of the whole earth do what is right?” ² 

I said, ¹  “Oh, mother, how I regret ²  that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. ³  I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.” ⁴ 

You must not rule over him harshly, ¹  but you must fear your God.

The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they ¹  treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

How blessed are those who promote justice, and do what is right all the time!

But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

but in every nation ¹  the person who fears him ²  and does what is right ³  is welcomed before him.

But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters! ¹ 

There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, ¹  but the God of my father has been with me.

You must not curse a deaf person or put a stumbling block in front of a blind person. ¹  You must fear ²  your God; I am the Lord.

They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it ¹  and therefore die ²  because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep ¹  all my commandments and you break my covenant –

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, ¹  dressing him in elegant clothes, ²  Herod ³  sent him back to Pilate.

But the man who was unfairly hurting his neighbor pushed ¹  Moses ²  aside, saying, ‘Who made ³  you a ruler and judge over us?