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Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, so that the land could not support them if they stayed together; their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.
[GEN 13:5-6]
Their possessions had become too great for them
to dwell together, and the land in which they were staying could
not support them because of their livestock. [GEN 36:7]
And Joseph sustained his father and brothers and
his father's whole household, down to the youngest, with food.
[GEN 47:12]
At Rephidim, Amalek came and waged war against
Israel. Moses, therefore, said to Joshua, "Pick out certain
men, and tomorrow go out and engage Amalek in battle. I will be
standing on top of the hill with the staff of God in my
hand." So Joshua did as Moses told him: he engaged Amalek in
battle after Moses had climbed to the top of the hill with Aaron
and Hur. As long as Moses kept his hands raised up, Israel had the
better of the fight, but when he let his hands rest, Amalek had
the better of the fight. Moses' hands, however, grew tired; so
they put a rock in place for him to sit on. Meanwhile Aaron and
Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, so
that his hands remained steady till sunset. [EX 17:8-12]
Cast four gold rings and fasten them on the four
supports of the ark, two rings on one side and two on the opposite
side. [EX 25:12]
Samson said to the attendant who was holding his
hand, "Put me where I may touch the columns that support the
temple and may rest against them." The temple was full of men
and women: all the lords of the Philistines were there, and from
the roof about three thousand men and women looked on as Samson
provided amusement. Samson cried out to the LORD and said, "O
Lord GOD, remember me! Strengthen me, O God, this last time that
for my two eyes I may avenge myself once and for all on the
Philistines." Samson grasped the two middle columns on which
the temple rested and braced himself against them, one at his
right hand, the other at his left. And Samson said, "Let me
die with the Philistines!" He pushed hard, and the temple
fell upon the lords and all the people who were in it. Those he
killed at his death were more than those he had killed during his
lifetime. [JUDG 16:26-30]
Then the women said to Naomi, "Blessed is the LORD who has not failed to provide you today with an heir! May he become famous in Israel!
He will be your comfort and the support of your old age, for his mother is the daughter-in-law who loves you. She is worth more to you than seven sons!"
[RUTH 4:15]
He rescued me from my mighty enemy, from my foes, who were too powerful for me.
They attacked me on my day of calamity, but the LORD came to my support.
[2SAM 22:14-19]
Adonijah, son of Haggith, began to display his
ambition to be king. He acquired chariots, drivers, and fifty
henchmen. Yet his father never rebuked him or asked why he was
doing this. Adonijah was also very handsome, and next in age to
Absalom by the same mother. He conferred with Joab, son of
Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest, and they supported him.
However, Zadok the priest, Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, Nathan the
prophet, and Shimei and his companions, the pick of David's army,
did not side with Adonijah. [1KGS 1:5-8]
His own palace Solomon completed after thirteen years of construction. He built the hall called the Forest of Lebanon one hundred cubits long, fifty wide, and thirty high; it was supported by four rows of cedar columns, with cedar capitals upon the columns.
[1KGS 7:1-2]
On the surfaces of the supports and on the
panels, wherever there was a clear space, cherubim, lions, and
palm trees were carved, as well as wreaths all around. [1KGS 7:36]
Hiram's fleet, which used to bring gold from
Ophir, also brought from there a large quantity of cabinet wood
and precious stones. With the wood the king made supports for the
temple of the LORD and for the palace of the king, and harps and
lyres for the chanters. No more such wood was brought or seen to
the present day. [1KGS 10:11-12]
"Know that not a single word which the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab shall go unfulfilled. The LORD has accomplished all that he foretold through his servant Elijah."
Thereupon Jehu slew all who were left of the family of Ahab in Jezreel, as well as all his powerful supporters, intimates, and priests, leaving him no survivor.
[Taken from 2KGS 10:10-11]
These were David's chief warriors who, together
with all Israel, supported him in his reign in order to make him
true king, even as the LORD had commanded concerning Israel.
[1CHRON 11:10]
He also commanded the people living in Jerusalem
to provide the support of the priests and Levites, that they might
devote themselves entirely to the law of the LORD. [2CHRON 31:4]
When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was coming
with the intention of attacking Jerusalem, he decided in counsel
with his princes and warriors to stop the waters of the springs
outside the city. When they had pledged him their support, a large
crowd was gathered which stopped all the springs and also the
running stream in the valley nearby. For they said, "Why
should the kings of Assyria come and find an abundance of
water?" [2CHRON 32:2-4]
Thereupon Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, and
Jeshua, son of Jozadak, began again to build the house of God in
Jerusalem, with the prophets of God giving them support. [EZRA
5:2]
The elders of the Jews continued to make progress in the building, supported by the message of the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah, son of Iddo. They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus and Darius (and of Artaxerxes, king of Persia).
They completed this house on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
[EZRA 6:14-15]
Finally, the orders of the king were presented
to the king's satraps and to the governors in West-of-Euphrates,
who gave their support to the people and to the house of God.
[EZRA 8:36]
Then Ezra, the priest, stood up and said to
them: "Your unfaithfulness in taking foreign women as wives
has added to Israel's guilt. But now, give praise to the LORD, the
God of your fathers, and do his will: separate yourselves from the
peoples of the land and from these foreign women." In answer,
the whole assembly cried out with a loud voice: "Yes, it is
our duty to do as you say! But the people are numerous and it is
the rainy season, so that we cannot remain out-of-doors; besides,
this is not a task that can be performed in a single day or even
two, for those of us who have sinned in this regard are many. Let
our leaders represent the whole assembly; then let all those in
our cities who have taken foreign women for wives appear at
appointed times, accompanied by the elders and magistrates of each
city in question, till we have turned away from us our God's
burning anger over this affair." Only Jonathan, son of
Asahel, and Jahzeiah, son of Tikvah, were against this proposal,
with Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them. [EZRA
10:10-15]
Forty years in the desert you sustained them:
they did not want; their garments did not become worn, and their
feet did not become swollen. [NEH 9:21]
She got up, and they started to pray and beg
that deliverance might be theirs. He began with these
words: "Blessed are you, O God of our
fathers; praised be your name forever and ever. Let the
heavens and all your creation praise you forever. You made
Adam and you gave him his wife Eve to be his help and
support; and from these two the human race
descended. You said, 'It is not good for the man to be
alone; let us make him a partner like himself.' Now, Lord,
you know that I take this wife of mine not because of
lust, but for a noble purpose. Call down your mercy on
me and on her, and allow us to live together to a happy old
age." [TOBIT 8:5-7]
The following day Holofernes ordered his whole
army, and all the allied troops that had come to his support, to
move against Bethulia, seize the mountain passes, and engage the
Israelites in battle. That same day all their fighting men went
into action. Their forces numbered a hundred and seventy thousand
infantry and twelve thousand horsemen, not counting the baggage
train or the men who accompanied it on foot-a very great army.
They encamped at the spring in the valley near Bethulia, and
spread out in breadth toward Dothan as far as Balbaim, and in
length from Bethulia to Cyamon, which faces Esdraelon. When the
Israelites saw how many there were, they said to one another in
great dismay: "Soon they will devour the whole country.
Neither the high mountains nor the valleys and hills can support
the mass of them." [JDTH 7:1-4]
"Your strength is not in numbers, nor does
your power depend upon stalwart men; but you are the God of the
lowly, the helper of the oppressed, the supporter of the weak, the
protector of the forsaken, the savior of those without hope." [JDTH
9:11]
On the third day, putting an end to her prayers, she took off her penitential garments and arrayed herself in her royal attire. In making her state appearance, after invoking the all-seeing God and savior, she took with her two maids;
on the one she leaned gently for support, while the other followed her, bearing her train. She glowed with the perfection of her beauty and her countenance was as joyous as it was lovely, though her heart was shrunk with fear. She passed through all the portals till she stood face to face with the king, who was seated on his royal throne, clothed in full robes of state, and covered with gold and precious stones, so that he inspired great awe. As he looked up, his features ablaze with the height of majestic anger, the queen staggered, changed color, and leaned weakly against the head of the maid in front of her. But God changed the king's anger to gentleness. In great anxiety he sprang from his throne, held her in his arms until she recovered, and comforted her with reassuring words.
[ESTH D:1-8]
The Jews mustered in their cities throughout the
provinces of King Ahasuerus to attack those who sought to do them
harm, and no one could withstand them, but all peoples were seized
with a fear of them. Moreover, all the officials of the provinces,
the satraps, governors, and royal procurators supported the Jews
from fear of Mordecai; for Mordecai was powerful in the royal
palace, and the report was spreading through all the provinces
that he was continually growing in power.
[ESTH 9:2-4]
Then the officers of the king addressed
Mattathias: "You are a leader, an honorable and great man in
this city, supported by sons and kinsmen. Come now, be the first
to obey the king's command, as all the Gentiles and the men of
Judah and those who are left in Jerusalem have done. Then you and
your sons shall be numbered among the King's Friends, and shall be
enriched with silver and gold and many gifts." But Mattathias
answered in a loud voice: "Although all the Gentiles in the
king's realm obey him, so that each forsakes the religion of his
fathers and consents to the king's orders, yet I and my sons and
my kinsmen will keep to the covenant of our fathers. God forbid
that we should forsake the law and the commandments. We will not
obey the words of the king nor depart from our religion in the
slightest degree." [1MACC 2:17-22]
When Mattathias and his friends heard of it,
they mourned deeply for them. "If we all do as our kinsmen
have done," they said to one another, "and do not fight
against the Gentiles for our lives and our traditions, they will
soon destroy us from the earth." On that day they came to
this decision: "Let us fight against anyone who attacks us on
the sabbath, so that we may not all die as our kinsmen died in the
hiding places." Then they were joined by a group of
Hasideans, valiant Israelites, all of them devout followers of the
law. And all those who were fleeing from the disaster joined them
and supported them. They gathered an army and struck down sinners
in their anger and lawbreakers in their wrath, and the survivors
fled to the Gentiles for safety. Mattathias and his friends went
about and tore down the pagan altars; they also enforced
circumcision for any uncircumcised boys whom they found in the
territory of Israel. They put to flight the arrogant, and the work
prospered in their hands. They saved the law from the hands of the
Gentiles and of the kings and did not let the sinner triumph. [1MACC
2:39-48]
Then his son Judas, who was called Maccabeus, took his place. All his brothers and all who had joined his father supported him, and they carried on Israel's war joyfully.
[1MACC 3:1-2]
We did not wish to be troublesome to you and to the rest of our allies and friends in these wars; with the help of Heaven for our support, we have been saved from our enemies, and they have been humbled. [1MACC 12:14-15]
Simon sent to Antiochus' support two thousand elite troops, together with gold and silver and much equipment. But he refused to accept the aid; in fact, he broke all the agreements he had previously made with Simon and became hostile toward him. [1MACC 15:26-27]
When the youth paid no attention to him at all,
the king appealed to the mother, urging her to advise her boy to
save his life. After he had urged her for a long time, she went
through the motions of persuading her son. In derision of the
cruel tyrant, she leaned over close to her son and said in their
native language: "Son, have pity on me, who carried you in my
womb for nine months, nursed you for three years, brought you up,
educated and supported you to your present age. I beg you, child,
to look at the heavens and the earth and see all that is in them;
then you will know that God did not make them out of existing
things; and in the same way the human race came into existence. Do
not be afraid of this executioner, but be worthy of your brothers
and accept death, so that in the time of mercy I may receive you
again with them." She had scarcely finished speaking when the
youth said: "What are you waiting for? I will not obey the
king's command. I obey the command of the law given to our
forefathers through Moses." [Taken from 2MACC 7:25-30]
When at least nine thousand took refuge in two
very strong towers, containing everything necessary to sustain a
siege, Maccabeus left Simon and Joseph, along with Zacchaeus and
his men, in sufficient numbers to besiege them, while he himself
went off to places where he was more urgently needed. But some of
the men in Simon's force who were money lovers let themselves be
bribed by some of the men in the towers; on receiving seventy
thousand drachmas, they allowed a number of them to escape. [2MACC
10:18-20]
To him who rises without assurance of his life he gives safety and support.
He sustains the mighty by his strength, and his eyes are on their ways. [JOB 24:22-23]
If I have raised my hand against the innocent because I saw that I had supporters at the
gate - Then may my arm fall from the shoulder, my forearm be broken at the elbow! [JOB 31:21-22]
He rescued me from my mighty enemy, from foes
too powerful for me. They attacked me on a day of distress, but
the LORD came to my support. He set me free in the open; he
rescued me because he loves me. [PS 18:18-20]
The LORD answer you in time of distress; the name of the God of Jacob defend you!
May God send you help from the temple, from Zion be your support. [PS 20:2-3]
LORD, you are the strength of your people, the saving refuge of your anointed king. Save your people, bless your inheritance;
feed and sustain them forever!
[PS 28:8-9]
LORD, your love reaches to heaven; your fidelity, to the clouds. Your justice is like the highest mountains;
your judgments, like the mighty deep; all living creatures you sustain, LORD. How precious is your love, O God!
We take refuge in the shadow of your wings. [PS 36:6-8]
The arms of the wicked will be broken; the LORD
will sustain the just. [PS 37:17]
Happy those concerned for the lowly and
poor; when misfortune strikes, the LORD delivers them. The
LORD keeps and preserves them, makes them happy in the
land, and does not betray them to their enemies. The LORD
sustains them on their sickbed, allays the malady when they
are ill. [PS 41:2-4]
For my integrity you have supported me and let
me stand in your presence forever. [PS 41:13]
Turn away your face from my sins; blot out
all my guilt. A clean heart create for me, God; renew in me a
steadfast spirit. Do not drive me from your presence, nor
take from me your holy spirit. Restore my joy in your
salvation; sustain in me a willing spirit. [PS 51:11-14]
God is present as my helper; the Lord
sustains my life. [PS 54:6]
Cast your care upon the LORD, who will give you
support. God will never allow the righteous to stumble. [PS 55:23]
But now you have rejected and spurned, been
enraged at your anointed. You renounced the covenant with your
servant, defiled his crown in the dust. You broke down all his
defenses, left his strongholds in ruins. All who pass through
seize plunder; his neighbors deride him. You have exalted the
right hand of his foes, have gladdened all his enemies. You turned
back his sharp sword, did not support him in battle. You brought
to an end his splendor, hurled his throne to the ground. You cut
short the days of his youth, covered him with shame. How long,
LORD? Will you stay hidden forever? Must your wrath smolder like
fire? Remember how brief is my life, how frail the race you
created! [Taken from PS 89:39-48]
You have the LORD for your refuge; you have made
the Most High your stronghold. No evil shall befall you, no
affliction come near your tent. For God commands the angels to
guard you in all your ways. With their hands they shall support
you, lest you strike your foot against a stone. [PS 91:9-12]
Then he called down a famine on the
land, destroyed the grain that sustained them. He had sent a
man ahead of them, Joseph, sold as a slave. They shackled his
feet with chains; collared his neck in iron, Till his
prediction came to pass, and the word of the LORD proved him
true. The king sent and released him; the ruler of peoples
set him free. He made him lord over his palace, ruler over
all his possessions, To instruct his princes by his word, to
teach his elders wisdom. [PS 105:16-22]
Sustain me by your promise that I may live; do not disappoint me in my hope. Strengthen me that I may be safe,
ever to contemplate your laws. [PS 119:116-117]
The LORD supports all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. The eyes of all look hopefully to you; you give them their food in due season. You open wide your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. [PS
145:14-16]
The LORD protects the stranger, sustains the
orphan and the widow, but thwarts the way of the wicked. [PS
146:9]
The LORD sustains the poor, but casts the wicked
to the ground. [PS 147:6]
Better a lowly man who supports himself than one
of assumed importance who lacks bread. [PROV 12:9]
A man's spirit sustains him in infirmity - but a
broken spirit who can bear? [PROV 18:14]
Though a man burdened with human blood were to
flee to the grave, none should support him. [PROV 28:17]
He who does a kindness is remembered afterward;
when he falls, he finds a support. [SIRACH 3:30]
When a rich man stumbles he is supported by a
friend; when a poor man trips he is pushed down by a friend. Many
are the supporters for a rich man when he speaks; though what he
says is odious, it wins approval. When a poor man speaks they make
sport of him; he speaks wisely and no attention is paid him. A
rich man speaks and all are silent, his wisdom they extol to the
clouds. A poor man speaks and they say: "Who is that?"
If he slips they cast him down. [SIRACH 13:20-22]
From a friend in need of support no one need hide in shame; But from him who brings harm to his friend all will stand aloof who hear of it.
[SIRACH 22:25-26]
Stumble not through woman's beauty, nor be greedy for her wealth;
The man is a slave, in disgrace and shame, when a wife supports her husband. [SIRACH 25:20-21]
Lively is the courage of those who fear the
LORD, for they put their hope in their savior; He who fears the
LORD is never alarmed, never afraid; for the LORD is his hope.
Happy the soul that fears the LORD! In whom does he trust, and who
is his support? The eyes of the LORD are upon those who love him;
he is their mighty shield and strong support, A shelter from the
heat, a shade from the noonday sun, a guard against stumbling, a
help against falling. He buoys up the spirits, brings a sparkle to
the eyes, gives health and life and blessing. [SIRACH 34:13-17]
Wealth and vigor build up confidence, but better than either, fear of God.
Fear of the LORD leaves nothing wanting; he who has it need seek no other support:
The fear of God is a paradise of blessings; its canopy, all that is glorious.
[SIRACH 40:26-27]
From him was to spring the man who won the
favor of all: Dear to God and men, Moses, whose memory
is held in benediction. God's honor devolved upon him, and
the Lord strengthened him with fearful powers; God wrought swift
miracles at his words and sustained him in the king's
presence. He gave him the commandments for his
people, and revealed to him his glory. For his
trustworthiness and meekness God selected him from all
mankind; He permitted him to hear his voice, and led him into
the cloud, Where, face to face, he gave him the
commandments, the law of life and understanding, That he
might teach his precepts to Jacob, his judgments and decrees to
Israel. [SIRACH 45:1-5]
I turned every way, but there was no one to help
me, I looked for one to sustain me, but could find no one.
But then I remembered the mercies of the LORD, his kindness
through ages past; For he saves those who take refuge in
him, and rescues them from every evil.
[SIRACH 51:7-8]
The Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall take away
from Jerusalem and from Judah support and prop (all supplies of
bread and water): Hero and warrior, judge and prophet,
fortune-teller and elder, The captain of fifty and the nobleman,
counselor, skilled magician, and expert charmer. [ISA 3:1-3]
For a child is born to us, a son is given
us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him
Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace. His
dominion is vast and forever peaceful, From David's
throne, and over his kingdom, which he confirms and
sustains By judgment and justice, both now and
forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this!
[ISA 9:5-6]
For our offenses before you are many, our sins
bear witness against us. Yes, our offenses are present to us, and
our crimes we know: Transgressing, and denying the LORD, turning
back from following our God, Threatening outrage, and apostasy,
uttering words of falsehood the heart has conceived. Right is
repelled, and justice stands far off; For truth stumbles in the
public square, uprightness cannot enter. Honesty is lacking, and
the man who turns from evil is despoiled. The LORD saw this, and
was aggrieved that right did not exist. He saw that there was no
one, and was appalled that there was none to intervene; So his own
arm brought about the victory, and his justice lent him its
support. He put on justice as his breastplate, salvation, as the
helmet on his head; He clothed himself with garments of vengeance,
wrapped himself in a mantle of zeal. He repays his enemies their
deserts, and requites his foes with wrath. Those in the west shall
fear the name of the LORD, and those in the east, his glory; For
it shall come like a pent-up river which the breath of the LORD
drives on. He shall come to Zion a redeemer to those of Jacob who
turn from sin, says the LORD. [ISA 59:12-20]
I looked about, but there was no one to help, I
was appalled that there was no one to lend support; So my own arm
brought about the victory and my own wrath lent me its support.
[ISA 63:5]
He broke off, in fiery wrath, the horn that was
Israel's whole strength; He withheld the support of his right hand
when the enemy approached; He blazed up in Jacob like a flaming
fire devouring all about it. [LAM 2:3]
See, the day of the LORD! See, the end is coming! Lawlessness is in full bloom, insolence flourishes,
violence has risen to support wickedness. It shall not be long in coming, nor shall it delay. [EZEK 7:10-11]
Those who support Egypt shall fall, and down shall come her proud strength; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall there by the sword, says the Lord GOD.
She shall be the most devastated of lands, and her cities shall be the most desolate of all.
Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I set fire to Egypt and when all who help her are broken.
[EZEK 30:6-8]
When he spoke to me, I grew strong and said,
"Speak, my lord, for you have strengthened me." "Do
you know," he asked, "why I have come to you? Soon I
must fight the prince of Persia again. When I leave, the prince of
Greece will come; but I shall tell you what is written in the
truthful book. No one supports me against all these except
Michael, your prince, standing as a reinforcement and a bulwark
for me. Now I shall tell you the truth. Three kings of Persia are
yet to come; and a fourth shall acquire the greatest riches of
all. Strengthened by his riches, he shall rouse all the kingdom of
Greece. But a powerful king shall appear and rule with great
might, doing as he pleases. No sooner shall he appear than his
kingdom shall be broken and divided in four directions under
heaven; but not among his descendants or in keeping with his
mighty rule, for his kingdom shall be torn to pieces and belong to
others than they." [Taken from DAN 10:20-21,11:1-4]
Then the devil took him to the holy city, and
made him stand on the parapet of the temple, and said to him,
"If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is
written: 'He will command his angels concerning you' and 'with
their hands they will support you, lest you dash your foot against
a stone.'" Jesus answered him, "Again it is written,
'You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.'" [MT 4:5-7]
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from
Jerusalem and said, "Why do your disciples break the
tradition of the elders? They do not wash (their) hands when they
eat a meal." He said to them in reply, "And why do you
break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For
God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Whoever curses
father or mother shall die.' But you say, 'Whoever says to father
or mother, "Any support you might have had from me is
dedicated to God," need not honor his father.' You have
nullified the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy about you when he said: 'This
people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from
me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human
precepts.'" He summoned the crowd and said to them,
"Hear and understand. It is not what enters one's mouth that
defiles that person; but what comes out of the mouth is what
defiles one." [MT 15:1-11]
He went on to say, "How well you have set
aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition!
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Whoever
curses father or mother shall die.' Yet you say, 'If a person says
to father or mother, "Any support you might have had from me
is qorban"' (meaning, dedicated to God), you allow him to do
nothing more for his father or mother. You nullify the word of God
in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. And you do
many such things." [MK 7:9-13]
Then he led him to Jerusalem, made him stand on
the parapet of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the
Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written: 'He
will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,' and: 'With
their hands they will support you, lest you dash your foot against
a stone.'" Jesus said to him in reply, "It also says,
'You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.'" When
the devil had finished every temptation, he departed from him for
a time. [LK 4:9-13]
Does God belong to Jews alone? Does he not
belong to Gentiles, too? Yes, also to Gentiles, for God is one and
will justify the circumcised on the basis of faith and the
uncircumcised through faith. Are we then annulling the law by this
faith? Of course not! On the contrary, we are supporting the law. [ROM
3:29-31]
Hence I ask, did they stumble so as to fall? Of
course not! But through their transgression salvation has come to
the Gentiles, so as to make them jealous. Now if their
transgression is enrichment for the world, and if their diminished
number is enrichment for the Gentiles, how much more their full
number. Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am
the apostle to the Gentiles, I glory in my ministry in order to
make my race jealous and thus save some of them. For if their
rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their
acceptance be but life from the dead? If the firstfruits are holy,
so is the whole batch of dough; and if the root is holy, so are
the branches. But if some of the branches were broken off, and
you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place and have come
to share in the rich root of the olive tree, do not boast against
the branches. If you do boast, consider that you do not support
the root; the root supports you. Indeed you will say,
"Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted
in." That is so. They were broken off because of unbelief,
but you are there because of faith. So do not become haughty, but
stand in awe. For if God did not spare the natural branches,
(perhaps) he will not spare you either. See, then, the kindness
and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God's
kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise
you too will be cut off. And they also, if they do not remain in
unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in
again. For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive
tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated one, how
much more will they who belong to it by nature be grafted back
into their own olive tree. [ROM 11:11-24]
What does "he ascended" mean except
that he also descended into the lower (regions) of the earth? The
one who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the
heavens, that he might fill all things. And he gave some as
apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as
pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for the work of
ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain
to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature
manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ, so that we
may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along by every
wind of teaching arising from human trickery, from their cunning
in the interests of deceitful scheming. Rather, living the truth
in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the head,
Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by
every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each
part, brings about the body's growth and builds itself up in love.
[EPH 4:9-16]
Indeed I shall continue to rejoice, for I know that this will result in deliverance for
me through your prayers and support from the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
[Taken from PHIL 1:18-19]
Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in
matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon
or sabbath. These are shadows of things to come; the reality
belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, delighting in
self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions,
inflated without reason by his fleshly mind, and not holding
closely to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held
together by its ligaments and bonds, achieves the growth that
comes from God. [COL 2:16-19]
We urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, cheer
the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all. [1THES
5:14]
Do not accept an accusation against a presbyter
unless it is supported by two or three witnesses. [1TM 5:19]
In times past, God spoke in partial and various
ways to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he
spoke to us through a son, whom he made heir of all things and
through whom he created the universe, who is the refulgence of his
glory, the very imprint of his being, and who sustains
all things by his mighty word. When he had accomplished
purification from sins, he took his seat at the right hand of
the Majesty on high, as far superior to the angels as the
name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. [HEB 1:1-4]
Beloved, you are faithful in all you do for the
brothers, especially for strangers; they have testified to your
love before the church. Please help them in a way worthy of God to
continue their journey. For they have set out for the sake of the
Name and are accepting nothing from the pagans. Therefore, we
ought to support such persons, so that we may be co-workers in the
truth. [3JN 1:5-8]
A third angel followed them and said in a loud
voice, "Anyone who worships the beast or its image, or
accepts its mark on forehead or hand, will also drink the wine of
God's fury, poured full strength into the cup of his wrath, and
will be tormented in burning sulfur before the holy angels and
before the Lamb. The smoke of the fire that torments them will
rise forever and ever, and there will be no relief day or night
for those who worship the beast or its image or accept the mark of
its name." Here is what sustains the holy ones who keep God's
commandments and their faith in Jesus. I heard a voice from heaven
say, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
from now on." "Yes," said the Spirit, "let
them find rest from their labors, for their works accompany
them." [RV 14:9-13]
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