So Abram moved his camp and settled near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.

The LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants." Then Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

After that, he moved on south to the hill country east of the city of Bethel and set up his camp between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There also he built an altar and worshiped the LORD.

God said to Jacob, "Go to Bethel at once, and live there. Build an altar there to me, the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau."

We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone."

I love the house where you live, O LORD, the place where your glory dwells.

As a deer longs for a stream of cool water, so I long for you, O God.

I thirst for you, the living God. When can I go and worship in your presence?

How I love your Temple, LORD Almighty!

How I want to be there! I long to be in the LORD's Temple. With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.

One day spent in your Temple is better than a thousand anywhere else; I would rather stand at the gate of the house of my God than live in the homes of the wicked.

Seth had a son whom he named Enosh. It was then that people began using the LORD's holy name in worship.

O God, it is right for us to praise you in Zion and keep our promises to you,

because you answer prayers. People everywhere will come to you

"Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good; his love is eternal!"

They must thank the LORD for his constant love, for the wonderful things he did for them.

They must thank the LORD for his constant love, for the wonderful things he did for them.

He listens to me every time I call to him.

I will give you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and offer my prayer to you.

He is near to those who call to him, who call to him with sincerity.

When you pray, I will answer you. When you call to me, I will respond. "If you put an end to oppression, to every gesture of contempt, and to every evil word;

Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me, and I will answer you.

"Then I will change the people of the nations, and they will pray to me alone and not to other gods. They will all obey me.

To the church of God which is in Corinth, to all who are called to be God's holy people, who belong to him in union with Christ Jesus, together with all people everywhere who worship our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

Do all this in prayer, asking for God's help. Pray on every occasion, as the Spirit leads. For this reason keep alert and never give up; pray always for all God's people.

And pray also for me, that God will give me a message when I am ready to speak, so that I may speak boldly and make known the gospel's secret.