Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, but I must speak again. What if there are only thirty?" He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty."

Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, and I will speak only once more. What if only ten are found?" He said, "I will not destroy it if there are ten."

I said, "O God, I am too ashamed to raise my head in your presence. Our sins pile up higher than our heads; they reach as high as the heavens.

So I am ashamed of all I have said and repent in dust and ashes.

Now take seven bulls and seven rams to Job and offer them as a sacrifice for yourselves. Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer and not disgrace you the way you deserve. You did not speak the truth about me as he did."

I said, "There is no hope for me! I am doomed because every word that passes my lips is sinful, and I live among a people whose every word is sinful. And yet, with my own eyes I have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to teach them that they should always pray and never become discouraged.

Then the LORD God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again."

Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?

what are human beings, that you think of them; mere mortals, that you care for them?

LORD, what are mortals, that you notice them; mere mortals, that you pay attention to us?

Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth, and the breath of life will go back to God, who gave it to us.

I said, "There is no hope for me! I am doomed because every word that passes my lips is sinful, and I live among a people whose every word is sinful. And yet, with my own eyes I have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

But you are our father, LORD. We are like clay, and you are like the potter. You created us,

When Simon Peter saw what had happened, he fell on his knees before Jesus and said, "Go away from me, Lord! I am a sinful man!"

The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven.

Those who belong to the earth are like the one who was made of earth; those who are of heaven are like the one who came from heaven.

For we know that when this tent we live in---our body here on earth---is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever.

And now we sigh, so great is our desire that our home which comes from heaven should be put on over us;