Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

so he sent for a clever woman who lived in Tekoa. When she arrived, he said to her, "Pretend that you are in mourning; put on your mourning clothes, and don't comb your hair. Act like a woman who has been in mourning for a long time.

Ashhur, who founded the town of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

People of Benjamin, run for safety! Escape from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa and build a signal fire in Beth Haccherem. Disaster and destruction are about to come from the north.

Israel is no stronger than Samaria, its capital city, and Samaria is no stronger than King Pekah. "If your faith is not enduring, you will not endure."

You, LORD, give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you.

Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that you would see God's glory if you believed?"

"Do not be worried and upset," Jesus told them. "Believe in God and believe also in me.

In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us?

No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him.

When the Israelites saw the great power with which the LORD had defeated the Egyptians, they stood in awe of the LORD; and they had faith in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

But Abraham said, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone were to rise from death.' "

If you had really believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.

But since you do not believe what he wrote, how can you believe what I say?"

I am telling you the truth: whoever receives anyone I send receives me also; and whoever receives me receives him who sent me."