Esau asked, "What about that other group I met? What did that mean?" Jacob answered, "It was to gain your favor."

Jacob said, "No, please, if I have gained your favor, accept my gift. To see your face is for me like seeing the face of God, now that you have been so friendly to me.

Esau said, "Then let me leave some of my men with you." But Jacob answered, "There is no need for that for I only want to gain your favor."

May Almighty God cause the man to have pity on you, so that he will give Benjamin and your other brother back to you. As for me, if I must lose my children, I must lose them."

"May you always think kindly of me," she replied. Then she went away, ate some food, and was no longer sad.

The king said to Ziba, "Everything that belonged to Mephibosheth is yours." "I am your servant," Ziba replied. "May I always please Your Majesty!"

But he found the young woman so attractive that he fell in love with her and tried to win her affection.

Then the man decided to go after her and try to persuade her to return to him. He took his servant and two donkeys with him. The woman showed the Levite into the house, and when her father saw him, he gave him a hearty greeting.

Abigail bowed down to the ground and said, "I am his servant, ready to wash the feet of his servants."

Reverence for the LORD is an education in itself. You must be humble before you can ever receive honors.

Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves.