and to teach the children of Israel all the statutes, which the Lord spoke to them by Moses.

And if a matter shall be too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;

And you shall do according to the sentence which they shall report to you out of the place in which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall observe to do all things having been appointed to you by the law.

And the priests, the Levites, shall come near, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by Him, and to bless in His name, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [decided].

Take heed to yourself [regarding] the plague of leprosy: you shall take great heed to do according to all the law, which the priests, the Levites, shall report to you; take heed to do, as I have commanded you.

And with them [were] the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah and Tobadonijah, Levites, and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

And they taught in Judah, and [there was] with them the Book of the Law of the Lord, and they passed through the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites, and those that had good understanding of the Lord, and they completely kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days, offering peace offerings, and confessing to the Lord God of their fathers.

For Ezra had determined in his heart to seek the law, and to do and teach the ordinances and judgments in Israel.

So Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and everyone who had understanding [was present] to hear, on the first day of the seventh month.

And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden stage, and there stood next to him Mattithiah, Shema, Hanani, Urijah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and at his left [stood] Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God; and all the people answered, and said, Amen, lifting up their hands. And they bowed down and worshipped the Lord with their face to the ground.

And they read in the Book of the Law of God, and Ezra taught, and instructed them distinctly in the knowledge of the Lord, and the people understood from the reading.

Therefore thus says the Lord: If you will return, then will I restore you, and you shall stand before My face. And if you will bring forth the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth; and they shall return to you; but you shall not return to them.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

[ 2:12] Thus says the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priest [concerning] the law, saying,

[ 2:14] And Haggai said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.

And a servant of the Lord ought not to fight, but to be gentle to all, skillful at teaching, forbearing,

in meekness instructing those that oppose, if God perhaps may give them repentance, to a full knowledge of the truth,

Behold, I send forth My messenger, and he shall survey the way before Me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come into His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, whom you take pleasure in: behold, He is coming, says the Lord Almighty.

And who is blind, but My servants? And [who is] deaf, but those that rule over them? Yes, the servants of God have been made blind.

and confirming the word of His servant, and verifying the counsel of His messengers; who says to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Edom, You shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.

And Haggai the Lord's messenger spoke among the messengers of the Lord to the people, [saying], I am with you, says the Lord.

Most assuredly I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."

Therefore Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! Just as the Father has sent Me, I also send you."

This girl, following after Paul and us, was crying out, saying, "These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation."

Now then, we serve as ambassadors for Christ, as though God were appealing through us: we implore [you] on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise nor disdain, but as an angel of God you received me, even as Christ Jesus.

Therefore he who rejects [this] does not reject man, but God, who has given His Holy Spirit to you.