My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

My meditation of Him shall be pleasant; I will be glad in Jehovah.

Ointment and perfume make the heart glad; so does the sweetness of advice from the soul of one's friend.

As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned, to know how to speak a word in season to the weary. He wakens morning by morning, He wakens the ear to hear as the learned.

Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah the God of Hosts.

Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak in His name any more. But His Word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding it in, and I could not.

Is not My Word like a fire? says Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh does not profit; not a thing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

For the Word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

And He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.

And Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

explaining and setting forth that the Christ needed to suffer and rise again from the dead, and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.

So when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging, to whom he explained and testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning till evening.