- 2 Samuel 7
  
  1 It happened, when the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
  
  2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains."
  
  3 Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you."
  
  4 It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,
  
  5 "Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?
  
  6 For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.
  
  7 In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"'
  
  8 Now therefore you shall tell my servant David this, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel.
  
  9 I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
  
  10 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,
  
  11 and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.
  
  12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
  
  13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
  
  14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
  
  15 but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
  
  16 Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever."'"
  
  17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
  
  18 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, "Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
  
  19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this after the way of men, Lord Yahweh!
  
  20 What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.
  
  21 For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
  
  22 Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
  
  23 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
  
  24 You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
  
  25 Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
  
  26 Let your name be magnified forever, saying, 'Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.'
  
  27 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
  
  28 "Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
  
  29 Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing."
  
  Ezéchiel 15
  
  1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
  
  2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
  
  3 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
  
  4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and its midst is burned: is it profitable for any work?
  
  5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!
  
  6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  
  7 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
  
  8 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.
  
  2 Corinthiens 1
  
  1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
  
  2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  
  3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
  
  4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
  
  5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
  
  6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
  
  7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
  
  8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
  
  9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
  
  10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
  
  11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
  
  12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  
  13 For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;
  
  14 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
  
  15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;
  
  16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
  
  17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"
  
  18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."
  
  19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes."
  
  20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of God through us.
  
  21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
  
  22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
  
  23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.
  
  24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

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