"But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
"'Therefore it is better to be a king who displays his power, or else a profitable vessel in a house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods, or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods, or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.
To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me."
Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.
So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus' breast.
Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.
and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.
Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.
But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!"
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'
But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.
For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn't it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves.
that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.
You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'the LORD's table contemptible.'
"But you profane it, in that you say, 'the LORD's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.
But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.
While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard--very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,
But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."
Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.
They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.
Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.
"On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.
But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.
She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, the LORD, my rock, and my redeemer. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
But as for me, my prayer is to you, the LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."
David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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