¹⁵ So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the Lord might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

⁸ I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

²² Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

⁶ For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.