⁴ I have no greater joy than to hear that my children^(A) are walking in the truth.^(B)

¹¹ But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has,^(A) and he will surely curse you to your face.”^(B)

⁵ But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones,^(A) and he will surely curse you to your face.”^(B)

⁵ The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine^(A) from the king’s table.^(B) They were to be trained for three years,^(C) and after that they were to enter the king’s service.^(D)

² So his attendants said to him, “Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.”

²¹ and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing,^(A) rush from the vineyards and each of you seize one of them to be your wife. Then return to the land of Benjamin.

³ he said to them, “I have had a dream that troubles^(A) me and I want to know what it means.^[a]”

¹⁰ I want to know^(A) Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings,^(B) becoming like him in his death,^(C)