Doxology

²⁴ To him who is able^(A) to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence^(B) without fault^(C) and with great joy—

¹² That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame,^(A) because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard^(B) what I have entrusted to him until that day.^(C)

¹⁴ I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the Lord. I will allow no pity^(A) or mercy or compassion^(B) to keep me from destroying^(C) them.’”

⁷ or because of these surpassingly great revelations.^(A) Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh,^(B) a messenger of Satan,^(C) to torment me.

¹⁶ So this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

¹² There is only one Lawgiver and Judge,^(A) the one who is able to save and destroy.^(B) But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?^(C)

³⁸ They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria (where the prostitutes bathed),^[a] and the dogs^(A) licked up his blood, as the word of the Lord had declared.