³¹ Then Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground before the king and exclaimed, “May my lord King David live forever!”

⁹ They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “Long live the king!

⁴ Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic,^[a] “Long live the king! Tell us the dream, and we will tell you what it means.”

²¹ Daniel answered, “Long live the king!

⁶ So the administrators and high officers went to the king and said, “Long live King Darius!

¹⁰ But when the queen mother heard what was happening, she hurried to the banquet hall. She said to Belshazzar, “Long live the king! Don’t be so pale and frightened.

³ but I replied, “Long live the king! How can I not be sad? For the city where my ancestors are buried is in ruins, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”

⁹ Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever?^[a]

³³ So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

³⁷ “Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking, ‘Surely they will respect my son.’