¹¹ Now may our God and Father^(A) himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you.

³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.^(A)

¹⁶ May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father,^(A) who loved us^(B) and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,

¹³ May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless^(A) and holy in the presence of our God and Father^(B) when our Lord Jesus comes^(C) with all his holy ones.^(D)

³² “Do not be afraid,^(A) little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.^(B)

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.^(A) Are you not much more valuable than they?^(B)

⁸ Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need^(A) before you ask him.

⁹ “This, then, is how you should pray:

Breaking Covenant Through Blemished Sacrifices

⁶ “A son honors his father,^(A) and a slave his master.^(B) If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect^(C) due me?” says the Lord Almighty.^(D)

“It is you priests who show contempt for my name.

“But you ask,^(E) ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’