Jephthah and Ephraim

12 The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon.^(A) They said to Jephthah,^(B) “Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you?^(C) We’re going to burn down your house over your head.”

Zebah and Zalmunna

8 Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon,^(A) “Why have you treated us like this? Why didn’t you call us when you went to fight Midian?^(B)”^(C) And they challenged him vigorously.^(D)

Submit Yourselves to God

4 What causes fights and quarrels^(A) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle^(B) within you? ² You desire but do not have, so you kill.^(C) You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

¹⁶ For where you have envy and selfish ambition,^(A) there you find disorder and every evil practice.

³² but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”

¹⁵ On the fourth^[a] day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Coax^(A) your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death.^(B) Did you invite us here to steal our property?”

⁴ And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.^(A)