37 and this woman was a widow [a]of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers (A)night and day.

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  1. Luke 2:37 NU until she was eighty-four

Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers (A)night and day.

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Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will [a]dwell in the house of the Lord
[b]Forever.

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  1. Psalm 23:6 So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT return
  2. Psalm 23:6 Or To the end of my days, lit. For length of days

23 So when they had (A)appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

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(A)One thing I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may (B)dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the [a]beauty of the Lord,
And to inquire in His temple.

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  1. Psalm 27:4 delightfulness

Then, (A)having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away.

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To this promise (A)our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God (B)night and day, (C)hope to attain. For this hope’s sake, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.

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O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear;
And in the night season, and am not silent.

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15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will (A)dwell among them.

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12 He who overcomes, I will make him (A)a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall (B)go out no more. (C)I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the (D)New Jerusalem, which (E)comes down out of heaven from My God. (F)And I will write on him My new name.

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Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting(A)

33 Then they said to Him, (B)“Why[a] do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”

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  1. Luke 5:33 NU omits Why do, making the verse a statement

Praise to God in Creation and Redemption

135 Praise the Lord!

Praise the name of the Lord;
(A)Praise Him, O you servants of the Lord!
(B)You who stand in the house of the Lord,
In (C)the courts of the house of our God,

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10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather [a]be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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  1. Psalm 84:10 stand at the threshold

Blessed are those who dwell in Your (A)house;
They will still be praising You. Selah

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“No(A) one is holy like the Lord,
For there is (B)none besides You,
Nor is there any (C)rock like our God.

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Making the Bronze Laver

He made (A)the laver of bronze and its base of bronze, from the bronze mirrors of the serving women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

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13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord
Shall flourish in the courts of our God.

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