¹⁷ Every good and perfect gift is from above,^(A) coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,^(B) who does not change^(C) like shifting shadows.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.^(A)

²⁹ for God’s gifts and his call^(A) are irrevocable.^(B)

Breaking Covenant by Withholding Tithes

⁶ “I the Lord do not change.^(A) So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.^(B)

⁴⁴ Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,^(A) I will not reject them or abhor^(B) them so as to destroy them completely,^(C) breaking my covenant^(D) with them. I am the Lord their God.

²⁰ “This is what the Lord says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day^(A) and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time,^(B)