but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

But God is my King from long ago; he brings salvation on the earth.

God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.

But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” “It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”

“Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.

But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.

You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.

He gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child.

“Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?

He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.

but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen.

But God raised him from the dead,

But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen—

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.

while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,