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"The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, they said to him, 'Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?' They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, 'Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her'". (v.3-7)

"The people spoke against God and against Moses, 'Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.' Then the LORD sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died". (v.5-6)

"We say, 'Faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.' How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised... For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith". (v.9-11,13)

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers - all things have been created through him and for him... He is the head of the body, the church;..." (v.15-16, 18)

"Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil." (v. 1)

"The Lord said to Cain, 'Where is your brother Abel?' He said, 'I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?'" (v. 9)

"He was there with the LORD for forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments". (v. 28)

"What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?" (v.12)

"But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he night die: 'It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors'. Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, 'Get up and eat'. He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again". (v. 4-6)

"Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." (4:16)

"Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself form your own kin? Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you, the glory of the LORD shall be your rearguard". (v.6-8)

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." (v.6)