And on every high mountain, and on every high hill, shall be rivulets lifted up, streams of water, in a day of great slaughter, in the falling of towers.
Behold, I have today appointed you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to tear down, and to destroy, and to cast down, to build, and to plant.
Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as one living from the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.
Who serves as a soldier at his own wages ever? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
For even if I also somewhat more abundantly may boast about our authority, which the Lord gave us for building up and not for your destruction, I will not be put to shame,
Because of this, I write these things while absent, that being present I may not deal severelywith you according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for destruction.
And the people shouted, and blew with the rams’ horns, and it happened, when the people heard the sound of the rams’ horn, the people shouted a great shout. And the wall fell underneath it; and the people went up into the city, each man in front of him; and they captured the city.