They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.
And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
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