³² And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?

⁴⁵ Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;

³ My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: `Then' spake I with my tongue:

⁶³ It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life.

¹² For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

²³ And when they had appointed him a day, they came to him into his lodging in great number; to whom he expounded `the matter,' testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

² and Paul, as his custom was, went in unto them, and for three sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

³ opening and alleging that it behooved the Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom, `said he,' I proclaim unto you, is the Christ.

²⁹ Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

⁹ And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot `contain'.

¹⁶ Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

⁴ The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

¹⁷ Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

⁹ Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man's friend `that cometh' of hearty counsel.

³⁴ Let thy meditation be sweet unto him: I will rejoice in Jehovah.