²⁹ Truly, God does all these things to man, twice and three times,

¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

¹¹ In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

⁶ And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all.

²¹ Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

²⁹ And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.

⁸ And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.

⁵ Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

⁵ Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:

¹⁴ For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:

¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

¹⁶ Then he makes his secrets clear to men, so that they are full of fear at what they see;

¹⁷ In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;

¹⁰ So the king of Israel sent to the place where the man of God had said there was danger, and kept clear of it more than once.