¹⁴ He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.

³ For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

⁶ I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation.

²⁹ He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.

⁶ For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

⁴ But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

⁵ Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

⁶ So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

⁷ That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

⁸ Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

⁹ Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.