³ God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.

¹ By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

²⁴ Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.

²⁵ And they took the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they put Oreb to death at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they put to death at the place of the grape-crushing in Zeeb, and they went after Midian; but the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they took across Jordan to Gideon.

³ Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

¹⁸ And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

¹⁹ By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;

⁶ And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;

³ But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.

³⁷ In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

¹⁵ A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.

¹¹ A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.

³² He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

¹⁴ The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

¹⁵ The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

¹⁶ The right hand of the Lord is lifted up; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

¹ Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.

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.