^11 (A)“I regret^[a] that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and ^(B)has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.

³⁹ But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

¹⁰ For ^(A)Demas, ^(B)in love with ^(C)this present world, ^(D)has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,^{[a] (E)}Titus to Dalmatia.

³⁸ But Paul thought best not to take with them one ^(A)who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.

³¹ On that day, ^(A)let the one who is on ^(B)the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. ^32 (C)Remember Lot's wife.

¹⁵ Now then, ^(A)consider from this day onward.^[a] Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord, ¹⁶ how did you fare? ^(B)When^[b] one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. ^17 (C)I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, ^(D)yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. ^18 (E)Consider from this day onward, ^(F)from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since ^(G)the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, ^(H)consider: ^19 (I)Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on ^(J)I will bless you.”