Bible: 1 Corinthians 4:21; 8:1; 13:1,2,3,4,8,13; 14:1; 16:14,24

4:21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline 1  or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

8:1 But God remembered 1  Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over 2  the earth and the waters receded.

Abram’s Solution to the Strife

13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. 1  He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot. 2  13:2 (Now Abram was very wealthy 3  in livestock, silver, and gold.) 4 

13:3 And he journeyed from place to place 5  from the Negev as far as Bethel. 6  He returned 7  to the place where he had pitched his tent 8  at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai. 13:4 This was the place where he had first built the altar, 9  and there Abram worshiped the Lord. 10 

13:8 Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives. 11  13:13 (Now 12  the people 13  of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.) 14 

The Blessing of Victory for God’s People

14:1 At that time 1  Amraphel king of Shinar, 2  Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations 3 

16:14 That is why the well was called 1  Beer Lahai Roi. 2  (It is located 3  between Kadesh and Bered.)

The Birth of Ishmael

16:1 Now Sarai, 4  Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, 5  but she had an Egyptian servant 6  named Hagar. 7 

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