“As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families and by their fathers’ house.

It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.

So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’ ”

He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

When He came in, He said to them, “Why make this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping.”

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice,

I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly;I go mourning all the day long.

If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light.”