29 “Is not my word correspondingly like a fire,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah, “and like a forge hammer that smashes the crag?”+

6 Accordingly he answered and said to me: “This is the word of Jehovah to Ze·rubʹba·bel, saying, ‘“Not by a military force,*+ nor by power,*+ but by my spirit,”*+ Jehovah of armies has said.

17 His disciples called to mind that it is written: “The zeal for your house will eat me up.”+

23 For YOU have been given a new birth,+ not by corruptible,+ but by incorruptible+ [reproductive] seed,*+ through the word+ of [the] living and enduring+ God.