And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

Then Herod secretly sent for the magi and learned from them the [exact] time the star [had first] appeared.

After fasting forty days and forty nights, He at last felt hungry.

And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

For, verily, I say unto you, until the heaven and the earth shall pass away, one least letter, or one point, may in nowise pass away from the law, till all be accomplished.

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Buttake heed, that ye do not, your righteousness, before men, to be gazed at by them, - otherwise at least, reward, have ye none, with your Father who is in the heavens.

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or at lest he will be attached to the one, and neglect the other: ye cannot serve God and mammon:

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.

And the disciples came and roused him. "Master," they cried, "save us; we are lost!"

Neither pour they new wine into old skins: otherwise at least, the skins are burst, and, the wine, runneth out, and, the skins, are spoiled, - but they pour new wine into unused skins, and, both, are together preserved.

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

Truly I tell you, whoever gives a mere drink of cold water to one of these least significant [disciples of mine] because he is a disciple, will certainly not lose his [temporal or eternal] reward."

Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

and straitly charged them, lest they should make him, manifest:

And all the multitudes were lost in amazement, and they said, Is not this the son of David?

Knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them, “Any kingdom that is divided against itself is being laid waste; and no city or house divided against itself will [continue to] stand.

If Satan casts out Satan [that is, his demons], he has become divided against himself and disunited; how then will his kingdom stand?

Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.

But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

Another parable he put forth unto them saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man taketh and soweth in his field, which is the least of all seeds.

Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Then, straitly charged he the disciples, lest, to any man, they should say - He, is, the Christ.

Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

“What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountain and go in search of the one that is lost?

And if it turns out that he finds it, I assure you and most solemnly say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones be lost.

And every one that has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit eternal life. But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

at last, about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, why do you stand idling thus all day long?

So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

last of all they came who were hired first, expecting to have received more, but they had only a penny a man,

Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:

And he answering said, 'I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.

Which of the two did the will of the father?" They say, "The last." Jesus saith to them, "Verily I say to you that the tax-collectors and the harlots are going into the Kingdom of God before you.

for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.

But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. Last of all the woman died also.

And last of all the woman died also.

for they load men with intolerable impositions, and will not take the least pains to ease them of the burthen: they do nothing but out of ostentation,

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You pay tithes on mint, fennel, and caraway seed, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law--justice, mercy, and good faith. These last you ought to have put into practice, without neglecting the first.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,

And, answering, Jesus said unto them - Be taking heed, lest anyone, deceive, you;

Therefore, you also should be ready, for the Son of man will come at a time when you least expect Him.

that slave's master will return on a day that he least expects, and at an unknown hour.

But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

At last the rest of the bridesmaids came, and kept begging, 'Master, master, open the door for us!'

you should have therefore deposited my money in the bank [so] when I returned, [at least] I would have received my own money back, with interest.

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

And these last will go away 'into aeonian punishment,' but the righteous 'into aeonian life.'"

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.

Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit is, willing, but the flesh is weak.

But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

However, at last two came forward who said, "This fellow declared, 'I can destroy the Temple of God and build it in three days.'"

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him.”

At last, having finished their sport, they took off the cloak, clothed Him again in His own garments, and led Him away for crucifixion.

Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

said he, how you take the least notice of this to any man: but go, show your self to the priest, and offer for your cure what Moses commanded, that this may serve as a testimony against them.

No one, seweth a patch of unshrunk cloth upon an old mantle, - otherwise, at least, the shrinking teareth away from it - the new from the old - and, a worse rent is made.

No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the [fermenting] wine will [expand and] burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the wineskins. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”

And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

and sternly was he rebuking them, lest they should make him manifest.

And [when] {his family} heard [this], they went out to restrain him, for they were saying, "He has lost his mind!"

For if civil war breaks out in a kingdom, nothing can make that kingdom last;

And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

So, if Satan is in revolt against himself and is divided, he cannot last--his end has come!

That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown.

and the cares of this world, and the deceit of riches, and the lust about other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.

The ground of itself produces, first the stalk, then the head; at last there is the matured grain of wheat in the head.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in the earth, is the least of all seeds that be in the earth:

even though it is the least [significant] of all seeds on earth, becomes larger than all other plants. It develops huge branches so that the birds of the sky can roost in their shade."

Jesus was in the stern asleep upon the cushion; and the disciples roused him and cried: "Teacher! is it nothing to you that we are lost?"

and he was calling upon him much, saying -- 'My little daughter is at the last extremity -- that having come, thou mayest lay on her thy hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'

The girl got up at once and began to walk (she was twelve years old); and at once they were lost in utter amazement.

And when his disciples had news of it, they came and took up his body, and put it in its last resting-place.

And he went up to them into the vessel, and the wind ceased and they were beyond all imagination amazed in themselves, and lost in wonder.

because they had not understood [the miracle of] the loaves [how it revealed the power and deity of Jesus]; but [in fact] their heart was hardened [being oblivious and indifferent to His amazing works].

adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

have you eyes, and yet don't see? have you ears, and yet not hear? have you lost your memory too?

And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.

where their worm [that feeds on the dead] does not die, and the fire is not put out.

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.