So the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to become loaves."

said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down; for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you; they will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."

Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above.

and the men in the boat worshipped him, saying, "You are certainly God's Son."

But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!"

he said, "The time has now come, God's reign is near: repent and believe in the gospel."

"Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? We know who you are, you are God's holy One."

but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

I tell you truly," he said, to them, "there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the coming of God's Reign with power."

If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear it out: better get into God's Realm with one eye, than keep your two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna,

for those days will be days of misery, the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now ??no and never shall be.

The devil said to him, "If you are God's son, tell this stone to become a loaf."

Then he brought him to Jerusalem and placing him on the pinnacle of the temple said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from this;

"Ha! Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.

but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.)

Now if God so clothes grass which blooms to-day in the field and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will he not much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

He went on to tell a parable in their hearing, as he was approaching Jerusalem and as they imagined God's Reign would instantly come into view.

for I tell you I will never drink the produce of the vine again till such time as God's Reign comes."

But after this the Son of man will be seated at God's right hand of power."

On the sabbath they rested in obedience to God's command, but on the first day of the week at early dawn they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.

He said to him, "Truly, truly I tell you all, you shall see heaven open wide and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm.

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life ??God's anger broods over him."

If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came ??and scripture cannot be broken ??36 do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

The Jews retorted, "But we have a Law, and by [our] Law he is bound to die, because he has made himself out to be God's Son."

After his sufferings he had shown them that he was alive by a number of proofs, revealing himself to them for forty days and discussing the affairs of God's Realm.

this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

Uplifted then by God's right hand, and receiving from the Father the long-promised holy Spirit, he has poured on us what you now see and hear.)

At their prayer the place of meeting was shaken, and they were all filled with the holy Spirit, speaking God's word fearlessly;

He, full of the holy Spirit, gazed up at heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

"Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of man standing at God's right hand!"

The populace shouted, "It is a god's voice, not a man's!"

Of course David, after serving God's purpose in his own generation, died and was laid beside his fathers; he suffered decay,

Symeon has explained how it was God's original concern to secure a People from among the Gentiles to bear his Name.

As he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples there to give him a welcome. And on his arrival he proved of great service to those who by God's grace had believed,

When they heard him addressing them in Hebrew they were all the more quiet. So he went on.

The bystanders said, "What! would you rail at God's high priest?"

asking if I may at last be sped upon my way to you by God's will.

For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

But God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of those who hinder the Truth by their wickedness.

though they know God's decree that people who practise such vice deserve death, they not only do it themselves but applaud those who practise it.

Very well; and do you imagine you will escape God's doom, O man, you who judge those who practise such vices and do the same yourself?

whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;

no unbelief made him waver about God's promise; his faith won strength as he gave glory to God

Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,

who shall condemn? Will Christ? ??the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us!

no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

It is not, of course, as if God's word had failed! Far from it! 'Israel' does not mean everyone who belongs to Israel;

they are not all children of Abraham because they are descended from Abraham. No, it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned ??8 meaning that instead of God's children being the children born to him by natural descent, it is the children of the Promise who are reckoned as his true offspring.

the magistrate is God's servant for your benefit. But if you do wrong, you may well be alarmed; a magistrate does not wield the power of the sword for nothing, he is God's servant for the infliction of divine vengeance upon evil-doers.

for the same reason as you pay taxes ??since magistrates are God's officers, bent upon the maintenance of order and authority.

You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats;

Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers,

as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

Then, by God's will, I shall gladly come to you and rest beside you.

Thus when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come to proclaim to you God's secret purpose with any elaborate words or wisdom.

We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

Do you not know you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells within you?

God will destroy anyone who would destroy God's temple, for God's temple is sacred ??and that is what you are.

This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.

For God's Reign does not show itself in talk but in power.

Only, everyone must lead the lot assigned him by the Lord; he must go on living the life in which God's call came to him. (Such is the rule I lay down for all the churches).

Circumcision counts for nothing, uncircumcision counts for nothing; obedience to God's commands is everything.

to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves ??though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law ??to win over those outside the Law;

You challenge this rule? Pray, did God's word start from you? Are you the only people it has reached?

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them ??though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

'If any one has no love for the Lord, God's curse be on him! Maran atha!

Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;

For God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," has shone within my heart to illuminate men with the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Christ.

What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God ??as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

Now even though it were myself or some angel from heaven, whoever preaches a gospel that contradicts the gospel I preached to you, God's curse be on him!

I have said it before and I now repeat it: whoever preaches a gospel to you that contradicts the gospel you have already received, God's curse be on him!

I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

Besides, Scripture anticipated God's justification of the Gentiles by faith when it announced the gospel beforehand to Abraham in these terms: All nations shall be blessed in thee.

My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise.

Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,

among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,

Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power;

till we should all attain the unity of the faith and knowledge of God's Son, reaching maturity, reaching the full measure of development which belongs to the fulness of Christ ??14 instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;

And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.

So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe.

to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.

so shall God's peace, that surpasses all our dreams, keep guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and brother Timotheus,

which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is.

for I am a minister of the church by the divine commission which has been granted me in your interests, to make a full presentation of God's message ??26 of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God.

As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper ??13 forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.