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

I solemnly say to you, you will never get out at all until you have paid the last penny.

But because He knew their thoughts, He said to them, "Any kingdom that is not united is in the process of destruction, and any city or family that is not united cannot last.

Now if Satan is driving out Satan, he has become disunited; how then can his kingdom last?

But many who are first now will be last then, and many who are last now will be first then."

"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'

and say, 'These last worked only one hour, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us who have borne the heavy burdens and scorching heat of the day.'

Take what belongs to you and go. I want to give this man hired last as much as I do you.

So those who are last now will be first then, and those first will be last."

At last he sent his son to them, for he said to himself, 'They will surely respect my son.'

Last of all, the woman died, too.

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

but they could not, although many false witnesses came forward to testify. At last two men came forward

Issue an order then to have the tomb closely guarded, so that His disciples cannot come and steal Him and tell the people that He rose from the dead, and the last deception be worse than the first."

If a kingdom is disunited, that kingdom cannot last.

And if a household is disunited, that household cannot last.

And if Satan has made an insurrection against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is surely coming to an end.

but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way.

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

So He sat down and called the Twelve to Him and said, "If anyone wants to be the first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

But many who are first now will be last then, and last now who will be first then."

He had one more to send, his dearly loved son; at last he sent him to them, for he said to himself, 'They will surely respect my son.'

And not one of the seven left a child. At last the woman died too.

And if Satan is really disunited, how can his kingdom last? Yet you say that I am driving the demons out with Beelzebub's help.

I tell you, you will never get out of it until you have paid the last penny!"

And so there are those now last who will be first then, and there are those now first who will then be last."

Last of all, the woman died.

Then Jesus uttered a loud cry, and said, "Father, I now commit my spirit to your care." As He said this He breathed His last.

Finally one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered Him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who has not heard of the things that have taken place there in these last days?"

So He made a lash out of cords, and drove them all, together with the sheep and cattle, out of the temple court, scattered the money-changers' coins and upset their tables.

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

For it is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the last day."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the last day.

Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood already possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

On the last day, the great day, of the feast, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

Martha said to Him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the last day."

Whoever persistently rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings has something to judge him -- the very message I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Before the Passover feast started, Jesus knew that His time had come for Him to leave the world and go to the Father, and as He had loved His own in the world He loved them to the last.

'It will occur in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will have visions. Your old men will have dreams.

They passed the first guard, then the second, and at last came to the iron gate which led into the city. The gate of itself opened to them, and they passed out and proceeded one block when all at once the angel left him.

At last the city recorder quieted the mob and said: "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image that fell down from heaven?

and a young man named Eutychus, who was sitting by the window, was gradually overcome by heavy drowsiness, as Paul kept speaking longer and longer, and at last he went fast asleep and fell from the third story to the ground and was picked up dead.

For a number of days neither the sun nor the stars were to be seen, and the storm continued to rage, until at last all hope of being saved was now vanishing,

For just last night an angel of God, to whom I belong and whom I serve, stood by my side

always entreating God that somehow by His will I may some day at last succeed in getting to see you.

Death is the last enemy to be stopped,

This is the way the Scripture puts it too, "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised with bodies not subject to decay, and we shall be changed.

for I know your readiness to help in it. I am boasting of you about it to the Macedonians, reminding them that Greece has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated the most of them.

yes, to come at last to know the love of Christ, although it far surpasses human understanding, so that you may be filled with the perfect fullness of God.

by trying to keep us from speaking to the heathen, so that they may be saved, so as always to fill to the brim the cup of their sins. But at last God's wrath has come upon them.

in this way amassing for themselves the riches that forever endure in the life to come, so that at last they may grasp the life that is life indeed.

Now you must know that in the last days there are going to be hard times.

but day by day, as long as "Today" shall last, continue to encourage one another, so that not one of you may be hardened by sin's deceiving ways,

"'This is the covenant that I will make with them: In those last days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws into their hearts, and write them on their minds,'"

your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will testify against you and devour your flesh like fire. You have stored up these things for the last days.

who are always guarded by the power of God through faith, in order that you may receive that final salvation which will be ready to be uncovered for you at the last time.

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, living in accordance with their evil passions,

Little children, it is the last hour, just as you have heard that Antichrist is Coming, and already many Antichrists have appeared; so we may be sure that it is the last hour.

because they said to you, "In the last times there will be mockers who will live to satisfy their own godless passions."

So when I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He laid His right hand upon me and said: "Do not be afraid any more. I am the First and the Last;

"To the messenger of the church in Smyrna write: "'The First and the Last, who once was dead but came to life again, speaks as follows:

Then I saw another symbol in heaven, great and wonderful: seven angels bringing seven plagues which are to be the last, because with them God's wrath is completely expressed.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.