And you Bethlehem, in Judah's land, You are not least among the rulers of Judah: For a ruler will come from you, Who will shepherd Israel my people."

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."

Therefore whoever relaxes a single one of these commands, were it even one of the least, and teaches men so, he will be ranked least in the Realm of heaven; but whoever obeys them and teaches them, he will be ranked great in the Realm of heaven.)

truly I tell you, you will never get out till you pay the last halfpenny of your debt.

But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

rather make your way to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

I tell you truly, no one has arisen among the sons of women who is greater than John the Baptist, and yet the least in the Realm of heaven is greater than he is.

Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. This is how it will be with the present evil generation."

For the heart of this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

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

He replied, "It was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that I was sent."

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

Many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

Now when evening came the master of the vineyard said to his bailiff, 'Summon the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and going on to the first.'

'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!'

Take what belongs to you and be off. I choose to give this last man the same as you.

So shall the last be first and the first last."

Which of the two did the will of the father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, the taxgatherers and harlots are going into the Realm of God before you.

The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.'

Then he will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did not do it to one of these, even the least of them, you did not do it to me.'

but they could find none, although a number of false witnesses came forward. However, two men came forward at last

so that for all their seeing they may not perceive, and for all their hearing they may not understand, lest they turn and be forgiven."

but they have no root in themselves, they do not last; the next thing is that when the word brings trouble or persecution, they are at once repelled.

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

adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness,

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

Many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first."

He had still one left, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

none of the seven left any offspring. Last of all the woman died too.

and They will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."

I tell you, among the sons of women there is none greater than John, and yet the least in the Realm of God is greater than he is."

I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist.

Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first."

I tell you, you will never get out till you pay the last farthing of your debt."

Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

then the host will tell you, 'Make room for him,' and you will proceed in shame to take the lowest place.

No, when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes in he will tell you, 'Move higher up, my friend.' Then you will be honoured before your fellow guests.

"Which of you with a hundred sheep, if he loses one, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one till he finds it?

and when he gets home he gathers his friends and neighbours: 'Rejoice with me,' he says to them, 'for I have found the sheep I lost.'

And when she finds it she gathers her women-friends and neighbours, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the shilling I lost.'

for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

Jesus said, "Let me do this at least," and cured him by touching his ear.

Even yet they could not believe it for sheer joy; they were lost in wonder. So he said to them, "Have you any food here?"

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).

He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day),

Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;

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

He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,

When he had gone out, Jesus said, Now at last the Son of man is glorified, and in him God is glorified: [if God is glorified in him,]

His disciples said, "Now, you are talking plainly at last, not speaking in figures.

Jesus replied, "You believe it, at last?

No, this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel ??17 In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams:

For David says of him, I saw the Lord before me evermore; lest I be shaken, he is at my right hand.

and when they recognized this was the very man who used to sit and beg at the Gate Beautiful, they were lost in awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

When they came up from the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch lost sight of him. He went on his way rejoicing,

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

for many days neither sun nor stars could be seen, the storm raged heavily, and at last we had to give up all hope of being saved.

For last night an angel of the God I belong to and serve, stood before me,

For the heart at this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy at hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

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

So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, ??25 since they have exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed for ever: Amen.

and in the same way the males have abandoned the natural use of women and flamed out in lust for one another, men perpetrating shameless acts with their own sex and getting in their own persons the due recompense of their perversity.

till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity ??slanderers,

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

Thus 'faith and hope and love last on, these three,' but the greatest of all is love.

For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

(Death is the last foe to be put down.)

Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';

Here is a secret truth for you: not all of us are to die, but all of us are to be changed ??52 changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. The trumpet will sound, the dead will rise imperishable, and we shall be changed.

for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by us (by myself and Silvanus and Timotheus) was not 'yes and no' ??the divine 'yes' has at last sounded in him,

Such being my hope then, I am quite frank and open ??13 not like Moses, who used to hang a veil over his face to keep the children of Israel from gazing at the last rays of a fading glory.

But I will tell you what I think about it; it is to your interest to go on with this enterprise, for you started it last year, you were the first not merely to do anything but to want to do anything.

I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.

I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!

not the outcome of what you have done ??lest anyone should pride himself on that;

less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them ??19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

Be sure of this, that no one guilty of sexual vice or impurity or lust (that is, an idolater) possesses any inheritance in the realm of Christ and God.

indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

by hindering us from speaking words of salvation to the Gentiles. So they would fill up the measure of their sins to the last drop! But the Wrath is on them to the bitter end!

No one under sixty is to be put on the church's list of widows; and she must have been only once married,

Refuse to put young widows on the list, for when their wanton desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry

Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.

Mark this, there are hard times coming in the last days.

The last drops of my own sacrifice are falling; my time to go has come.

We are not the men to shrink back and be lost, but to have faith and so to win our souls.

your gold and silver lie rusted over, and their rust will be evidence against you, it will devour your flesh like fire. [Moved to the end of 5:1] You have been storing up treasure in the very last days;

Do not murmur against one another, brothers, lest you are judged; look, the Judge is standing at the very door!

Above all, my brothers, never swear an oath, either by heaven or by earth or by anything else; let your "yes" be a plain "yes," your "no" a plain "no," lest you incur judgment.

and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

Inasmuch as his power divine has bestowed on us every requisite for life and piety by the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence ??4 bestowing on us thereby promises precious and supreme, that by means of them you may escape the corruption produced within the world by lust, and participate in the divine nature ??5 for this very reason, do you contrive to make it your whole concern to furnish your faith with resolution, resolution with intelligence,

in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments ??men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!