Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar; Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Aram,

And from the days of John the Baptist until the present moment the kingdom of heaven has been continuously taken by storm, and those who take it by storm are seizing it as a precious prize.

For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?

just as the Son of Man has come, not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

In that way the words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: "They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one whose price had been fixed by some Israelites,

For what price can a man give to buy back life?

For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

because his only daughter, about twelve years old, was dying. While He was going, the crowds of people continued to press upon Him.

But they continued to press him with loud voices in their ceaseless demands that He be crucified, and their shouts began to prevail.

Many people who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them up before the public gaze. They estimated the price of them and found it to be ten thousand dollars.

He had as companions Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.

After hoisting it on board, they used ropes to brace the ship, and since they were afraid of being stranded on the Syrtis quicksands, they lowered the sail and let her drift.

Do you not know, brothers -- for I speak to those who are acquainted with the law -- that the law can press its claim over a man only so long as he lives?

Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.

I prize and praise you for always remembering me and for firmly standing by the teachings as I passed them on to you.

who is the first installment of our inheritance, so that we may finally come into full possession of the prize of redemption, and praise His glory for it.

I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.

So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth's vine, and flung them into the wine press of God's wrath,

The grapes in the wine press were trodden outside the city, and blood streamed from the wine press until it reached the horses' bridles for a distance of two hundred miles.

From His mouth shot a sharp sword, so that He could smite the nations with it. He will rule them with a scepter of iron, and will tread the wine press of the raging wrath of the Almighty God.