I solemnly tell you that you will certainly not be released till you have paid the very last farthing.

but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark. If however the very light within you is darkness, how dense must the darkness be!

and the men, filled with amazement, exclaimed, "What kind of man is this? for the very winds and waves obey him!"

And whoever refuses to receive you or even to listen to your Message, as you leave that house or town, shake off the very dust from your feet.

But when they have delivered you up, have no anxiety as to how you shall speak or what you shall say; for at that very time it shall be given you what to say;

But as for you, the very hairs on your heads are all numbered.

"Sir," he said, "have pity on my son, for he is an epileptic and is very ill. Often he falls into the fire and often into the water.

For just as the lightning flashes in the east and is seen to the very west, so will be the Coming of the Son of Man.

So you also, when you see all these signs, may be sure that He is near--at your very door.

At that time, before the Deluge, men were busy eating and drinking, taking wives or giving them, up to the very day when Noah entered the Ark,

a woman came to Him with a jar of very costly, sweet-scented ointment, which she poured over His head as He reclined at table.

"In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that this very night, before the cock crows, you will three times disown me."

and He said to them, "My soul is crushed with anguish to the very point of death; wait here, and keep awake with me."

He came and again found them asleep, for they were very tired.

The people listened with amazement to His teaching--for there was authority about it: it was very different from that of the Scribes--

But wherever they will not receive you or listen to you, when you leave shake off the very dust from under your feet to bear witness concerning them."

As they were coming down from the mountain, He very strictly forbad them to tell any one what they had seen "until after the Son of Man has risen from among the dead."

So the Scribe said to Him, "Rightly, in very truth, Rabbi, have you said that He stands alone, and there is none but He;

So also do you, when you see these things happening, be sure that He is near, at your very door.

Now when He was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while He was at table, there came a woman with a jar of pure, sweet-scented ointment very costly: she broke the jar and poured the ointment over His head.

and He said to them, "My heart is oppressed with anguish to the very point of death: wait here and keep awake."

He again went away and prayed, using the very same words.

When He returned He again found them asleep, for they were very tired; and they knew not how to answer Him.

So, very soon after sunrise on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb;

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; no wine or fermented drink shall he ever drink; but he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from the very hour of his birth.

There was also Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, belonging to the tribe of Asher. She was of a very great age, having had after her maidenhood seven years of married life,

he answered the question by saying to them all, "As for me, I am baptizing you with water, but One mightier than I is coming, whose very sandal-strap I am not worthy to unfasten: He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and with fire.

"Blessed are you when men shall hate you and exclude you from their society and insult you, and spurn your very names as evil things, for the Son of Man's sake.

Wherever they refuse to receive you, as you leave that town shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."

"'The very dust of your town that hangs about us we wipe off as a protest. Only be sure of this, that the Kingdom of God is close at hand.'

But the very hairs on your heads are all counted. Away with fear: you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.'

for the Holy Spirit shall teach you at that very moment what you must say."

If then you are unable to do even a very little thing, why be over-anxious about other matters?

The man who is honest in a very small matter is honest in a great one also; and he who is dishonest in a very small matter is dishonest in a great one also.

Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all.

"'Well done, good servant,' he replied; 'because you have been faithful in a very small matter, be in authority over ten towns.'

"I tell you," He replied, "that if *they* became silent, the very stones would cry out."

The Master turned and looked on Peter; and Peter recollected the Master's words, how He had said to him, "This very day, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times."

And on that very day Herod and Pilate became friends again, for they had been for some time at enmity.

"I tell you in solemn truth," replied Jesus, "that this very day you shall be with me in Paradise."

See my hands and my feet--it is my very self. Feel me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see I have."

"But the testimony which I have is weightier than that of John; for the work the Father has assigned to me for me to bring it to completion--the very work which I am doing--affords testimony concerning me that the Father has sent me.

"Rabbi," they said, "this woman has been found in the very act of committing adultery.

"I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

Availing herself of the opportunity, Mary took a pound weight of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over His feet, and wiped His feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Now Judas also, who at that very time was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often resorted there with His disciples.

On the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from it.

Meanwhile God's Message continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem very greatly increased, and very many priests obeyed the faith.

"Now at that very moment three men came to the house where we were, having been sent from Caesarea to find me.

Now when Herod was on the point of taking him out of prison, that very night Peter was asleep between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards were on duty outside the door.

and recognizing Peter's voice, for very joy she did not open the door, but ran in and told them that Peter was standing there.

who have endangered their very lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Jews at Beroea were of a nobler disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they very readily received the Message, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether it was as Paul stated.

I am with you, and no one shall attack you to injure you; for I have very many people in this city."

For Paul's plan was to sail past Ephesus, so as not to spend much time in the province of Asia; since he was very desirous of being in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of the Harvest Festival.

Festus, however, replied that Paul was in custody in Caesarea, and that he was himself going there very soon.

I have nothing very definite, however, to tell our Sovereign about him. So I have brought the man before you all--and especially before you, King Agrippa--that after he has been examined I may find something which I can put into writing.

But rise, and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you My servant and My witness both as to the things you have already seen and as to those in which I will appear to you.

For, from the very creation of the world, His invisible perfections--namely His eternal power and divine nature--have been rendered intelligible and clearly visible by His works, so that these men are without excuse.

and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.

"It is for this very purpose that I have lifted you so high--that I may make manifest in you My power, and that My name may be proclaimed far and wide in all the earth."

And David says, "Let their very food become a snare and a trap to them, a stumbling-block and a retribution.

Why, this is really the reason you pay taxes; for tax-gatherers are ministers of God, devoting their energies to this very work.

who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I however am very little concerned at undergoing your scrutiny, or that of other men; in fact I do not even scrutinize myself.

To this very moment we endure both hunger and thirst, with scanty clothing and many a blow.

If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you; for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal of my Apostleship.

What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.

For we are writing to you nothing different from what we have written before, or from what indeed you already recognize as truth and will, I trust, recognize as such to the very end;

For if I of all men give you pain, who then is there to gladden my heart, but the very persons to whom I give pain?

Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day during the reading of the book of the ancient Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted, because it is only in Christ that it is to be abolished.

And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.

I have great confidence in you: very loudly do I boast of you. I am filled with comfort: my heart overflows with joy amid all our affliction.

For mark the effects of this very thing--your having sorrowed with a godly sorrow--what earnestness it has called forth in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing affection, what jealousy, what meting out of justice! You have completely wiped away reproach from yourselves in the matter.

Yes, just as you are already very rich in faith, readiness of speech, knowledge, unwearied zeal, and in the love that is in you, implanted by us, see to it that this grace of liberal giving also flourishes in you.

For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient.

Therefore be very careful how you live and act. Let it not be as unwise men, but as wise.

I have sent him to you for the very purpose--that you may know about us and that he may encourage you.

because it was for the sake of Christ's work that he came so near death, hazarding, as he did, his very life in endeavouring to make good any deficiency that there might be in your gifts to me.

It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming,

And for this very purpose I send him to you that you may know how we are faring; and that he may cheer your hearts.

Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.

and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

and exalts himself above, every so-called 'god' or object of worship, and goes the length of taking his seat in the very temple of God, giving it out that he himself is God.

To the pure everything is pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure, but on the contrary their very minds and consciences are polluted.

Therefore, though I might with Christ's authority speak very freely and order you to do what is fitting,

For although, considering the long time you have been believers, you ought now to be teachers of others, you really need some one to teach you over again the very rudiments of the truths of God, and you have come to require milk instead of solid food.

But we long for each of you to continue to manifest the same earnestness, with a view to your enjoying fulness of hope to the very End;

But *you* have put dishonour upon the poor man. Yet is it not the rich who grind you down? Are not they the very people who drag you into the Law courts? --

and the very people who speak evil of the noble Name by which you are called?

So too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice of the man at the helm chooses.

To them it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you, when they foretold the very things which have now been openly declared to you by those who, having been taught by the Holy Spirit which had been sent from Heaven, brought you the Good News. Angels long to stoop and look into these things.

It is by means of these that He has granted us His precious and wondrous promises, in order that through them you may, one and all, become sharers in the very nature of God, having completely escaped the corruption which exists in the world through earthly cravings.

But for this very reason--adding, on your part, all earnestness-- along with your faith, manifest also a noble character: along with a noble character, knowledge;

Their very eyes are full of adultery--being eyes which never cease from sin. These men set traps to catch unstedfast souls, their own hearts being well trained in greed. They are fore-doomed to God's curse!

But whoever obeys His Message, in him love for God has in very deed reached perfection. By this we can know that we are in Him.

My dearly-loved friends, it is no new command that I am now giving you, but an old command which you have had from the very beginning. By the old command I mean the teaching which you have already received.