While he was still speaking, a bright cloud cast its shadow over them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I am delighted. Keep on listening to Him!"

If you know all this, happy are you if you practice it.

Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him."

If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

to men who have no written law, like one without any law, though I am not without God's law but specially under Christ's law, to win the men who have no written law.

For I am demolishing arguments and every barrier that is raised against the genuine knowledge of God, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ,

For you are aware of the instructions which we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

in a flame of fire, who will take vengeance on those who do not know God, that is, those who will not listen to the good news of our Lord Jesus.

and because He was perfectly qualified for it He became the author of endless salvation for all who obey Him,

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All things have been entrusted to me by my Father, and no one but the Father perfectly knows the Son, and no one but the Son perfectly knows the Father, and the one to whom the Son chooses to make Him known.

and teach them to practice all the commands that I have given you. And I myself will surely be with you all the days, down to the very close of an age."

"So why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not practice what I tell you?

So the people went out to see what had taken place, and they went to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, with his clothes on and in his right mind; and they were frightened.

She had a sister named Mary who took her seat at the Lord's feet, and remained listening to His message.

For I have set you an example, in order that you too may practice what I have done to you.

Moses, indeed, said: 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, as He did me. You must attentively listen to everything that He tells you.

It was this Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among you, just as He did me.'

But this is not the way you have learned what Christ means,

Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had.

Whoever claims, "I am always in union with Him," ought to live as He lived.

For

He will not debate, nor challenge anyone; His voice will no one hear in the streets;

"Tell the daughter of Zion, your King is now coming to you, gentle, and riding on a donkey, yea, on the colt of a beast of burden."

Now as the time was coming to a head when He should be taken up to heaven, He firmly set His face to continue His journey to Jerusalem;

Now I appeal to you in person, by the gentleness and fairness of Christ, I, Paul, who am so "condescending when face to face with you, but so courageous toward you when far away!"

but He laid it aside as He took on the nature of a slave and became like other men.

Indeed, it was to this kind of living that you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow His footsteps.

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Come to me, all of you who toil and carry burdens, and I, yes, I, will lead you into rest.

For we who have believed are being admitted to that rest, just as He has said: "As in my anger I took oath, they shall not be admitted to my rest," although God's works had been completed at the creation of the world.

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He will not debate, nor challenge anyone; His voice will no one hear in the streets;

They tie up heavy burdens and fasten them on men's shoulders, but they refuse to lift a finger to help bear them.

Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had.