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On the third day of that week there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

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Now there was a man from the Pharisees, a leader of the Jews, whose name was Nicodemus.

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He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

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"Then it will come about at a later time that I will pour out my Spirit on every person. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your elderly people will dream dreams, and your young people will see visions.

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After making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the Temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables.

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Then God said, "Let vegetation sprout all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed!" And that is what happened:

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A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, "Please give me a drink,"

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The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

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so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

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that is present in us and will be with us forever.

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Now in the sixth month of her pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,

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He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

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When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone with the woman standing there.

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Just then an expert in the Law stood up to test Jesus. He asked, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

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They asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven."

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What good does it do, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not prove it with actions? This kind of faith cannot save him, can it?

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Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah Jesus were baptized into his death?

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Likewise, older women are to show their reverence for God by their behavior. They are not to be gossips or addicted to alcohol, but to be examples of goodness.

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Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

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Now in those days an order was published by Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered.

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Don't be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man's voice

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"As for you, Bethlehem of Ephrathah, even though you remain least among the clans of Judah, nevertheless, the one who rules in Israel for me will emerge from you. His existence has been from antiquity, even from eternity.

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These people belong to the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.

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It was the evening of the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them. He told them, "Peace be with you."

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Later on, there was another festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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"Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the road is spacious that leads to destruction, and many people are entering by it.

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Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

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Then Jesus said, "A man had two sons.

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Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

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"You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

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since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food.

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On the first day of the week, early in the morning and while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and noticed that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

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Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread isn't enough for each of them to have a little."

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Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read,

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Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.

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After Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of King Herod, wise men arrived in Jerusalem from the east

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I ask not only on behalf of these men, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their message,

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All those who descended from Jacob totaled 75 persons. Now Joseph was already in Egypt.

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If you think it's the wrong thing for you to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve the gods whom your ancestors served on the other side of the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose territories you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

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Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

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"How you have fallen from heaven, Day Star, son of the Dawn! How you have been thrown down to earth, you who laid low the nation!

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That night the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

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For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

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In my first book, Theophilus, I wrote about everything Jesus did and taught from the beginning,

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Later on, Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, "Look! You have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."

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May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

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So all the people went to their hometowns to be registered.

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Did you suffer so much for nothing? (If it really was for nothing!)

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Now as they were traveling along, Jesus went into a village. A woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.

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If you give special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, "Please take this seat," but you say to the poor man, "Stand over there" or "Sit on the floor at my feet,"

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"Remember the Sabbath day, maintaining its holiness.

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Once Jesus was praying in a certain place. After he had finished, one of his disciples told him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

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Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it."

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Solomon addressed the entire nation of Israel, including the commanders of thousands and hundreds, the judges, all the other leaders of Israel, and all of the heads of the ancestral houses of Israel.

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Now large crowds were traveling with Jesus. He turned and told them,

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When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

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"Surely he has borne our sufferings and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken, and struck down by God, and afflicted.

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Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?"

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What existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we observed and touched with our own hands this is the Word of life!

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Meanwhile, still spewing death threats against the Lord's disciples, Saul went to the high priest.

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But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

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For this reason, God delivered them to degrading passions as their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural.

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"Fellow Israelis, listen to these words: Jesus from Nazareth was a man authenticated to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs that God performed through him among you, as you yourselves know.

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Then Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

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who fathered Kenan, who fathered Mahalalel, who fathered Jared,

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At this point, some of his disciples asked each other, "What does he mean by telling us, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,' and, "because I am going to the Father'?"

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Then I saw a large, white throne and the one who was sitting on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

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But he answered them, "The man who made me well told me, "Pick up your mat and walk.'"

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Now it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

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Since many people have attempted to write an orderly account of the events that have transpired among us,

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After this, the Lord appointed 70 other disciples and was about to send them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place that he intended to go.

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When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on the hill. After taking his seat, his disciples came to him,

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They had no children because Elizabeth was barren and because both of them were getting old.

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But at early dawn on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.

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Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us live our lives consistent with our confession of faith.

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Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez fathered Hezron, Hezron fathered Aram,

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Now I'm making known to you, brothers, the gospel that I proclaimed to you, which you accepted, on which you have taken your stand,

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Now after John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee and proclaimed the gospel about the kingdom of God.

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He told her, "Go and call your husband, and come back here."

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Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

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"Look, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

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Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

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You have condemned and murdered the one who is righteous, even though he did not rebel against you.

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"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

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There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

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He will make a binding covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he will suspend both the sacrifice and grain offerings. Destructive people will cause desolation on the pinnacle until it is complete and what has been decreed is poured out on the desolator.'"

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Give, and it will be given to you. A large quantity, pressed together, shaken down, and running over will be put into your lap, because you'll be evaluated by the same standard with which you evaluate others."

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And the entire congregation of people was praying outside at the time when the incense was burned.

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While he was meeting with them, he ordered them, "Don't leave Jerusalem. Instead, wait for what the Father has promised, about which you heard me speak,

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But Jesus asked him, "Mister, who appointed me to be a judge or arbitrator over you people?"

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When Zechariah was serving with his division of priests in God's presence,

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Now Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius from Cyrene, Manaen, who grew up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch.

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Then he took a loaf of bread, gave thanks, broke it in pieces, and handed it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Keep on doing this in memory of me."

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When someone is tempted, he should not say, "I am being tempted by God," because God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.

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One day, divine beings presented themselves to the LORD, and Satan accompanied them.

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To: Timothy, my dear child. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Messiah Jesus our Lord be yours!

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Abraham was as good as dead, yet from this one man came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

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When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother told him, "They don't have any more wine."

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"Similarly, it is like a man going on a trip, who called his servants and turned his money over to them.

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Aram fathered Amminadab, Amminadab fathered Nahshon, and Nahshon fathered Salmon.

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One day, as the crowd was pressing in on him to listen to God's word, Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

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Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don't repent, then you, too, will all die.

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At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

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When Zechariah saw him, he was startled, and fear overwhelmed him.

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Now those who had gathered together began to ask Jesus, "Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?"

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The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Jesus closely to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, in order to find a way of accusing him of doing something wrong.

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Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

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Jesus answered, "The most important is, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,

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Such a person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

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But then a man named Ananias, with the consent of his wife Sapphira, sold some property.

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Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."

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When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Jesus.

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Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

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One of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, told him,

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For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower in it drops off, and its beauty is gone. That is how the rich person will fade away in his pursuits.

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My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge of me. Because you rejected that knowledge, I will reject you as a priest for me. Since you forget the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.

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On the same day, two of Jesus' followers were walking to a village called Emmaus, about 60 stadia from Jerusalem.

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"Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse that there may be food in my house. So put me to the test in this right now," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and see if I won't throw open the windows of heaven for you and pour out on you blessing without measure.

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For our appeal to you does not spring from deceit, impure motives, or trickery.

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The king will answer them, "I tell all of you with certainty, since you did it for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.'

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The young men got up, wrapped him up, carried him outside, and buried him.

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I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy in this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will strike him with the plagues that are written in this book.

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Then one of the scribes came near and heard the Sadducees arguing with one another. He saw how well Jesus answered them, so he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of them all?"

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that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and spreading all over the world, so it has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.

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"Therefore, everyone who listens to these messages of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock.

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As he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.

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Brothers, this is what I mean: Mortal bodies cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and what decays cannot inherit what does not decay.

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"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD! Look to the rock from which you were cut, to the quarry from which you were hewn.

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For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you how the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread,

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God also told them, "Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant that grows throughout the earth, along with every tree that grows seed-bearing fruit. They will produce your food.

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After these things, I looked, and there was a crowd so large that no one was able to count it! They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. They were standing in front of the throne and the lamb and were wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

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"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit.

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"A fire blazes in their presence, and behind them a conflagration rages. Before they come, the land is like the garden in Eden; after they leave, there is only a barren wasteland. Indeed, nothing escapes them.

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"Please come, and let's reason together," implores the LORD. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they'll be white like snow. Though they're like crimson, they'll become like wool.

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It was while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul passed through the inland districts and came to Ephesus. He found a few disciples there

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"You have heard that it was said, "You must love your neighbor' and hate your enemy.

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For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors,

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Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. They came back to life and ruled with the Messiah for a thousand years.

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""At that time, Michael will arise, the great prince who will stand up on behalf of your people, and a time of trouble will come like there has never been since nations began until that time. Also at that time, your people will be delivered everyone who will have been written in the book.

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So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on those who practice these things and then do them yourself, do you think you will escape God's judgment?

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he was chosen by lot to go into the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense, according to the custom of the priests.

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"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.

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Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate

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At this, he permitted him to be baptized. When Jesus had been baptized, he immediately came up out of the water. Suddenly, the heavens opened up for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.

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and again in this passage, "They will never enter my rest."

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The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.

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While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and handed it to the disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. This is my body."

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Several days later, Jesus returned to Capernaum and it was reported that he was at home.

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When Jesus had come to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?"

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Then someone in the crowd told him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me."

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Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key to the bottomless pit, with a large chain in his hand.

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Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

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By reading this, you will be able to grasp my understanding of the secret about the Messiah,

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Don't be astonished that I told you, "All of you must be born from above.'

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So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell, to the fire that cannot be put out.

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Then some men came down from Judea and started to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the Law of Moses, you can't be saved."

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As Jesus was setting out again, a man ran up to him, knelt down in front of him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

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How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching?

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Now all the tax collectors and sinners kept coming to listen to Jesus.

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in my prayers at all times, asking that somehow by God's will I may at last succeed in coming to you.

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Or if he asks for an egg, would he give him a scorpion?

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"At that time, the kingdom from heaven will be comparable to ten bridesmaids who took their oil lamps and went out to meet the groom.

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But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me in white clothes because they are worthy.

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that he lavished on us, along with all wisdom and understanding,

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Sometime later, God tested Abraham. He called out to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" he answered.

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"We're wiping off your town's dust that clings to our feet in protest against you! But realize this: the kingdom of God is near!'

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As Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it,

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"A shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch will bear fruit from his roots.

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This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is found in his Son.

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There was a time when the entire earth spoke a common language with an identical vocabulary.

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"You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and trust me and understand that I am the One. Before me no God was formed, nor will there be one after me.

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The eleven disciples went into Galilee to the hillside to which Jesus had directed them.

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They were praising God and enjoying the good will of all the people. Every day the Lord was adding to their number those who were being saved.

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In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

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For when one person says, "I follow Paul," and another person says, "I follow Apollos," you're following your own human nature, aren't you?

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Later, Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have given birth to a male child the LORD."

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I am baptizing you with water as evidence of repentance, but the one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals. It is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

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Jesus himself was about 30 years old when he began his ministry. He was (as legally calculated) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,

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By common confession, the secret of our godly worship is great: In flesh was he revealed to sight, kept righteous by the Spirit's might, adored by angels singing. To nations was he manifest, believing souls found peace and rest, our Lord in heaven reigning!

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Now lifted up by God to heaven, a name above all others given, this matchless name possessing.

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Now after the population of human beings had increased throughout the earth, and daughters had been born to them,

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Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

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After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you.

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Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

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"Watch out! I'm sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly, the LORD you are looking for will come to his Temple. He is the messenger of the covenant whom you desire. Watch out! He is coming!" says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

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At that time, some people who were there told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

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"You have heard that it was told those who lived long ago, "You are not to commit murder,' and, "Whoever murders will be subject to punishment.'

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Listen to this message from the LORD, you descendants of Jacob and all the families of the descendants of Israel.

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"Everyone who keeps on hearing these messages of mine and never puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

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So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth were called "the uncircumcised" by those who called themselves "the circumcised." They underwent physical circumcision done by human hands.

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You learned about this gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of the Messiah on your behalf.

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Later on, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. This is what happened:

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and under these a large number of sick people were lying blind, lame, or paralyzed waiting for the movement of the water.

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Then the offering to the LORD by Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable as it was in the past, even as in former years.

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This message from the LORD came to me:

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In the presence of God and the Messiah Jesus, who is going to judge those who are living and those who are dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly appeal to you

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So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

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"You are not to craft for yourselves an idol or anything resembling what is in the skies above, or on earth beneath, or in the water sources under the earth.

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For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine, but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people's own desires.

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They kept the matter to themselves but argued about what "rising from the dead" meant.

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These are the records of the universe at its creation. Onthe day that the LORD God made the earth and skies,

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Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Caesar Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

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The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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"Listen to this message, you fat cows from Bashan, who live on the Samaritan mountains, who oppress the poor, who rob the needy, and who constantly ask your husbands for one more drink!"

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For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

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Then Peter stood up among the eleven apostles and raised his voice to address them:

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But not even Titus, who was with me, was forced to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

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Then Jesus looked at his disciples and said, "How blessed are you who are destitute, because the kingdom of God is yours!

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yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

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Just then a man came up to Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what good deed should I do to have eternal life?"

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Now if their stumbling means riches for the world, and if their fall means riches for the gentiles, how much more will their full participation mean!

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"Speak to the Israelis and tell them that when any person brings an offering to the LORD from among you, whether he brings on offering of animals from either cattle or flock,

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Once, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of fortune-telling and who had brought her owners a great deal of money by predicting the future.

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From Miletus he sent messengers to Ephesus to ask the elders of the church to meet with him.

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Let me tell you a secret. Not all of us will die, but all of us will be changed

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While Peter was still making this statement, the Holy Spirit fell on all the people who were listening to his message.

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Jesus, however, went to the Mount of Olives.

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"To the messenger of the church in Laodicea, write: "The Amen, the witness who is faithful and true, the originator of God's creation, says this:

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John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

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"I've come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze!

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During the reign of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly order of Abijah. His wife was a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

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Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.

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I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now), so that I might reap a harvest among you, just as I have among the rest of the gentiles.

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"Why do you keep calling me "Lord, Lord,' but don't do what I tell you?

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As they were going along the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, "Look, there's some water. What keeps me from being baptized?"

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Josiah fathered Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

790

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your mint, dill, and cummin, but have neglected the more important matters of the Law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These are the things you should have practiced, without neglecting the others.

797

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God stopped working on everything that he had been creating.

799

He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."

807

Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

811

Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

813

"Take a census of the entire Israeli community, numbering them by their tribes and by ancestral houses. List the names of every male one-by-one,

815

Having been circumcised on the eighth day, I am of the nation of Israel, from the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. As far as the Law is concerned, I was a Pharisee.

816

And look at ships! They are so big that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the helmsman directs.

818

"During the reigns of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor its sovereignty left in the hands of another people. It will shatter and crush all of these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

819

Then Jesus returned to Galilee by the power of the Spirit. Meanwhile, the news about him spread throughout the surrounding country.

820

If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

821

Look at my hands and my feet, because it's really me. Touch me and look at me, because a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones as you see that I have."

828

After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, to Tiberias).

829

That day, when evening had come, he told them, "Let's cross to the other side."

834

LORD, you have examined me; you have known me.

836

"Look! The days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine throughout the land not a famine of food or a thirst for water but rather a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

838

For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another.

839

I was overjoyed when some brothers arrived and testified about your truthfulness and how you live according to the truth

846

Nicodemus asked him, "How can that be?"

847

I tell you, on the last day it will be easier for Sodom than for that town!"

850

Now in Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment.

851

Meanwhile, Moses continued tending the sheep that belonged to his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the sheep to the western desert and came to Horeb, God's mountain, where

852

When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and announced, "I am God Almighty. Live in constant awareness that I'm always with you, and be blameless.

853

Then they began to discuss among themselves which one of them was going to do this.

856

When all the people had been baptized, Jesus, too, was baptized. While he was praying, heaven opened,

859

and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws that he gave us through his servants the prophets.

861

Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him. But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.

864

After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside. He spent some time there with them and began baptizing.

866

When the days grew closer for Jesus to be taken up to heaven, he was determined to continue his journey to Jerusalem.

867

Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.

871

Some people were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

872

Now about eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John, and James with him and went up on a mountain to pray.

875

I'm a flower from Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

876

To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

879

"Will a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you ask, "How are we robbing you?' "By the tithe and the offering.

881

"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

882

For it is impossible to keep on restoring to repentance time and again people who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have become partners with the Holy Spirit,

883

It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus.

888

Jesus immediately had the disciples get into a boat and cross to the other side ahead of him, while he sent the crowds away.

889

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God himself has made it plain to them.

890

They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, "Pick it up and walk'?"

891

Now Jesus was saying to the disciples, "A rich man had a servant manager who was accused of wasting his assets.

897

Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from two to three measures.

903

They arrived at the other side of the sea in the territory of the Gerasenes.

905

Isn't he really speaking for our benefit? Yes, this was written for our benefit, because the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one who threshes should thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

906

No one remembers those in the past, nor will they be remembered by those who come after them.

907

For I want to let you know about this secret, brothers, so that you will not claim to be wiser than you are: Stubbornness has come to part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles comes to faith.

908

After Moses and Aaron arrived, they told Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Let my people go so they may make a pilgrimage for me in the desert.'"

909

"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamore trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.'

912

Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come. He answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with a visible display.

915

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

916

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.

917

so will my message be that goes out of my mouth it won't return to me empty. Instead, it will accomplish what I desire, and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

921

Now Saul heartily approved of putting Stephen to death. That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except for the apostles was scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria.

928

Yet I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I am living in this bodily tent,

929

The LORD God commanded the man: "You may freely eat from every tree of the garden,

932

Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem."

933

For if we choose to go on sinning after we have learned the full truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

935

Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.

940

The Jewish leaders said, "This sanctuary has been under construction for 46 years, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?"

942

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

951

This is the very reason I wrote you, so that when I did come I might not be made sad by those who should have made me happy. For I had confidence that all of you would share the joy that I have.

952

Then his disciples began to ask him what this parable meant.

954

There once was a man in the land of Uz named Job. The man was blameless as well as upright. He feared God and kept away from evil.

957

From: Paul, an apostle of the Messiah Jesus by God's will. To: His holy and faithful people in Ephesus who are in union with the Messiah Jesus.

961

I am not saying this because I am in any need, for I have learned to be content in whatever situation I am in.

966

They kept saying, "What is this "in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

968

"Now you must fear the LORD and serve him in faithfulness and truth. Throw away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Instead, serve the LORD.

969

Asaph fathered Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat fathered Joram, Joram fathered Uzziah,

970

Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"

975

So Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

976

So Paul stood up in front of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every way.

977

As you come to him, the living stone who was rejected by people but was chosen and precious in God's sight,

978

He presented another parable to them: "The kingdom from heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

979

And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

980

Every year Jesus' parents would go to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.

984

21Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you because I know that you will do even more than I ask.

993

Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.