For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.

"and whoever receives one such child for my sake, receives me.

"You whited sepulcher," exclaimed Paul, "God will strike you! You are sitting there to judge me according to the law, are you? And do you command me to be struck, contrary to the Law?"

"Go home to your own people, and tell them what great things God has done for you, and has had mercy upon you."

Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold thy King cometh to thee, Gentle and sitting upon an ass, And upon a colt, the fool of a beast of burden."

"If God then so clothes the grass of the field, which blooms today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith?

Not that I am sufficient in myself to reach any conclusion in my own wisdom; but my sufficiency is from God.

As Paul thus made his defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice. "Paul, you are raving mad; your great learning is driving you mad."

even as it is written. Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; but he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame.

He shouted with a mighty cry, saying. "She is fallen! She is fallen, Babylon the great! Now she is a dwelling-place of demons, A stronghold of every foul spirit, A stronghold of every foul and hateful bird.

Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

"To what shall I compare this generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-place, who call to the other children,

"Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me.

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and a good hope in grace,

Not yet have you resisted unto blood in your fight against sin;

John bore witness concerning him, and cried aloud, saying, "This is he of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me, for he was before me.'"

I shall therefore be always ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it, and are firmly founded in the truth which is with you.

"The next day he took two silver pieces and gave them to the landlord and said, "'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will repay it to you on my way back.'

By this time the season was far advanced, and sailing had become dangerous (for the Autumn Fast was past); so Paul began to warn them.

and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

And I saw, and lo, a white horse, and he who sat on him had a bow; and there was given him a crown; and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

Let us then go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

"'And I will say to my soul, "'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years! Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.'

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, salutes you, and Marcus, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions; if he comes to you, make him welcome), and Jesus surnamed Justas.

"But having obtained the help that comes from God, I stand even to this day witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said should come;

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you.

But when day was dawning Jesus stood on the beach. The disciples, however, did not recognize that it was Jesus.

and so they passed by Mysia and went on down to Troas.

For it is through law I died to law, in order to live to God.

"For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have neither reverence for God nor regard for man,

"Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

"What kind of things?" he answered. And they said: "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

"How is it," he asked them, "that they say that Christ is David's son?

"I tell you that among all that are born of women not one is greater than John; yet he that is little in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

"Ha! Jesus of Nazareth, what business have you with us? Are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are, you holy one of God!"

"for with what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and in what measure you measure, others will measure to you.

And it has been granted to her to array herself in fine linen, bright and pure; For the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints."

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

This too, is the reason why you pay taxes; because the authorities are ministers of God's service, attending continually upon this very thing.

he still remained where he was for two days; then after that he said to his disciples, "Let us go back again to Judea."

"Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.

"Come and have breakfast," said Jesus to them. Not one of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" Knowing that it was the Lord.

Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?"

For men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreligious,

idol-worship, sorcery, quarrels, party-spirit, jealousy, passionate anger, intrigues, factions, sectarianism,

"Look carefully! Perhaps that very light of yours is darkness.

"And why do you also keep transgressing the command of God by your tradition?" he asked.

"not to all the people, but to witnesses??en previously chosen by God??hat is, to us, who ate and drank with him after he had risen from the dead;

When he wished to cross over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples in Corinth to receive him. On his arrival he mightily helped those who through grace had believed,

A short time after this King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and reduced them to ashes, thus holding them up as a warning to all who would live ungodly;

He continued to preach the kingdom of God, and to teach about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, quite unmolested.

Faithful is the saying. "If we have died with him, we shall also live with him.

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, nay, and old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. That old commandment is the message to which you have listened.

And after the angel who was speaking to him was gone, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier who was in constant attendance upon him,

And the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join that chariot."

"We strictly forbade you, did we not, to teach about this Name, and here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us."

"In that same town there was a widow who came again and again before him, saying, "'Do for me the justice of my adversary.'

Then one of them did strike a blow at the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear.

Then they all shouted again. "No, not him! Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

who will mock him, spit upon him, flog him, and put him to death; and after three days he will rise again."

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

"therefore do and observe whatever they bid you; but do not do as they do, for they preach, but do not practise.

"And why do you look at the splinter that is in your brother's eye, but never consider the beam that is in your own eye?

After this he appeared in another form to two of them as they were walking on their way into the country.

Now three days later he called the leading Jews together, and when they were come together he said to them. "Brothers, I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of your fathers.

"Be ye watchful lest any one mislead you. Many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and will mislead many.

"But pray that your flight may not be in the winter; nor on a Sabbath;

"Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and sister and mother."

Then he sent two of his disciples, and told them. "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a jar of water.

Then they all laid hold of Sosthenes, the warden of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal; but Gallio took no notice.

For I tell you that I certainly will not eat again until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you should see the glory of God?"

Jesus said: "He who has bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is altogether clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

So the churches were strengthened in the faith and continued to increase in number daily.

and all thine are mine, and mine are thine; and I am glorified in them.

So the troops and their commandant and the Jewish police took Jesus, and bound him,

"Again he sent out other slaves. 'Tell the invited guests,' he said, 'that my luncheon is now ready; my oxen and fat cattle are killed; everything is ready; come to the wedding-feast.'

"For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh;

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.

"He who is not for me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me is scattering.

After finishing his instructions to his twelve disciples, Jesus left that place, in order to teach and to preach in the neighboring cities.

and opening his lips he began to teach them, saying.

If indeed some one is coming to preach another Jesus, whom I did not preach, or you are receiving a Spirit other than you once received, or another gospel which you did not accept before, you would do well to bear with me.

And a woman who for twelve years had had a hemorrhage, and had spent on doctors all that she had, but none had cured her,

For others, of their own accord, tell about the welcome I had from you, and how you turned to God from your idols, to be slaved of a true and living God,

Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You are permitted to speak for yourself." So Paul stretched forth his hand and began to make his defense.

but he must be hospitable, a lover of the good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled.

So they began upbraiding her, but Jesus said: "Let her alone. Why are you troubling her?

"But when, on my journey, I was nearing Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light from heaven shone round about me.

When they had crossed over they landed at Gennesaret and moored to the shore.

"I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?"

"When daily I was with you in the temple you did not stretch out your hands to take me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness."

When his relatives heard of it, they came to take possession of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which he had girded himself.

Jesus answered them. "I have told you, and you do not believe. The works which I am doing in my Father's name, these bear witness concerning me.

But to the women the angel said: "You need have no fear, for I know that you are seeking Jesus, the Crucified One.

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

"If I am a criminal and have done anything for which I ought to die, I do not object to die. But if none of their charges is true, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar."

Day after day he continued to teach in the Temple. The high priests and scribes tried to have him put to death, so did the rulers of the people.

"And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the bottomless pit will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

So Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

"'No,' he answered, 'for fear lest while you are collecting the tares, you at the same time pull up the wheat.

Now these things, brothers, I have applied in a figure to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that in us you might learn not to go beyond what is written; that none of you be puffed up for the one, against the other.

And they began to call Barnabas "Zeus," and Paul, since he was the principal speaker, "Hermes";

"I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father."

So Paul was sent for, and then Tertullus began to accuse him, saying. "As it is owing to your excellency that we enjoy profound peace, and that the state of this nation,

who alone possesses immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

But he turned round, and looked upon his disciples, and rebuked Peter. "Get thee behind me, Satan," he said, "for your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but man's."

"'But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with harlots, you have killed him the fatted calf.'

But if any man is suffering as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him ever glorify God in this Name.

these came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. "Sir," they said, "we want to see Jesus."

for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes.

Jesus answered them saying. "They who are well have no need of a physician, but they who are ill.

As soon as Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Come down quickly, Zaccheus, for today I must stay at your house."

So when the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted. "Crucify him! Crucify him!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate, "for I find no crime in him."

"That he we should be delivered out of the Hand of our enemies, And should serve him without fear,

And there issues from his lips a sharp sword with which to smite the nations. He shall shepherd them with a rod of iron. And he treads the winepress of the passion of the anger of Almighty God.

"The patriarchs out of jealousy sold Joseph into Egypt.

Take, my brothers, for an example the suffering and the patience of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

"Then how is it that each one of us hears them speak his own mother tongue?

Do you therefore, beloved, because you know these things beforehand, be on your guard lest you be led astray by the error of the wicked, and so fall from your own stedfastness.

When he noticed this the Pharisee, who had invited him, said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet he would have perceived who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, and would know that she is a sinner."

In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.

This he said to show by what kind of death Peter was to glorify God. After speaking thus, he said to him, "Follow me."

If boast I must, it shall be concerning my weakness.

no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison.

As you lay all these things before the brothers, you will be a noble minister of Christ Jesus, nourishing yourself in the precepts of the faith and that noble teaching which you have followed.

not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called??o inherit a blessing.

In the same way also at this time there is a remnant chosen by gift of grace.

But Martha meanwhile was growing distracted about much serving. She came up to him and said: "Lord do you not care that my sister has left me alone to do the serving? Come tell her to take hold of her end of the work along with me."

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

"men lifeless through fear, and foreboding of that which is about to come upon the habitable earth. For the powers of the heavens shall be shaken,

IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD!

"For Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. He said to them, "I am he." (Now Judas also, the betrayer, was standing with them.)

Then all his disciples forsook him and fled; but those who had apprehended Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had assembled.

Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven he blessed, broke the loaves in pieces, and kept giving to the disciples to distribute.

In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

And so, beloved, since you are looking for these things, continually give diligence that you may be found in peace, unspotted and blameless in his sight.

"While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

"'I fast twice a week, I pay tithes of all my possessions.'

Do not continue to drink nothing but water, but take a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent attacks of illness.

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

Some fell on rocky ground where there was not much earth. Now because it had no depth of soil, it sprang up at once;

and he exerts the full authority of the first beast before him, and he makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose death-stroke was healed.

He who is not against us is for us.

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and a great quantity of incense was given him to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne.

And he cried with a loud voice. "Fear God and give him glory, Because the hour of his judgment is come. And worship Him who made the heavens and the earth And the sea and springs of waters."

Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"

"But that the dead are raised, even Moses clearly implied in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord. "The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.

If you are left without discipline, in which all children share, then are you bastards and not sons.

So Pilate gave sentence what they wished should be done.

Then the devil took him up into the Holy City and stood him on the parapet of the temple,

And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising, having a seal of the living God; and he cried with a great voice to the four angels to whom it was given to injure the earth and the sea,

She persisted in this for many days, until Paul, worn out, turned round and said to the spirit, "I charge you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her." In that very hour it came out of her.

Must brother go to law with brother, and that, too, before unbelievers?

"but they devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive severer condemnation."

and their teaching will spread like a gangrene.

"Those by the wayside are people who hear, but then comes the devil and carries off the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and not be saved.

"You do not gather figs from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord.

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And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprit's meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.

and at dawn you say, 'It will storm today, for the sky is red and lowering.' You know how to discern the look of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot read.

They were searching to know to what time, or to what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them kept pointing, when he ever testified beforehand concerning the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

I saw no other apostle except James, the Lord's brother.

And this became known to all the people of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. Awe fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus began to be held in honor.

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

"and all the nations will be gathered in his presence. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats;

He came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'so will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the owner of this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

"I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day, in regard to all the accusations brought against me by the Jews;

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

So they led him to the place called Golgotha?? name which means "the place of a skull."

"Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? How is it that he now says, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

"from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the alter and the sanctuary; yes; I tell you, it shall be required of this generation!

in order that he might show to the ages to come the amazing riches of his grace by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus.

"you and your children within you. And they will not leave in you one stone upon the another. Because you knew not the time of your visitation."

It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the soil, is the smallest seed in the world;

If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.

"This is the covenant I will make with them After those days," says the Lord. "I will set my laws upon their hearts, And I will inscribe them on their minds."

Do not be deceived, my brothers!

"Leave the dead to bury their own dead," said Jesus to him, "go you and announce, far and wide the kingdom of God."

He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.

They both began to run; and the other disciple ran faster than Peter, and came first to the tomb.

"The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

And when they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but continued on his way rejoicing.

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

went to the chief priests and said, "What are you ready to give me for betraying him to you?" So they weighed him thirty pieces of silver;

Then Barnabas visited Tarsus, to try to find Saul,

For you yourselves know, brothers, that my visit to you did not fail of its purpose;

When they got to the shore they beheld a charcoal fire ready laid, with fish on it, and some bread.

Hold aloof from every form of evil.

"And then shall the just shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears to hear, listen!

But Jesus uttered a loud cry and expired.

"Woe unto the world because of such stumbling-blocks! They will surely come, but woe unto each man by whom they come!

Finally, brothers, pray on for me, that God's word may run swiftly, and be glorified as in your own case,

That perfume could have been sold for more than one hundred and fifty dollars, and given to the poor."

Luke, the beloved physician, salutes you, and so does Demas.

Give to every one who asks you; And do not demand your goods back from him who is taking them away.

But Jesus called his disciples to him and said: "My heart yearns over the crowd, for they have been with me now three days, and they have nothing to eat. I am not willing to send them away hungry, for fear they faint on the road."

The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks, is this. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches."

Whoever continually abides in him does not habitually sin; whoever lives in sin has not seen him, nor come to know him.

But when sin had gained a vantage-ground, by means of the commandment, it stirred up within me all manner of lust; for where there is no law, sin is dead.

But all his acquaintances and the women who had been his followers continued to stand at a distance, looking on.

When she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but did not know that it was Jesus.

Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."

For true and righteous are his judgments; For he has judged the great harlot Who was corrupting the earth with her fornication. On her he has avenged the blood of his slaves."

"Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who should betray him.

"Which commandments?" asked the man. Jesus replied. "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness;

When he arrived, and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord, with full purpose of heart;

"We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is God-fearing and does his will, to such he listens.

By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed, although she was past the age for child-bearing, because she counted Him faithful who had promised;

Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later."

The last enemy that will be destroyed is Death.

And when he was twelve years old they went up, as was customary, at the time of the feast

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord;

"Behold my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, is my brother and sister and mother."

"Woe unto you lawyers also!" said Jesus, "for you load men with irksome burdens, and you yourselves will not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

First when it is said, Thou hast no longing for, thou takest no delight in Sacrifices and offerings, or whole burnt offerings and sin offerings,

Of such a one I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast except in my weaknesses.

Do not reprimand an aged man, but continue pleading with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers,

"Rabbi," his disciples asked him, "who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

And the crowds who preceded and those who followed after him shouted again and again, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

For I will have mercy upon their wrong-doings, And their sins I will remember no more."

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of beautiful pearls.

For you, then, that believe, is the preciousness; but for those who do not believe, A stone which the builders rejected, The same has become the head stone of the corner,

And as they were departing a dumb demoniac was brought to him,

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's decree.

and what I say to you, I say to all. Be awake and on guard."

He bore witness of the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all the things that he saw.

"You will be betrayed even by parents or brothers and kinsfolk, and friends.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all mankind most pitiable.

I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me.

and James(them he surnamed Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder),

So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father."

"That tabernacle was brought in by our ancestors, in their turn, when they under Joshua entered on the possession of the nations whom God thrust out before them, until the days of David.

It was now the fourteenth night, and we were drifting through the Adriatic Sea when, about midnight, the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near to some land.

For just as in the days before the deluge they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the very day when Noah entered the ark,

Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came to him, and in order to test him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

teaching as he journeyed toward Jerusalem. And a man came behind him and said, "Lord are there but few that are saved?"

The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing.

It is but just that I should be thus mindful of you all, because I have you in my heart, and because in these fetters of mine and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel you are all my fellow partners in the privilege.

and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling-place of God through his Spirit.

Behold my servant whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom my soul delights; I will breathe my spirit upon him, and he shall announce justice to the Gentiles.

So when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that on the contrary a riot was threatening, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying. "I am innocent of the blood of this man; you must answer for it."

Now when Herod saw Jesus he was exceedingly glad. He had long been wanting to see him, because he had heard so much about him, and was hoping to see some miracles performed by him.

while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart??nd that is what defiles a man.

But on the other hand, in these sacrifices sins are called to memory, year after year.

A woman in labor has grief because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the babe she no longer remembers her anguish, because of joy that a child has been born into the world.

Furthermore, our earthly fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

I pray that you may prosper, beloved, in every way, and be in good health, even as your soul is prospering.

"For all these are things that the Gentiles are eagerly seeking; for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of them all.

If we say, "We have not sinned," we are making him a liar, and his word is not in us.

This testimony is true. So rebuke them sharply,

where their worm never dies and the fire does not go out.

So you also have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy shall no man snatch away from you.

And lo! there was in front of him a man who had dropsy.

After saying this, he remained in Galilee; but after his brothers had gone up to feast,

This John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Instantly something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

Some days later Felix came, with his wife Drusilla, a Jewess; he sent for Paul, and listened to him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Then they all forsook him and fled.

and to them it was his practice never to speak except in parables. But he used to explain everything in private to his disciples.

Then the brothers at once sent Paul down to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained behind.

After they had bound him, they led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman Governor.

but to those who are the called, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

These are the names of the apostles (missionaries). First, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;

Here is the mind that has wisdom. the seven heads are seven hills on which the woman is seated;

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, and vain also is your faith.

The first angel went and poured out his bowl upon the earth. And it was turned to loathsome and painful sores upon all who bore the brand of the beast, and who worshiped his image.

And I, John, am he who heard and saw these things. And after I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me.

Now as they were leaving Jericho a great crowd followed him.

"How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?"

and on entering they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

and called out with a loud cry. "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is your unborn child!

This charge then, I am laying upon you, Timothy, my son, according to the predictions formerly made concerning you. Fight the good fight in the spirit of these predictions,

Then he came the third time, and said: "Sleep on now, and take your rest! It is over. My hour is come. Look! the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

And he answered. "Elijah is coming, and will restore all things.

and so that the Gentiles also should praise God for his mercy, as it is written, Therefore I will offer praise to thee among the Gentiles, And sing to thy name.

For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death.

and were continually in the temple, blessing God.

and will go forth to seduce the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to marshal them for war??heir number is like the sands of the sea.

And all the Jewish believers who had accompanied Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the Gentiles also.

they asked him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Surely," said Jesus, "and have you never read, Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"

Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen inside his sanctuary; and there followed lightnings and voices and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.

So Jesus went to Peter and John saying, "Go and prepare for us the Passover, that we may eat it."

Am I then become your enemy, because I am telling you the truth?

"And so is fulfilled the word written in their Law, 'They hate me without cause.'

Some of those who were present said among themselves indignantly. "Why has the perfume been wasted like this?

But they, although they heard that he was living and had been seen by her did not believe it.

Thus speak, exhort, reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Others again bore trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, even of chains and imprisonment.

he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death, in order that he may bring you into his presence, holy and unblemished and irreproachable.

but when he saw them distressed in rowing (for the wind was against them), about the fourth watch of the night he went to them, walking upon the sea,

No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?

saying, "Do no harm to the earth, or the sea, or the trees, Until we have sealed the slaves of our God on their foreheads."

To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith;

"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is in itself unclean; but any food is "unclean" for one who considers it "unclean."

"We heard him say, 'I will tear down this temple made by hands, and in three days I will build another temple not made by hands.'"

far above all hierarchies and authorities and powers and dominions and every name that is named, not only in this age but in that which is to come.

Then the women who had accompanied him out of Galilee followed after, and noted the tomb, and how his body was placed.

"And we were witnesses of all that he did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him, hanging him on a tree.

"'He will speak words to you by which you and all your family will be saved.'

slaving with good-will from your heart, as for the Lord and not for men;

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine shall not be stopped within the boundaries of Greece!

"The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my feet; What kind of house will you build for me? saith the Lord. Or what resting-place shall I have?

"Do you not suppose that I am able to appeal to my Father to furnish me at this very moment with twelve legions of angels?

When Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve aside by themselves, and as they went he said to them.

This he told them quite openly. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him.

and they may come to their senses again, and escape the snare of the devil, as they are restored to life by God to do his will.

Listen to me! I, Paul, declare to you that if you are to continue to follow the rite of circumcision, Christ will be no profit to you.

"Why be anxious then about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin.

But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee."

I am continually thanking God for all, always making mention of you in my prayers,

And the Lord said to him. "Arise, go into the street named 'Straight,' and make inquiries in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus, one Saul.

For in my inmost self I delight in the law of God;

So after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood;

So he left the place, and went into the house of a man named Titus Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house adjoined the synagogue.

Then you will say to me. "Why does he still go on finding fault? Who can withstand his will?"

and sent messengers before him. These went and entered into a Samaritan village to make ready for him.

And the apostles continued with great power to give their witness concerning the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

When Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that through it the Son of God may be glorified."

Remember whence you have fallen, and turn again, and do your first works. Otherwise I am coming to you and will remove your candlestick out of its place, unless you repent.

"And the seed sown among thorns is he who hears the word, but the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

for they no longer dared to ask him any questions.

Then the whole crowd shouted out, "Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas."

With many such illustrations Jesus used to tell his message to people as far as they were able to receive it;

"The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat;

"Whoever receives you is receiving me, and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me.

Now it happened that after Jesus had finished all these discourses, he said to his disciples,

and went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, because of the miracles, which he is permitted to perform in the sight of the beast. He tells those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the sword-stroke, yet lived.

"Is not this the reason for your error," Jesus answered them, "that you know not the Scripture nor the power of God?

envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

"Teacher, when will this be?" they asked him, "and what shall be the sign that these things are about to happen?"

But that the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law?

"In solemn truth I tell you that all these things will come upon this generation.

Guard the glorious trust which has been committed to you by the aid of the Holy Spirit who makes his home in us.

"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.

"For whoever holds, to him shall more be given, and he shall have abundance; but whoever does not hold, from him shall be taken away even what he holds.

who for the praise of his glory is the pledge of our common heritage, unto the complete redemption of his purchased property.

"But whoever disowns me before men, I also will disown before my Father who is in heaven.

He would not permit any one to go with him, except Peter and James and John, the brother of James.