The earth and everything in it exists for the LORD the world and those who live in it.

You are to burn a third of it in the middle of the city when you've finished your siege. Next, you are to take another third of it and beat it with your sword. Last, you are to scatter the remaining third to the wind, after which I'll unsheathe my sword and pursue them.

I ate no fancy foods neither meat nor wine entered my mouth. Furthermore, I didn't use any ointment until the end of the entire three weeks.

While Jesus was telling them these things, an official came up and fell down before him. "My daughter has just died," he said. "But come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it the new from the old and a worse tear is made.

He saw that his disciples were straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he came to them, walking on the sea. He intended to go up right beside them,

"When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets did you fill with the leftover pieces?" They told him, "Seven."

We have all received one gracious gift after another from his abundance,

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!

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.

Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.

And I know that when I come to you I will come with the full blessing of the Messiah.

for "the earth and everything in it belong to the Lord."

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,

to usher in the fullness of the times and to bring together in the Messiah all things in heaven and on earth.

which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills everything in every way.

I pray that he would give you, according to his glorious riches, strength in your inner being and power through his Spirit,

until all of us are united in the faith and in the full knowledge of God's Son, and until we attain mature adulthood and the full standard of development in the Messiah.

For God was pleased to have all of his divine essence inhabit him.

because all the essence of deity inhabits him in bodily form.

because all the essence of deity inhabits him in bodily form. And you have been filled by him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.