to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear,

But he who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."

And he told them a parable, saying: "The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully.

So he said to the keeper of his vineyard, 'Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why should it use up the ground?'

And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation."

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder."

And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

And as they were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?