In reply Jesus said: "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me!"

"O unbelieving generation!" replied Jesus; "how long must I be with you? How long must I be patient with you? Bring him to me."

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.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father,

and how in my zeal for Judaism I outstripped many of my own age and nation, in my special zeal for the traditions of my forefathers.

It is not to angels that God subjected the age to be, of which we are speaking.

and become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Future Age,

And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

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;

Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought.

None of the rulers of the present age understands it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place.

Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them.