and yet they officiate in a sanctuary that is a mere copy and shadow of the heavenly one, as Moses, when he was about to make the tent of worship, was warned, for, said He, "See to it that you make it all just like the pattern shown you on the mountain."

So, as through one offense there resulted condemnation for all men, just so through one act of uprightness there resulted right standing involving life for all men.

For just as all men die by virtue of their descent from Adam, so all such as are in union with Christ will be made to live again.

For "All human life is just like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass dries up; the flowers drop off.

just as you have given Him authority over all mankind to give eternal life to all whom you have given Him.

But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him; they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, just waiting for your promise."

While I was performing these duties they found me just as I had completed the rites of my purification in the temple; however, there was no crowd with me and no disturbance at all.

So keep up your courage, men, for I have confidence in my God that it will all come out just as I was told.

I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.

and so in that way all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says: "From Zion the Deliverer will come; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob;

For just as we have many parts united in our physical bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ.

As for our brother Apollos, I have earnestly urged him to go to see you, but he is not at all inclined to come just now; yet he is coming when he has a good opportunity.

Indeed, if I have been doing some boasting of you to him, I have never been ashamed of it; but just as all I said to him was true, so now my boasting before Titus has been shown to be true.

For the cravings of the lower nature are just the opposite to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are just the opposite of those of the lower nature; these two are opposed to each other, so that you cannot do anything you please.

which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,

And just as He was saying these things to them, an official came up and fell on his knees before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand upon her and she will come to life."

to see how faithful He was to God who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all the house of God.

For just as the man who builds a house has greater glory than the house, by just so much is Jesus judged to be worthy of greater glory than Moses.

who does not need, as did the Levitical priests, to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; this latter is just what He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

and they continued to beg Him to let them touch just the tassel on His coat, and all who barely touched it were completely cured.

and all the nations will be gathered before him, and He will separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats,

Then He began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around Him so great that He got into a boat and was sitting in it, just off the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the sea.

Then the shepherds went back continuing to give glory and praise to God for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told them.

Just at that time she came up and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were expecting the deliverance of Jerusalem.

So if you will worship before me just once, it shall all be yours."

Just think of how the lilies grow. They do not toil nor spin. But, I tell you, not even Solomon, in all his splendor, was ever dressed like one of them.

But they all in the same attitude began to excuse themselves. The first one said, 'I have just bought a piece of land and I must go and look it over. Please excuse me.'

Just as He was approaching the city, going down the Mount of Olives, the whole throng of the disciples began to praise God exultantly and loudly for all the wonder-works that they had seen,

Jesus answered them, "I have done just one deed, and yet you are all dumbfounded!

"In just a little while you will not see me any longer; and yet, in just a little while after you will see me again."

So some of His disciples said to one another, "What does He mean by telling us, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him a question, and so He said to them, "Are you inquiring of one another about this saying of mine, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again'?

for them all to be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, for them to be in union with us, so that the world may be convinced that you have sent me.

He answered them, "Just after you enter the city, a man with a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters

So they went off and found it just as He had said, and they prepared the Passover supper.

It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was just beginning.

Then some of our company went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Him."

The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

As soon as the manager tasted the water just turned into wine, without knowing where it came from, although the servants who had drawn the water did know, he called the bridegroom

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent on the pole, the Son of Man must be lifted up,

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about noon.

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

Just then His disciples came up, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman, yet not one of them asked Him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

It was this Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among you, just as He did me.'

Now this was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep He was led away to be slaughtered, and just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, so He does not open His mouth.

Just at that time it happened that she had been taken ill and had died. They washed her body and laid her out in a room upstairs.

But Peter lifted him to his feet, saying, "Get up, I too am just a man myself."

"No one can refuse the use of water, can he, for these to be baptized, since they have received the Holy Spirit just as we did ourselves?"

Just at that moment three men, who had been sent from Caesarea for me, stopped at the house where we were staying.

Now just as Herod was going to bring him out, that is, the very night before, Peter was fastened with two chains and was sleeping between two soldiers, and the guards were at the door guarding the prison.

that God has fulfilled it to us their children, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the Second Psalm, 'You are my Son, today I have become your Father.'

In fact, we believe that it is through the favor of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are."

For some of the things you bring sound startling to us; so we want to know just what they mean."

In a way of just such power as this the Lord's message kept on spreading and prevailing.

Now just about that time a great commotion arose about The Way.

where he stayed three months. Just as he was about to sail for Syria, he changed his mind and returned by way of Macedonia, because a plot against him had been laid by the Jews.

Now you must do just what we tell you. We have here four men who are under a vow.

But on my way, just before I reached Damascus, suddenly about noon a blaze of light from heaven flashed around me,

But that same night the Lord stood by Paul's side and said, "Courage! For just as you have testified for me in Jerusalem, you must testify for me in Rome, too."

and they cannot prove the charges they have just made against me.

For just last night an angel of God, to whom I belong and whom I serve, stood by my side

For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."

So if the uncircumcised heathen man observes the just demands of the law, will he not be counted as though he were a Jew?

Why should we not say, as people abusively say of us, and charge us with actually saying, "Let us do evil that good may come from it"? Their condemnation is just.

Their throats are just like open graves, with their tongues they have spoken treachery; the poison of asps is under their lips.

Abraham, building on hope in spite of hopeless circumstances, had faith, and so he actually became the father of many nations, just as it had been told him, "So numberless shall your descendants be."

For just as by that man's disobedience the whole race of men were constituted sinners, so by this One's obedience the whole race of men may be brought into right standing with God.

so that just as sin had reigned by death, so His favor too might reign in right standing with God which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

Just as He says in Hosea: "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, and her who was not beloved, my beloved,

you must not be boasting against the natural branches. And if you do, just consider, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have had mercy shown you because of their disobedience,

Stop undoing the work of God just for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything when it makes another stumble.

Therefore, practice receiving one another into full Christian fellowship, just as Christ has so received you to Himself.

But just now I am on my way to Jerusalem to help God's people.

Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

For what man can understand his own inner thoughts except by his own spirit within him? Just so no one but the Spirit of God can understand the thoughts of God.

If the structure which one builds is burned up, he will get no pay; and yet he himself will be saved, but just as one who goes through a fire.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine and trustworthy in the Lord's work; he will call to your minds my methods in the work of Christ Jesus, just as I teach them everywhere in every church.

And these are just the characters some of you used to be. But now you have washed yourselves clean, you have been consecrated, you are now in right standing with God, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

Just so the Lord has issued orders that those who preach the good news shall get their living out of it.

But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting.

just as I myself am in the habit of pleasing everybody in everything, not aiming at my own welfare but at that of as many people as possible, in order that they may be saved.

You must follow my example, just as I myself am following Christ's.

For just as woman originated from man, so man is born of woman, and both, with everything else, originated from God.

But as it now is, God has placed the parts, every one of them, in the body just as He wanted them to be.

So it is with you; unless in your ecstatic speaking you speak a message that is clearly intelligible, how can the message spoken by you be understood? You might just as well be talking to the air!

Women must keep quiet in the churches, for no permission is given them to speak. On the contrary, they must take a subordinate place, just as the law says.

but God gives it just the body He sees fit, even each kind of seed its own body.

It is just like this with the resurrection of the dead.

Now those who are made of the dust are just like him who was first made of dust, and those who are heavenly are like Him who is from heaven,

If Timothy gets there, see that he is at ease among you, for he is devotedly doing the work of the Lord, just as I am.

For just as my sufferings for Christ are running over the cup, so through Christ my comfort is running over too.

My hope for you is well founded; because I know that just as you, brothers, are sharers of my sufferings, so you will be sharers of my comfort too.

For what I am writing you is nothing more than what you can read and understand, and I hope that you will understand it perfectly, just as some of you have come to understand me partially;