Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

I tell you this now, before it occurs, so that, when it does occur, you may believe.

Even the creation waits with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed.

But remember, it is not everyone who has this 'knowledge.' Some who have hitherto been accustomed to idols eat the food as food which has been really offered to an idol, and so their weaker conscience is contaminated.

By sinning against the brotherhood in this way and wounding their weaker consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient.

Inanimate instruments, such as the flute or the harp, may give a sound, but if no intervals occur in their music, how can one make out the air that is being played either on flute or on harp?

Hence also I am eager to satisfy him, whether in the body or away from it;

See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.

Only, we were to 'remember the poor.' I was quite eager to do that myself.

The outcome of all this, I know, will be my release, as you continue to pray for me, and as I am provided with the Spirit of Jesus Christ ??20 my eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage. Whether that means life or death, no matter!

So I am specially eager to send him, that you may be glad when you see him again, and thus my own anxiety may be lightened.

Brothers, when we were bereft of you for a little while (out of sight, not out of mind), we were the more eager to see you. We had a keen longing for you.

Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction.

May the Lord show favour to the household of Onesiphorus, for many a time he braced me up; he was not ashamed of my imprisonment ??17 no, he made eager search for me when he reached Rome, and he found me

Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.