I have kept nothing back from you, men of Corinth; I have opened my heart to you.

To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you must open your hearts too.

But as it is brothers, if I come back to you and speak ecstatically, what good will I do you, unless I have some revelation or special knowledge or message or teaching to give you?

But someone will say, "How can the dead rise? What kind of a body will they have when they come back?"

So no one is to slight him. But see him off cordially when he comes back to me, for I am expecting him with the other brothers.

I was going to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia and have you see me off for Judea.

For this man Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was on his way back from defeating the kings, and gave him his blessing,

For we know who it is that has said, "Vengeance belongs to me! I will pay back!" and in another place, "The Lord will be the judge of his people!"

And he whom I accept as righteous will find life through his faith. But if a man draws back, my heart can take no pleasure in him."

But we will not draw back and perish, but we will have faith and save our souls.

And if it had been the country from which they had come to which their thoughts turned back, they would have found an opportunity to return to it.

For he believed that God was able to raise men even from the dead, and from the dead he did indeed, to speak figuratively, receive him back.

I ask this of you more especially that I may be brought back to you the sooner.

and now that I send him back to you, it is like sending my very heart.

For perhaps this is why you and he were parted for a while, that you might have him back forever,

But of the time when he is to bring his firstborn Son back to the world he says, "And let all God's angels bow before him."

and yet have fallen back, for they crucify the Son of God on their own account, and hold him up to contempt.

What has happened to them shows the truth of the proverb, "A dog returns to what he has vomited up, and a sow that has washed goes back to wallow in the mire."

May God, the giver of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus who through the blood by which he ratified the everlasting agreement has become the great shepherd of the sheep,

My brothers, if any one of you is led astray from the truth, and someone brings him back,

you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his misguided way will save the man's soul from death, and cover up a host of sins.

Pay her back in her own coin, and give her double for what she has done. In the cup she mixed for others, mix her a double draught.

After that I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind should blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.