If you lend to those from whom you expect to get something back, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back what they lend.

"So the servant went back and reported all this to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and told his servant, "Go quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

And since I'm going away to prepare a place for you, I'll come back again and welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am.

I'm not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.

You have heard me tell you, "I'm going away, but I'm coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I'm going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

He cuts off every branch that does not produce fruit in me, and he cuts back every branch that does produce fruit, so that it might produce more fruit.

I left the Father and came into the world. Now I'm leaving the world and going back to the Father."

Jesus told Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath. Shouldn't I drink the cup that the Father has given me?"

So Pilate went back into the governor's headquarters, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

So the disciples went back to their homes.

That disciple whom Jesus kept loving told Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his clothes back on, because he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.

Jesus told him, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you? You must keep following me!"

So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to Peter that he wasn't going to die, but, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?"

They asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven."

So they called Peter and John back in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

With his wife's full knowledge, he kept back some of the money for himself and brought the remainder and laid it at the apostles' feet.

Peter asked, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money you got for the land?

When the Temple police got there, they did not find them in the prison. They came back and reported,

So the commander of the Temple guards went with his men to bring them back without force, because they were afraid of being stoned to death by the people.

When they brought them back, they made them stand before the Council, and the high priest began to question them.

They were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought at a high price from Hamor's descendants in Shechem.

After they had given their testimony and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, continuing to proclaim the good news in many Samaritan villages.

He extended his hand and helped her get up. Then he called the saints, including the widows, and gave her back to them alive.

This happened three times. Then the sheet was quickly taken back into heaven.

This happened three times. Then everything was pulled back up to heaven.

On recognizing Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed that she didn't open the gate but ran back inside and announced that Peter was standing at the gate.

Then Paul and his men set sail from Paphos and arrived in Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them and went back to Jerusalem.

But the disciples formed a circle around him, and he got up and went back to town. The next day, he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

As they were proclaiming the good news in that city, they discipled a large number of people. Then they went back to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been entrusted to the grace of God for the work they had completed.

""After this, I will come back and set up David's fallen tent again. I will restore its ruined places and set it up again

After staying there for some time, they were sent back with a greeting from the brothers to those who had sent them.

A few days later, Paul told Barnabas, "Let's go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they're doing."

As he told them goodbye, he said, "I will come back to you again if it is God's will." Then he set sail from Ephesus.

and stayed there for three months. When he was about to sail for Syria, a plot was initiated against him by the Jews, so he decided to go back through Macedonia.

Then he went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. He talked with them for a long time, until dawn, and then left.

and said goodbye to each other. Then we reboarded the ship, and they went back home.

as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. I also received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was going there to tie up those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." Immediately those who were about to examine him stepped back, and the tribune was afraid when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had tied him up.

After many years, I have come back to my people to bring gifts for the poor and to offer sacrifices.

Having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they left for their own country by a different road.

Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he went back to Galilee.

I tell you with certainty, you will not get out of there until you pay back the last dollar!"

On the contrary, who are you mere man that you are to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this?"

or "Who will go down into the depths?' (that is, to bring the Messiah back from the dead)."

After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!

Or who has given him something only to have him pay it back?"

Do not pay anyone back evil for evil, but focus your thoughts on what is right in the sight of all people.

Do not take revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me. I will pay them back, declares the Lord."

Then it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.' When it arrives, it finds it empty, swept clean, and put in order.

Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you I say this to your shame don't fully know God.

But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come back?"

I planned to leave you in order to go to Macedonia, and then come back to you from Macedonia, and let you send me on to Judea.

"If your brother sins against you, go and confront him while the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

I have already warned those who sinned previously and all the rest. Although I am absent now, I am warning them as I did on my second visit: If I come back, I will not spare you,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me. Instead, I went away to Arabia and then came back to Damascus.

But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?

Jesus told him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell what you own and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

They told him, "Caesar's." So he told them, "Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."