So the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to become loaves."

You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.

It is less than any seed on earth, but when it grows up it is larger than any plant, it becomes a tree, so large that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

So he said to them, "Well then, every scribe who has become a disciple of the Realm of heaven is like a householder who produces what is new and what is old from his stores."

and said, "I tell you truly, unless you turn and become like children, you will never get into the Realm of heaven at all.

Now when evening came, a rich man from Arimathaea, called Joseph, who had become a disciple of Jesus,

Now this came to the hearing of king Herod, for the name of Jesus had become well known; people said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, that is why miraculous powers are working through him;"

All who heard of it bore it in mind; they said, "Whatever will this child become?" For the hand of the Lord was indeed with him.

and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

The devil said to him, "If you are God's son, tell this stone to become a loaf."

Salt is excellent indeed: but if salt becomes insipid, what will restore its flavour?

and when the manager of the feast tasted the water which had become wine, not knowing where it had come from (though the servants who had drawn it knew), he called the bridegroom

He is the stone despised by you builders, which has become head of the corner.

Now when day broke there was a great commotion among the soldiers over what could have become of Peter.

has been fulfilled by God for us their children, when he raised Jesus. As it is written in the second psalm, thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

By this time it was far on in the season and sailing had become dangerous (for the autumn Fast was past), so Paul warned them thus:

They claimed to be wise, but they have become fools;

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith.

Accordingly, she will be termed an adulteress if she becomes another man's while her husband is alive; but if her husband dies, she is freed from the law of 'the husband,' so that she is no adulteress if she becomes another man's.

Then did what was meant for my good prove fatal to me? Never! It was sin; sin resulted in death for me by making use of this good thing. This was how sin was to be revealed in its true nature; it was to use the command to become sinful in the extreme.

Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise.

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body (for the pair, it is said, shall become one flesh),

To Jews I have become like a Jew, to win over Jews; to those under the Law I have become as one of themselves ??though I am not under the Law myself ??to win over those under the Law;

to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves ??though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law ??to win over those outside the Law;

to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means.

If they all made up one member, what would become of the body?

For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" ??15 We may be Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners,'

Now, what has become of all that? (I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given me them.)

still, whatever the light exposes becomes illuminated ??for anything that is illuminated turns into light.

Besides, they become idle unconsciously by gadding about from one house to another ??and not merely idle but gossips and busybodies, repeating things they have no right to mention.

that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

For to what angel did God ever say, 'Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father'? Or again, 'I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me'?

Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

This becomes all the more plain when another priest emerges resembling Melchizedek,

one who has become a priest by the power of an indissoluble Life and not by the law of an external command;

If the just man is scarcely saved, what will become of the impious and sinful?