and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye?

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

All the crowds were amazed, and were saying, “This man cannot be the Son of David, can he?”

Or how can anyone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

But He said to them, “Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given.

When the disciples heard this, they were very astonished and said, “Then who can be saved?”

And a leper *came to Jesus, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

“Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?”

And Jesus said to them, “While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that the birds of the air can nest under its shade.”

there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

and His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!”

And Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.”

They were even more astonished and said to Him, “Then who can be saved?”

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me.

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”

While He was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

And He also spoke a parable to them: “A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

“I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life’s span?

So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.

And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

They who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip *said to him, “Come and see.”

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;

This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?”

John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum.

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?”

And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.”

We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.

Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of one demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?”

The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

Peter *said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You.”

Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together.

“Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

since you can take note of the fact that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

Nor can they prove to you the charges of which they now accuse me.

If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;

For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.

By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

For what thanks can we render to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice before our God on your account,

who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness;

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.

Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison.

Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;