And some Pharisees came up to him to test him, and they said, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"

And he gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a portent that will be much debated??35 you yourself will be pierced to the heart??nd so the thoughts of many minds will be revealed."

But the saying of their Law, 'They hated me without cause,' must be fulfilled.

But Barnabas got hold of him and introduced him to the apostles, and he told them how on his journey he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how boldly he had spoken for the cause of Jesus at Damascus.

and spoke boldly for the Lord's cause, talking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews. But they tried to kill him.

I once thought it my duty vigorously to oppose the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.

The thing you have a right to do must not become a cause of reproach.

Remember me to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in the cause of Christ Jesus,

Remember me to Urbanus, our fellow-worker in Christ's cause, and to my dear Stachys.

Remember me to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, those hard workers in the Lord's cause. Remember me to my dear Persis, who has worked so hard for the Lord,

I am not trying to recommend myself to you again. I am giving you cause to be proud of me, to use in answering men who pride themselves on external advantages and not on sincerity of heart.

So you will find in me fresh cause for Christian exultation, through having me with you again.

For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have showed for his cause, in giving help to your fellow-Christians as you still do.

Many people will follow their immoral ways, and they will cause the true way to be maligned.

while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God, which will cause the heavens to burn up and dissolve and the heavenly bodies to blaze and melt.

For they have started out for the sake of the cause, and they are accepting nothing from the heathen.