And she will give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

"Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel," which means, "God with us."

But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day." And they were greatly distressed.

And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.'

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.'

and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; but they were not willing to come.

And do not call anyone on earth your 'Father,' for you have one Father, he who is in heaven.

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

and they plotted to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

they offered him wine to drink, mingled with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.

And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Then he said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they kept silent.

And Herodias had a grudge against him, and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

For he was teaching his disciples and said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and when he is killed, after three days he will rise."

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.

and they will mock him, and spit on him, and scourge him, and kill him. And after three days he will rise."

So Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." And they called the blind man, saying to him, "Take heart; rise, he is calling you."

But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth, and kill him.

And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?"

But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

for he has regarded the lowly state of his servant; for behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?

Therefore the wisdom of God also said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

At that very time some Pharisees came, and said to him, "Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you."

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

And bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;

And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in this flame.'

So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.

They will scourge him and kill him, and on the third day he will rise again."

But when the tenants saw him, they reasoned among themselves and said, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to kill him, for they feared the people.

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

After this Jesus went about in Galilee; he would not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"

The people answered, "You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill you?"

Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?

Then the Jews said, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I go you cannot come'?"

I know that you are Abraham's descendants, yet you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

As he said this, he spat on the ground and made clay of the saliva, and anointed the man's eyes with the clay.

He answered and said, "A man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and I received sight."

Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, for all whom the Lord our God will call to himself."

When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to kill them.

Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity."

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."

When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him,

but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him;

And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews; but they were seeking to kill him.

A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat!"

And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call common."

And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

Then I heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat!'

But the voice answered a second time from heaven, 'What God has cleansed you must not call common.'

When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack upon Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;

And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio paid no attention to this.

While they were trying to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

You therefore, along with the council, give notice now to the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near."

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do worship the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,

as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape.

But if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God

though the twins were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might stand, not because of works but because of his call,

Does not the potter have right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

As indeed he says in Hosea: "I will call them who were not my people 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'my beloved.'"

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and bestows his riches on all who call upon him.

How then can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without a preacher?

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

For I have been informed by Chloe's people, that there are quarrels among you, my brethren.

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to fleshly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

But I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers

Now flee from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

For both he who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Behold, we call those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;