“You are blessed when they insult and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of Me.

“You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.

Neither should you swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this?—even the winds and the sea obey Him!”

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a large net thrown into the sea. It collected every kind of fish,

[However, this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting.]”

For at that time there will be great tribulation, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again!

Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, Your will be done.”

Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels?

“He saved others, but He cannot save Himself! He is the King of Israel! Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him.

Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

And if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot stand but is finished!

And He told them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer [and fasting].”

For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of the world, which God created, until now and never will be again!

In the same way, the chief priests with the scribes were mocking Him to one another and saying, “He saved others; He cannot save Himself!

But she was deeply troubled by this statement, wondering what kind of greeting this could be.

When the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching Him—she’s a sinner!”

“But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. These things you should have done without neglecting the others.

And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

Otherwise, after he has laid the foundation and cannot finish it, all the onlookers will begin to make fun of him,

In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not say good-bye to all his possessions cannot be My disciple.

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’

For they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

Then He said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.

If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

He said this to signify what kind of death He was about to die.

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

“Lord,” Simon Peter said to Him, “where are You going?”

Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”

He said this to signify by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, He told him, “Follow Me!”

saying, “What should we do with these men? For an obvious sign, evident to all who live in Jerusalem, has been done through them, and we cannot deny it!

Some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom prescribed by Moses, you cannot be saved!”

But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

He wrote a letter of this kind:

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.

And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

as it is written:

God gave them a spirit of insensitivity,
eyes that cannot see
and ears that cannot hear,
to this day.

Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
and their backs be bent continually.

The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone.

It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles—a man is living with his father’s wife.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

So the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”

Brothers, I tell you this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption.

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

We have this kind of confidence toward God through Christ.

In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,

For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we were among you for your benefit,

for they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

Likewise, good works are obvious, and those that are not obvious cannot remain hidden.

if we are faithless, He remains faithful,
for He cannot deny Himself.

in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

to slander no one, to avoid fighting, and to be kind, always showing gentleness to all people.

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us hold on to grace. By it, we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

See, we count as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother he has seen cannot love the God he has not seen.

I know your works, your labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you have found them to be liars.

Then I was given a measuring reed like a rod, with these words: “Go and measure God’s sanctuary and the altar, and count those who worship there.

The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone:

the first foundation jasper,
the second sapphire,
the third chalcedony,
the fourth emerald,