For this promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are distant, whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

I would even punish them frequently in every synagogue and try to make them blaspheme. Raging furiously against them, I would hunt them down even in distant cities.

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all on wild living.

So he said, "A prince went to a distant country to be appointed king and then to return.

Are they the Messiah's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.

As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake, but as far as election is concerned, they are loved for the sake of their ancestors.

So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."

You even took along the tent of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, and the images you made in order to worship them. So I will take you into exile as far as Babylon.'

Now the people who were scattered by the persecution that started because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.

They went through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish occult practitioner and false prophet named Bar-jesus.

They went as far as Mysia and tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them,

so that they might look for God, somehow reach for him, and find him. Of course, he is never far from any one of us.

"Then he told me, "Go, because I'll send you far away to the gentiles.'"

The brothers there heard about us and came as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and felt encouraged.

Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

For when he died, he died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that he is alive, he lives for God.

In the same way, you too must continuously consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but living for God through the Messiah Jesus.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were "free" as far as righteousness was concerned.

In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.

For the Messiah is the culmination of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people.

by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of God's Spirit, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of the Messiah from Jerusalem as far as Illyricum.

The queen of the south will stand up and condemn the people living today, because she came from so far away to hear the wisdom of Solomon. But look! Something greater than Solomon is here!"

This light, temporary nature of our suffering is producing for us an everlasting weight of glory, far beyond any comparison,

"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Then we can preach the gospel in the regions far beyond you without boasting about things already accomplished by someone else.

I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries, because I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

He is far above every ruler, authority, power, dominion, and every name that can be named, not only in the present age, but also in the one to come.

But now, in union with the Messiah Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.

He came and proclaimed peace for you who were far away and for you who were near.

Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with the Messiah, for that is far better.

Having been circumcised on the eighth day, I am of the nation of Israel, from the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. As far as the Law is concerned, I was a Pharisee.

As for my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church. As far as righteousness in the Law is concerned, I was blameless.

What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah

However, we should live up to what we have achieved so far.

Then God's peace, which goes far beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your hearts and minds in union with the Messiah Jesus.

because just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Peter, however, followed him at a distance as far as the high priest's courtyard. He went inside and sat down with the servants to see how this would end.

But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men, their stupidity will be plain to everyone.

He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Therefore, remember how far you have fallen. Repent and go back to what you were doing at first. If you don't, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place unless you repent.

When Jesus saw how wisely the man answered, he told him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that, no one dared to ask him another question.

Frightened by the torture that she experiences, they will stand far away and cry out, "How terrible, how terrible it is for that great city, the powerful city Babylon, because your judgment arrived in a single hour!"

Every ship's captain, everyone who traveled by ship, sailors, and everyone who made a living from the sea stood far away. When they saw the smoke rising from the fire that consumed her, they began to cry out, "What city was like that great city?"

Peter followed Jesus at a distance as far as the high priest's courtyard. He was sitting with the servants and warming himself at the fire.