But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife on any ground, except unfaithfulness, makes her commit adultery, and anyone who marries her after she is divorced commits adultery.

while the heirs to the kingdom will be driven into the darkness outside, there to weep and grind their teeth!"

Do not sparrows sell two for a cent? And yet not one of them can fall to the ground against your Father's will!

and some fell on rocky ground where there was not much soil and it sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep,

And what was sown in good ground means the man who listens to the message and understands it, and yields one a hundred, and another sixty, and another thirty-fold."

and throw them into the blazing furnace; there they will wail and grind their teeth.

and throw them into the blazing furnace. There they will wail and grind their teeth.

Then he ordered the people to take their places on the ground,

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife on any ground but her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery."

Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness, there to weep and grind his teeth.'

But the man who had received the one thousand went away and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

and I was frightened, and I went and hid your thousand dollars in the ground. Here is your money!'

And put the good-for-nothing slave out into the darkness outside, to weep and grind his teeth there.'

So after consultation they bought with it the Potter's Field as a burial ground for strangers.

For this reason that piece of ground has ever since been called the Field of Blood.

And Jesus himself met them, and said, "Good morning!" And they went up to him and clasped his feet, and bowed to the ground before him.

So they took the money and did as they were told. And this story has been current among the Jews ever since.

Some of it fell on rocky ground, and where there was not much soil, and it sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,

It is so too with the ones sown on the rocky ground; they gladly accept the message as soon as they hear it,

And the ones sown in good ground are the people who listen to the message and welcome it and yield thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold.

"The reign of God," he said, "is like a man scattering seed on the ground,

The ground of itself is productive, putting forth first a blade, then a head, then fully developed wheat in the head.

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown in the ground, though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the world,

Then he ordered the people to take their places on the ground. And he took the seven loaves and gave thanks and broke them in pieces and gave them to his disciples to pass, and they passed them to the people.

And they brought the boy to him. As soon as the spirit saw him, it convulsed the boy, and he fell down on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink, on the ground that you belong to Christ, I tell you, will certainly not fail to be repaid.

And he went on a little way and threw himself on the ground and prayed that if it were possible he might be spared the hour of trial,

But the man who listens to it, and does not act upon it, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation. The torrent burst upon it, and it collapsed at once, and the wreck of that house was complete."

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

It is fit neither for the ground nor the manure heap; people throw it away. Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!"

and they will throw you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not know when God visited you!"

The women were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look among the dead for him who is alive?

And he made a lash out of rope, and drove them all, sheep and cattle, out of the Temple, and scattered the money-changers' coins on the ground, and overturned their tables.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and gave thanks, and distributed them among the people who were resting on the ground, and in the same way as much of the fish as they wanted.

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

I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains just one grain. But if it dies, it yields a great harvest.

and if I am lifted up from the ground, I will draw all men to myself."

Anything you ask for as followers of mine I will grant, so that the Father may be honored through the Son.

I will grant anything you ask me for as my followers.

It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

When Jesus said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground.

And he stooped down and saw the bandages lying on the ground, but he did not go in.

Then Simon Peter came up behind him, and he went inside the tomb, and saw the bandages lying on the ground,

and the handkerchief that had been over Jesus' face not on the ground with the bandages, but folded up by itself.

Then the Lord said to him, 'Take off your shoes, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

When they heard that, they were enraged and ground their teeth at him.

and he fell to the ground. Then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?"

When he got up from the ground and opened his eyes he could see nothing. They had to take him by the hand and lead him into Damascus,

and saw the sky opened and a thing like a great sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by the four corners,

and though they could find no ground for putting him to death, they demanded of Pilate that he be executed.

and a young man named Eutychus, who was sitting at the window, became very drowsy as Paul's address grew longer and longer, and finally went fast asleep and fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

and I fell upon the ground and heard a voice say to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?'

"The Jews," he answered, "have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, on the ground that you mean to have a fuller inquiry made into his case.

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me? You cannot kick against the goad!'

there is but one God, and he will make the circumcised upright on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised upright because of theirs."

And I shall go on doing as I do, so as to cut the ground from under those who want to make out that in their boasted apostleship they work on the same terms that I do.

But the Scripture describes all mankind as the prisoners of sin, so that the promised blessing might on the ground of faith in Jesus Christ be given to those who have faith.

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of himself,

So you must take God's armor, so that when the evil day comes you will be able to make a stand, and when it is all over to hold your ground.

Stand your ground, then, with the belt of truth around your waist, and put on uprightness as your coat of mail,

The Lord grant that he may be shown mercy by the Lord on that Day! And you know well enough how he helped me at Ephesus.

Ground that drinks in frequent showers and produces vegetation that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated receives God's blessing.

They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawed in two, they were killed with the sword. Clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, they were driven from place to place, destitute, persecuted, misused??38 men of whom the world was not worthy wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground.

So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains.