"Blessed are you, Simon, Son of Jonah," Jesus replied. "For no human being has revealed this to you, but my Father who is in Heaven.

It is about John's baptism. What was its origin? divine or human?" But they began arguing among themselves: "If we say 'divine,' he will say to us 'Why then did not you believe him?'

But if we say 'human,' we are afraid of the people, for every one regards John as a Prophet."

They then sang a hymn, and went out to the Mount of Olives.

Watch and pray, that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

It is about John's baptism. Was it of divine or human origin? Answer me that."

Yet can we say 'human'?"--They were afraid of the people, for everyone regarded John as undoubtedly a Prophet.

They then sang a hymn, and went out up the Mount of Olives,

Watch and pray," he said to them all, "that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

It is about John's baptism--was it of divine or of human origin?"

But, if we say 'human,' the people will all stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a Prophet."

For not to natural conception, nor to human instincts, nor to will of man did they owe the new Life, but to God.

All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

And, in this present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these men, but to let them alone, for, if their designs and their work are merely of human origin, they will come to an end;

Nor yet do human hands minister to his wants, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives, to all, life, and breath, and all things.

Therefore, as the offspring of God, we must not think that the Deity has any resemblance to anything made of gold, or silver, or stone--a work of human art and imagination.

Concerning his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord; who, as to his human nature, was descended from David,

Will fall upon every human being who persists in wrong-doing- -upon the Jew first, but also upon the Greek.

For 'no human being will be pronounced righteous before God' as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.

They are descended from the Patriarchs; and, as far as his human nature was concerned, from them came the Christ-he who is supreme over all things, God for ever blessed. Amen.

So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God's mercy.

For, just as in the human body there is a union of many parts, and each part has its own function,

So that in his presence no human being should boast.

And we speak of these gifts, not in language taught by human philosophy, but in language taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things in spiritual words.

But it weighs very little with me that I am judged by you or by any human tribunal. No, I do not even judge myself;

Am I, in all this, speaking only from the human standpoint? Does not the Law also say the same?

For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ;

The human body, I repeat, consists not of one part, but of many.

What do I suggest, then, Brothers? Whenever you meet for worship, each of you comes, either with a hymn, or a lesson, or a revelation, or the gift of 'tongues,' or the interpretation of them; let everything be directed to the building up of faith.

If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then-'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die'!

Sown weak, it rises strong; sown a human body, it rises a spiritual body.

As surely as there is a human body, there is also a spiritual body.

That is what is meant by the words-'Adam, the first man, became a human being'; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit.

That which comes first is not the spiritual, but the human; afterwards comes the spiritual;

All can see that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, a letter written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God, not on 'tablets of stone,' but on 'tablets of human hearts.'

Was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable things of which no human being may tell.

I would remind you, Brothers, that the Good News which I told is no mere human invention.

Saw fit to reveal his Son in me, so that I might tell the Good News of him among the Gentiles, then at once, instead of consulting any human being,

Of those who are thought somewhat highly of--what they once were makes no difference to me; God does not recognize human distinctions--those, I say, who are thought highly of added nothing to my Message.

And in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them--the Law with its injunctions and ordinances--in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one New Man and thus make peace.

Then we shall no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching, through the trickery and the craftiness of men, towards the snares of error;

Then the Peace of God, which is beyond all human understanding, will stand guard over your hearts and thoughts, through your union with Christ Jesus.

I know how to face humble circumstances, and I know how to face prosperity. Into all and every human experience I have been initiated--into plenty and hunger, into prosperity and want.

Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his 'philosophy'--a hollow sham!--following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.

By your union with him you received a circumcision that was not performed by human hands, when you threw off the tyranny of the earthly body, and received the circumcision of the Christ.

Do not let any one defraud you of the reality by affecting delight in so-called 'humility' and angel-worship. Such a man busies himself with his visions, and without reason is rendered conceited by his merely human intellect.

For all the things referred to in them cease to exist when used. You are following mere human directions and instructions.

Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of 'the Children,' Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death--that is, the Devil--

But, when Christ came, he appeared as High Priest of that Better System which was established; and he entered through that nobler and more perfect 'Tabernacle,' not made by human hands--that is to say, not a part of this present creation.

For it was not into a Sanctuary made by human hands, which merely foreshadowed the true one, that Christ entered, but into Heaven itself, that he might now appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

by the way which he inaugurated for us--a new and living way, a way through the Sanctuary Curtain (that is, his human nature);

No human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless plague! It is charged with deadly poison!

Submit to all human institutions for the Lord's sake, alike to the emperor as the supreme authority,

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

For it was through this that he gave us what we prize as the greatest of his promises, that through them you might participate in the divine nature, now that you have fled from the corruption in the world, resulting from human passions.

This is the way by which to know the inspiration of God--All inspiration that acknowledges Jesus Christ as come in our human nature is from God;

No human eyes have ever seen God, yet, if we love one another, God remains in union with us, and his love attains its perfection in us.

I say this because many impostors have left us to go into the world--men who do not acknowledge Jesus as Christ come in our human nature. It is that which marks a man as an impostor and an anti-Christ.

Yet in the very same way these men, too, cherishing vain dreams, pollute our human nature, reject control, and malign the Mighty.

In appearance the locusts were like horses equipped for battle. On their heads there were what appeared to be crowns that shone like gold, their faces resembled human faces,