Be quick and make terms with your opponent, so long as you and he are on the way to court, in case he hands you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and you are thrown into prison;

but if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every case may be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

Now as Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem he took the twelve aside by themselves and said to them as they were on the road,

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.

Pray that you may not have to fly in winter or on the sabbath,

While they were on their way, some of the sentries went into the city and reported all that had taken place to the high priests,

(For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.)

They were on the way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walking in front of them: the disciples were in dismay and the company who followed were afraid. So once again he took the twelve aside and proceeded to tell them what was going to happen to himself.

Now at that very hour she came up, and she offered praise to God and spoke of him to all who were on the outlook for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,

to proclaim the Lord's year of favour.

That very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem.

who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?

Peter and John were on their way up to the temple for the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon,

If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We do discuss 'wisdom' with those who are mature; only it is not the wisdom of this world or of the dethroned Powers who rule this world,

Still, though planter and waterer are on the same level, each will get his own wage for the special work that he has done.

And yet, when you have mundane issues to settle, you refer them to the judgment of men who from the point of view of the church are of no account!

(So-called gods there may be, in heaven or on earth ??as indeed there are plenty of them, both gods and 'lords' ??6 but for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all comes, and for whom we exist; one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom all exists, and by whom we exist.)

Inanimate instruments, such as the flute or the harp, may give a sound, but if no intervals occur in their music, how can one make out the air that is being played either on flute or on harp?

Ah, if in this life we have nothing but a mere hope in Christ, we are of all men to be pitied most!

for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen eternal.

This will be my third visit to you: every case is to be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

they get the name of 'wisdom' with their self-imposed devotions, with their fasting, with their rigorous discipline of the body, but they are of no value, they simply pamper the flesh!

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

when 'all's well' and 'all is safe' are on the lips of men, then all of a sudden Destruction is upon them, like pangs on a pregnant woman ??escape there is none.

doctors of the Law is what they want to be, but they have no idea either of the meaning of the words they use or of the themes on which they harp.

Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry; but the face of the Lord is set against wrongdoers.

But no one was fit, either in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth, to open the scroll or look into it.

After that I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds from blowing on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

nor did they repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual vice or of their thefts.

But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,

So, enraged at the woman, the dragon went off to wage war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep God's commandments and hold the testimony of Jesus.

He was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them, and given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation;

The woman was clad in purple and scarlet, her ornaments were of gold and precious stones and pearls, in her hand was a golden cup full of all abominations and the impurities of her vice,

they are of one mind, and they confer their power and authority upon the Beast.

They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings ??the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."

And I saw the Beast and the kings of earth and their troops mustered to wage war on him who was seated on the horse and on his troops.