" 'And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, You are by no means least important among the leading places of Judah, For from you will come a leader Who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.' "

Anyone, therefore, who weakens one of the slightest of these commands, and teaches others to do so, will be ranked lowest in the Kingdom of Heaven; but anyone who observes them and teaches others to do so will be ranked high in the Kingdom of Heaven.

I tell you, you will never get out again until you have paid the last penny!

And they came and woke him up, saying, "Save us, sir! We are lost!"

but proceed instead to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to them, "Any kingdom that is disunited is on the way to destruction, and any city or household that is disunited cannot last.

If Satan is driving Satan out, he is disunited, and so how can his kingdom last?

But he answered, "I am sent only to the lost sheep of Israel's house."

In just that way, it is the will of my Father in heaven that not a single one of these children be lost.

But many who are first now will be last then, and many who are now last will be first.

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'

and said, 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have put them on the same footing with us who have done the heavy work of the day and have stood the midday heat.'

Take what belongs to you and go. I wish to give the last man hired as much as I give you.

So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last."

And no one pours new wine into old wine-skins; or if he does, the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins too. New wine has to be put into fresh skins."

If a kingdom is disunited, that kingdom cannot last.

And if a household is disunited, that household cannot last.

And if Satan has rebelled against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is coming to his end.

so that " 'They may look and look and yet not see, And listen and listen and yet not understand, Lest possibly they should turn and be forgiven.' ",

but it takes no real root in them and they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message they give it up at once.

And he sat down and called the Twelve in, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

But many who are first now will be last then, and the last will be first."

He still had one left to send, a dearly loved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'

And they went to him and woke him up, and said to him, "Master! Master! We are lost!" Then he awoke and reproved the wind and the rough water, and they ceased, and there was a calm.

And if Satan is disunited, how can his kingdom last? Because you say that I drive out demons with Beelzebub's aid.

So if you cannot do the least good, why should you worry about the rest?

I tell you, you will never get out again until you have paid the last cent!"

There are those now last who will then be first, and there are those now first who will be last."

"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go in search of the one that is lost, until he finds it?

and when he reaches home, he calls in his friends and neighbors, and says to them, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my lost sheep!'

And when she finds it, she calls in her friends and neighbors, and says to them, 'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin that I lost!'

for my son here was dead, and he has come to life; he was lost, and he is found!' So they began to celebrate.

But we had to celebrate and be glad, because your brother was dead, and has come to life, and was lost and is found!' "

For the Son of Man has come to search for what was lost and to save it."

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day.

Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the Last Day."

Whoever rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings is not without his judge; the very message I have given will be his judge on the Last Day,

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

Now at last they know that all that you have given me comes from you,

As long as I was with them I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost (except the one who was destined to be lost), so that what the Scripture says might come true.

This was to fulfil the saying he had uttered, "I have not lost one of those whom you have given me."

" 'It will come about in the last days, God says, That I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind; Your sons and daughters will become prophets, Your young men will have visions, And your old men will have dreams.

so that people would carry their sick out into the streets, and lay them down on beds and mats, to have at least Peter's shadow fall on some of them as he went by.

At last the recorder quieted the mob and said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell down from the sky?

For a number of days neither the sun nor the stars were visible, and the storm continued to rage, until at last we gave up all hope of being saved.

For last night an angel of the God I belong to and serve stood before me,

As they could not agree among themselves, they started to leave, when Paul added one last word. "The holy Spirit put it finely," he said, "when it said to your forefathers through the prophet Isaiah,

and to ask that somehow by God's will I may some day at last succeed in reaching you.

For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,

For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

The last enemy to be overthrown will be death,

This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised free from decay, and we shall be changed.

But if anyone has hurt anybody's feelings, it is not so much mine, as yours, or at least those of some of you, not to be too hard upon you all.

But I will tell you what I think about it. For this is the best way to deal with you, for you were the first not only to do anything about this, but to want to do anything, and that was last year.

for I know how willing you are to help in it; I boast of you for it to the people in Macedonia, telling them that Greece has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has been a stimulus to most of them.

For I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superfine apostles of yours.

I repeat, no one should think me a fool, but if you do, show me at least the patience you would show a fool, and let me have my little boast like the others.

You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.

This is why I, Paul, whom Jesus the Christ has made a prisoner for the sake of you heathen??2 if at least you have heard how I dealt with the mercy of God that was given me for you,

To me, the very least of all his people, this favor has been given, of preaching to the heathen the inexhaustible wealth of the Christ,

at least if you have really become acquainted with him and been instructed in him, and in union with him have been taught the truth as it is found in Jesus.

though I at least am entitled to rely on them. If anyone thinks he can rely on his physical advantages, still more can I!

Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ

through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

try to keep us from speaking to the heathen so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has overtaken them at last!

That was why, when I could not bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for I was afraid that the tempter might have tempted you and all our labor might be lost.

No one under sixty years of age should be put on the list of widows. A widow must have been married but once,

Do not put young women on the list of widows, for when their youthful vigor comes between them and Christ, they want to marry,

and mutual irritation between people of depraved minds, who are lost to the truth and think of religion only as a means of gain.

Understand this, that in the last days there are going to be hard times.

who does not need, as the old high priests did, to offer sacrifices every day, first for his own sins and then for those of the people??or this last he has done once for all, in offering up himself.

And they will not have to teach their townsmen and their brothers to know the Lord, For they will all know me, From the lowest to the highest.

to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,

your gold and silver are rusted, and their rust will testify against you and eat into your very flesh, for you have stored up fire for the last days.

and you by God's power are being protected through faith to receive a salvation that is now ready to be disclosed at the last time.

But the word of the Lord will last forever," that is, the good news that has been brought to you.

First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, going where their passions lead

Children, it is the last hour. You have heard that Antichrist is coming, and many Antichrists have indeed appeared. So we may be sure that it is the last hour.

for they said to you, "In the last times there will be mockers who will go where their own godless passions lead."

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. But he laid his right hand upon me, and said, "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last,

"To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: " 'The first and the last, who died and came to life again, speaks thus:

Then I saw another great, marvelous portent in heaven. There were seven angels with seven plagues which are to be the last, for they complete the expression of God's wrath.

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke to me. "Come," he said, "I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.