"Can the friends fast at a wedding-feast," said Jesus, "so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom has been taken from them, and then they will fast.

"Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented, long ago, in sackcloth and ashes.

But the boat was already a long way from shore, buffeted by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

In reply Jesus said: "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me!"

"When he went out about five o'clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, "'Why have you been standing here idle, all the day long?'

But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,'

"After a long time the master of those slaves came, and demanded a reckoning with them.

"Can friends of the bridegroom fast while he is still with them?" asked Jesus. "As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

"O unbelieving generation!" replied Jesus; "how long must I be with you? How long must I be patient with you? Bring him to me."

Then Jesus asked the father, "How long has he been like this?"

and in his teaching he said: "Look out for the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and to receive salutations in the street, and to have prominent places in the synagogues,

they who consume the property of widows and make long, pretentious prayers. The greater shall their condemnation be."

Meanwhile the people were waiting for Zachariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the sanctuary.

When he landed here he was met by a certain townsman who was possessed by demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes and nor lived in any house, but in tombs.

"O faithless and perverse generation," said Jesus, "how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son to me."

"Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! For had the mighty been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Then he said turning to his disciples. "The days will come when you shall long to see one of the days of the Son of man, you shall not see it.

Then he began to tell the people this parable. "There was a man who planted a vineyard, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went to another country for a long time.

"Beware of the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and dote on salutations in the marketplaces, and on securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;

"but they devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive severer condemnation."

So they seized him and led him away, and took him to the house of the high priest; while Peter was following him a long way off.

Now when Herod saw Jesus he was exceedingly glad. He had long been wanting to see him, because he had heard so much about him, and was hoping to see some miracles performed by him.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

"Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

They were giving heed to him because, for a long time, he had amazed them with his sorceries.

Long time, therefore, they tarried there, speaking fearlessly in the Lord, who attested the word of his grace by permitting signs and wonders to be performed by their hands.

and after there had been a long discussion, Peter rose and said: "Brothers, you know how a good while ago God made choice among you, that from my lips the Gentiles were to hear the message of the gospel and believe.

Then he went upstairs again, broke bread and took some food, and after talking with them a long time, even until daybreak, he left them.

And some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us. They led us to the house of Mnason, a Cypriote, a disciple of long standing, with whom we were to lodge.

"Long or short," answered Paul, "my prayer to God is that not only you but all who are my hearers this day might become such as I am, save for these chains."

But it was not long before a furious wind, called Euroclydon, rushed down from the island;

When for a long time they had been without food, Paul stood among them and said: "Men, you ought to have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and so have spared yourselves this injury and loss.

But they kept expecting him to swell up or fall down dead suddenly. But after waiting a long time, and seeing no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said over and over that he was a god.

Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?

Even as it is written. For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

But what if God, while intending to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, yet endured, with much long-suffering, vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction?

But to Israel he says, All day long I have been spreading out my hands unto a disobedient and contrary people.

Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed.

Nor does nature itself teach you that it is a disgrace to a man to have long hair,

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;

With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you.

I long to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, by sharing the likeness of his death;

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope in the message which came to you of the truth of the gospel.

Although I am hoping to come to you before long,

And might deliver those who through fear of death had been subject to life-long bondage.

On the contrary, encourage each other daily, so long as there is a "Today," so that no one of you is hindered by the deceitfulness of sin.

For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.

It was revealed to them that it was not for themselves, but for you, that they were ministering the truths which have now been announced to you, by those who preached the gospel to you, through the help of the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven??ruths into which angels long to look.

Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,

And with a loud voice they cried, saying, "O Master, holy and true, How long dost thou not judge And avenge our blood On those who dwell on the earth?"

In those days men will seek death, and will not find it; they will long to die, but death ever flees from them.