For he is the one spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, who said:

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way for the Lord;
make His paths straight!

“Follow Me,” He told them, “and I will make you fish for people!”

Neither should you swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.

“Whenever you fast, don’t be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they make their faces unattractive so their fasting is obvious to people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

Right away a man with a serious skin disease came up and knelt before Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

No one patches an old garment with unshrunk cloth, because the patch pulls away from the garment and makes the tear worse.

He warned them not to make Him known,

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it’s good for us to be here! If You want, I will make three tabernacles here: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

[“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show. This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.]

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as fit for hell as you are!

“You have a guard of soldiers,” Pilate told them. “Go and make it as secure as you know how.”

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way for the Lord;
make His paths straight!

“Follow Me,” Jesus told them, “and I will make you fish for people!”

Then a man with a serious skin disease came to Him and, on his knees, begged Him: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

On the Sabbath He was going through the grainfields, and His disciples began to make their way picking some heads of grain.

And He would strongly warn them not to make Him known.

They were extremely astonished and said, “He has done everything well! He even makes deaf people hear, and people unable to speak, talk!”

Then Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it’s good for us to be here! Let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”—

Out of the crowd, one man answered Him, “Teacher, I brought my son to You. He has a spirit that makes him unable to speak.

Salt is good, but if the salt should lose its flavor, how can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.”

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.”

And he will go before Him
in the spirit and power of Elijah,
to turn the hearts of fathers
to their children,
and the disobedient
to the understanding of the righteous,
to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.

as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah:

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way for the Lord;
make His paths straight!

While He was in one of the towns, a man was there who had a serious skin disease all over him. He saw Jesus, fell facedown, and begged Him: “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Jesus said to them, “You can’t make the wedding guests fast while the groom is with them, can you?

As the two men were departing from Him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it’s good for us to be here! Let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”—not knowing what he said.

He sent messengers ahead of Him, and on the way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make preparations for Him.

Fools! Didn’t He who made the outside make the inside too?

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

As you are going with your adversary to the ruler, make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won’t drag you before the judge, the judge hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able

“But without exception they all began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.’

“Then the master told the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and lanes and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

Otherwise, after he has laid the foundation and cannot finish it, all the onlookers will begin to make fun of him,

I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired hands.’

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of the unrighteous money so that when it fails, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings.

Whoever tries to make his life secure will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

until I make Your enemies Your footstool.’

Therefore make up your minds not to prepare your defense ahead of time,

Then he will show you a large, furnished room upstairs. Make the preparations there.”

He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord—just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

Therefore, when Jesus knew that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He withdrew again to the mountain by Himself.

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not telling you that I will make requests to the Father on your behalf.

I made Your name known to them
and will make it known,
so the love You have loved Me with
may be in them and I may be in them.

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

until I make Your enemies Your footstool.’

They told Aaron:

Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

Did not My hand make all these things?

Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed,” and immediately he got up.

Then some of the crowd gave Alexander advice when the Jews pushed him to the front. So motioning with his hand, Alexander wanted to make his defense to the people.

So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. However, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”

“I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that today I am going to make a defense before you about everything I am accused of by the Jews,

In all the synagogues I often tried to make them blaspheme by punishing them. I even pursued them to foreign cities since I was greatly enraged at them.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, so that righteousness may be credited to them also.

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?

And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—

But I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” First, Moses said:

I will make you jealous
of those who are not a nation;
I will make you angry by a nation
that lacks understanding.

I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.

Who are you to criticize another’s household slave? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand. For the Lord is able to make him stand.

It is a noble thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother stumble.

For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

for Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn’t receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn’t received it?

Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it. For this world in its current form is passing away.

Food will not make us acceptable to God. We are not inferior if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.

But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my authority in the gospel.

Even inanimate things that produce sounds—whether flute or harp—if they don’t make a distinction in the notes, how will what is played on the flute or harp be recognized?

In fact, if the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will prepare for battle?

For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him.

And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.

Now I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the gentleness and graciousness of Christ—I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent.

Now from those recognized as important (what they really were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism)—they added nothing to me.

Brothers, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to even a human covenant that has been ratified.

Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised—but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.

to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.

Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.

Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus,

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

I have become its servant, according to God’s administration that was given to me for you, to make God’s message fully known,

God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

May He make your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

It is not that we don’t have the right to support, but we did it to make ourselves an example to you so that you would imitate us.

But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs was also.

Make every effort to come to me soon,

Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.