And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit.

It is no good for the land or for the place of waste; no one has a use for it. He who has ears, let him give ear.

So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

Now God is witness that the things which I am writing to you are true.

Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.

Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water: