And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You.”

and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus *said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise for Yourself’?”

Jesus *said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures,
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;
This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

But Peter said to Him, “Even though all may fall away because of You, I will never fall away.”

And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”

And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;

but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will.

Truly I say to you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;

He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”

for I say to you, I shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.

The Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this man become learned, having never been educated?”

The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.”

They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You will become free’?”

Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death.”

The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death.’

Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.

and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Peter *said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”

But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean.”

‘Behold, you scoffers, and marvel, and perish;
For I am accomplishing a work in your days,
A work which you will never believe, though someone should describe it to you.’”

At Lystra a man was sitting who had no strength in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.

May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written,
“That You may be justified in Your words,
And prevail when You are judged.”

May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.

May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!

But I say, surely they have never heard, have they? Indeed they have;
“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,
And their words to the ends of the world.”

I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.

Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.

Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be!

Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.

But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness—

always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.

Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,”

Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;

having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;

To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’

In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed;