and when men light a lamp, they do not put it under a bushel: but on the stand, to give light to all the family.

When ye fast, don't put on a dismal air, as the hypocrites do, who look dejected, that men may take notice of their fasting: I assure you, they have their reward.

and he answer'd, which of you all that should have one of his sheep fall into a pit on the sabbath-day, would not bestir himself, and lift it out?

and whosoever shall stumble at this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, he shall be entirely crush'd.

just so ye put on an air of probity in the sight of men, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

and having stripp'd him, they put on him a scarlet robe.

Again he said, is a lamp ever brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? or to be set on a stand?

they will treat him with ignominy, subject him to the lash, spit upon him, and at last put him to death. but on the third day he will rise again.

and they put on him a purple cloth, and set a wreath of thorns upon his head for a crown;

and being brought to bed of her first born, she swathed him, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

Wherefore (said he to his disciples,) be not sollicitous for your life, what ye shall eat; nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

whoever falls upon that stone shall be bruised, but on whom it falls, it will crush him to pieces.

for he is not the God of the dead, but of the living. they are all then alive with respect to him.

put on your girdle, continu'd the angel, and bind on your sandals: which he did. throw your cloak over you, said the angel, and follow me.

but it is the Jew, who is so inwardly, and it is the circumcision of the heart, according to the spiritual, not the literal sense, which have the approbation, I do not say of men, but of God.

for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,

so that this is a matter not dependent on him that wills or runs, but on God, who shews mercy.

nay, but, O man, who art thou, to raise a dust against heaven? shall the pitcher say to him that formed it, "why hast thou made me thus?"

in business be not slothful, but of an active mind, making the best use of every incident.

for God is not the God of confusion, but of peace, in all christian assemblies.

nay, I abandon'd my self to death, that I might not rely upon my self for deliverance, but on God who raiseth the dead.

which shows you to be the epistle of Christ, written by my ministration, not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on living tables of the heart.

who also hath enabled me to be a minister of the new covenant, not of the literal sense, but of the spiritual meaning: it is the letter that denounces death, but the spirit gives life.

and no wonder; for satan himself may put on the appearance of an angel of light.

so then, my brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free-woman, by virtue of that freedom which Christ has procur'd for us.

put on the set of divine armour, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

but God had pity on him, and not on him only, but on me likewise, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

not given to wine or violence, but of a gentle temper, averse to contention and avarice: a master of economy,

for the spirit, which God has given us, is not a spirit of timidity, but of fortitude, of benevolence, and of moderation.

in a palace there are vessels not only of gold, and of silver, but of wood and of earth likewise: some are for honourable uses, and others for meaner purposes.

but Christ, the high priest of a better dispensation that was to come, having appeared, is enter'd into the holy of holys by a nobler and more perfect tabernacle, not the effect of human art, but of a higher nature;

the figure of the locusts were like that of horses prepared to battle; but on their heads they had, as it were, crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.