Therefore whosoever heareth these my sayings, and doth them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock: And the rain descended,

But every one that heareth these my sayings, and doth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

(And behold a woman who had had a flux of blood, twelve years, coming behind him, touched the hem of his garment.

And when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the darnel also.

And Jesus answering said to him, Happy art thou, Simon Barjonah; for flesh and blood have not revealed this to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

And I say also to thee, Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Hear another parable. There was a certain housholder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

Wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous.

And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many, for the remission of sins.

At last came two false witnesses, And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

Saying, I have sinned, in betraying innocent blood.

And the chief priests taking the pieces of silver, said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood unto this day.

But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. Then Pilate, seeing, that he could prevail nothing, but rather a tumult was made, took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just man: see ye to it.

Then all the people answering said, His blood be on us and on our children.

For the earth bringeth forth fruit of itself, first the blade, then the ear, after that, the full corn in the ear.

And a certain woman who had had an issue of blood twelve years, And had suffered many things of many physicians,

And the fountain of her blood was straightway dried up, and she knew in her body, that she was healed of that plague.

And he said to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a wine-fat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

And he said to them, This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many.

saying, We heard him say, I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

And rising up, thrust him out of the city, and brought him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, to cast him down headlong.

He is like a man, who built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream broke vehemently upon that house, but could not shake it; for it was founded on a rock.

But he that heareth, and doth not, is like a man that built an house without a foundation upon the earth: against which the stream broke vehemently, and immediately it fell: and the breach of that house was great.

For he loveth our nation, and hath himself built us a synagogue.

And a woman who had had an issue of blood twelve years, and had spent all her living upon Physicians, neither could be healed by any,

Came behind him and touched the border of his garment, and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

Wo to you; for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets; whom your fathers killed.

Truly ye bear witness that ye approve the deeds of your fathers: for whom they killed, ye build their sepulchres.

So that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world, shall be required of this generation.

From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was destroyed between the temple and the altar: verily I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

For I have no room where to stow my fruits. And he said, This I will do: I will pull down my barns and build greater; and there will I stow all my fruits and my goods.

And there were present at that season, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

And which of you intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and computeth the cost, whether he hath sufficient to finish it?

saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood which is shed for you.

And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

Who were born, not of blood, nor by the will of the flesh, nor by the will of man, but of God.

But Jesus said to them, Verily, verily I say unto you, unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.

But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and forthwith there came out blood and water.

And it was known to all that dwell at Jerusalem, so that that field is called, in their own tongue, Akeldama, that is, The field of blood.

blood and fire, and vapour of smoke, The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord, the great and illustrious day, come.

Did not we strictly command you, Not to teach in this name? And lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and would bring the blood of this man upon us.

But Solomon built him an house.

What house will ye build me, saith the Lord: or What is the place of my rest?

Then the church through all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria had peace: and being built up, and walking in the fear of God, and the comfort of the Holy Ghost, was multiplied.

And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written, After this I will return and build again the fallen tabernacle of David;

I will build again the ruins thereof,

But that we write to them, to abstain from things offered to idols and fornication, and things strangled and blood.

For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, that no further burden be laid upon you than these necessary things, To abstain from meats offered to idols and blood,

But when they set themselves in opposition and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said to them, Your blood is upon your own head; I am pure: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men:

Take heed therefore to yourselves and to the whole flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified.

As touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written and determined, that they should observe no such thing; save only that they keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting to his death, and kept the garments of them that slew him.

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Whom God hath set forth as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness by the remission of past sins, through the forbearance of God: For a demonstration,

Much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

But Isaiah is very bold and saith, I was found by them that sought me not: I was made manifest to them that asked not after me.

But I have striven, so to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation.

For other foundation can no man lay, than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ: And if any one build on this foundation, gold, silver, costly stones;

If any one's work which he hath built thereon shall remain, he shall receive a reward.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?

In like manner also he took the cup after he had supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: do this as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

So that whosoever shall eat the bread and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Now I Paul myself, who when present am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you, intreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,

I beseech, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold toward some, who think of us as walking after the flesh:

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood:

God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

by which he hath freely accepted us through the beloved, By whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins,

But now through Christ Jesus, ye who were once far off are brought nigh by the blood of Christ.

Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone, On whom all the building fitly framed together,

On whom ye also are built together, for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the world, of the darkness of this age, against wicked spirits in heavenly places.

And many of the brethren trusting in the Lord through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word without fear.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins:

And by him to reconcile all things to himself (having made peace by him, through the blood of the cross) whether things on earth, or things in heaven.

Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

and had been shamefully intreated at Philippi, as ye know, we were bold thro' our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much contention.

But let us who are of the day keep awake, having put on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.

Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ, to enjoin thee what is convenient,

Since then the children partake of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil:

Now every house is built by some one: but he that built all things is God.

But into the second, only the high-priest once a year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself and the errors of the people:

not made with hands, that is, not of this building, And not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

Whence neither was the first testament consecrated without blood.

For when Moses had spoken all the commandment according to the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wooll, and hyssop, and the book itself,

and sprinkled all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you.

And in like manner he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service.

And almost all things are according to the law purified with blood, and withoutshedding of blood there is no remission.

Nor did he enter, that he might offer himself often (as the high-priest entered into the holy place every year with the blood of others.)