"No, every good tree bears good fruit, but a worthless tree bears bad fruit.

But a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him, and touched the tassel of his cloak.

"Do not suppose that I am come to bring peace on the earth; I am come not to bring peace, but a sword.

"Is there a man of you," he replied, "who has but a single sheep, who will not lay hold of it and lift it out, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath Day?

But at once Jesus spoke to them, "Courage," he said, "it is I. Fear not."

Jesus answered. "I also will put a question to you, which, if you tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

But at midnight there arose a cry, "'Behold, the bridegroom! Go out to meet him!'

Then he went forward a short distance, and fell on his face and prayed. "O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."

But at three o'clock Jesus cried out in loud voice, "Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?" (That is to say, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?")

But a great gale of wind came up, and the waves were dashing into the boat so that it began to fill.

He bade them take nothing but a staff for their journey; no bread, no wallet, no coins in their purse;

but a seat upon my right hand or my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been reserved."

Presently Jesus began to speak to them in parables. "There was once a man," he said, "who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine-press, built a tower, rented it to tenants, and went abroad.

"Master," answered Simon, "although we toiled all night, we took nothing; but at your bidding I will let down the nets."

"And that which fell upon thorns is those who have heard, but as they go on their way of word is choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life; so they bring no fruit of perfection.

for he had only one daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay dying. But as he went the crowds continued to press in on him.

"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was, and when he saw him was moved with compassion.

"And they all, without exception, proceeded to excuse themselves. The first told him. 'I have bought a field, and must needs go and see it. Pray have me excused.'

So they put a question to him saying. "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not regard any man's person, but teach the way of God honestly.

But a certain maid servant saw him taking his seat near the fire and, with a sharp glance at him, she said, "This fellow was with him, too!"

But an hour afterwards another man kept insisting, saying. "Really, this fellow was with him. Why, he is a Galilean."

But the whole story seemed to them but an idle tale; and they disbelieved the women.

So he went in to stay with them. But as he sat down with them, and took bread, and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them,

But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is seeking such as his worshipers.

"But as I told you, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.

then he went too??ot openly, but as it were a secret.

"But as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

"But a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,

"Now this man bought a plot of ground with the price of his treachery, and falling there headlong he burst asunder and all his bowels gushed out.

But a man named Ananias who, with his wife Sapphira, sold a farm of his,

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors during the night, and let them out.

"but as the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise which God made to Abraham, the people multiplied and increased in Egypt;

"But at the end of forty years there appeared to him, in the desert of Mt. Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush.

But as the disciples collected around him, he rose and went back into the city. The next day he went off with Barnabas into Derbe;

But at midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

But as they opposed him and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, and said: "Your blood be upon your own hands. I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

but as these are merely questions about words and names and your own law, you yourselves must see to it. I am not willing to be a judge of these matters."

"I paid a large sum to get this citizenship," said the tribune. "But I was citizen-born," said Paul.

"I could not find that he had done anything for which he ought to die; but as he himself has appealed to the Emperor, I have determined to send him.

Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith.

but a man who does not "work," but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith imputed to him for righteousness.

For we know that the Law is spiritual; but as for me, I am a creature of flesh, bought and sold under the dominion of sin.

And in regard to Israel, Isaiah exclaims. Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sands of the sea, it is but a remnant of those who shall be saved;

Supposing that some of the branches have been broken off, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among the branches and have become a partaker with them of the fatness of the olive tree, do not glory over the branches;

So let us no longer pass judgment on one another; rather let this be your judgment, that no one put a stumbling-block in his brother's way, nor any cause of falling.

Do not, for the sake of food, be tearing down God's work. All food indeed is ceremonially clean, but a man is in the wrong if his food proves a stumbling-block.

For even Christ pleased not himself; but as it is written, The reproaches of those who were reproaching thee fell upon me.

But, as Scripture says, He shall be seen by those to whom no news about him ever came, And those who have never heard of him shall understand.

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind.

If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ's gospel.

while I am gazing not at things seen, but at things unseen; for things seen are temporal, but things unseen are eternal.

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

What I am about to say I am not speaking by the Lord's command, but as it were in pure folly, in this boldness of boasting.

but a curse rests on those who have their root in the works of the Law; for it is written. Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them.

So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God's grace.

For in Jesus Christ neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

See to it, then, that you carry on your life carefully; not as foolish, but as wise men.

But as the church submits itself to Christ, so also wives to their husbands in everything.

But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

not with eye service, as men-pleasers, but as the slaves of Christ, doing the will of God;

but am in a quandary between the two. I am perplexed. I have a strong desire to break camp and to be with Christ, which is far better;

But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.

For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

but (as becomes women proclaiming godliness) with the ornament of good deeds.

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power and of love and of self-control.

This has now been made manifest through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who has put an end to death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

It is for this reason that the Christ, on coming into the world, declared. Sacrifice and offerings thou dost not desire, But a body didst thou prepare for me;

henceforth waiting until his enemies be put as the footstool of his feet.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fiery indignation which is about to devour the adversaries.

but a rich brother, in his humiliation; because like the flower of the grass the rich man will pass away.

But the man who looks closely into the perfect law??he law of liberty??nd continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.

and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, find warmth and food for yourselves," but at the same time you do not give the necessaries of the body, what good would that do them?

Do not be talking against each other, brothers. He who is talking against a brother and condemning his brothers is talking against the Law and condemning the Law. But if you are condemning the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.

But as for you, dearly beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality.

But as for the cowards, the faithless, the abominable, And for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, Idolaters, and all liars, Their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. "This is the second death."