as it is written, "God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear; unto this present day."

instructing us, that denying ungodliness and worldly affections, we should live soberly and righteously, and godly in the present day;

but the present heavens and earth by the same word are treasured up, reserved for fire at the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God.

For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as present, passed judgment on him who hath so done this thing;

And when the days of her purification were accomplished according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;

For John indeed baptised with water; but ye shall be baptised with the Holy Ghost not many days after the present.

But from the days of John the Baptist unto the present, the kingdom of heaven is assaulted by violence, and the invaders forcibly seize upon it.

I speak humanly, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have presented your members servants to impurity and iniquity for iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness.