Nor should you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.

"No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!"

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot produce good fruit.

When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and told those who were following him, "I tell all of you with certainty, not even in Israel have I found this kind of faith!

The men were amazed. "What kind of man is this?" they asked. "Even the winds and the sea obey him!"

But this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting."

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and every kind of impurity.

because at that time there will be great suffering, the kind that hasn't happened from the beginning of the world until now and certainly won't ever happen again.

He went away a second time and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot go away unless I drink it, let your will be done."

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

So if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot stand. Indeed, his end has come.

He told them, "This kind can come out only by prayer and fasting."

So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell, to the fire that cannot be put out.

because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

Overwhelmed with amazement, they all kept saying to one another, "What kind of statement is this? because with authority and power he gives orders to unclean spirits, and they come out!"

Rather, love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind even to ungrateful and evil people.

When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found this kind of faith!"

Now the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this and told himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who is touching him and what kind of woman she is. She's a sinner!"

"How terrible it will be for you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, spices, and every kind of herb, but you neglect justice and the love of God. These are the things you should have practiced, without neglecting the others.

Then he told them, "Be careful to guard yourselves against every kind of greed, because a person's life doesn't consist of the amount of possessions he has."

"No servant can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and wealth!"

Besides all this, a wide chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot do so, nor can they cross from your side to us.'

The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

You'll look for me but won't find me. And where I am, you cannot come."

What does this statement mean that he said, "You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, "Where I am, you cannot come'?"

Later on, he told them again, "I'm going away, and you'll look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I'm going."

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?"

If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.

Peter told him, "You must never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you cannot be involved with me."

Little children, I'm with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders I now tell you, "Where I'm going, you cannot come.'

Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "I'm going where you cannot follow me now, though you will follow me later on."

He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

"I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

Now he said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, Jesus told him, "Keep following me."

since David says about him, "I always keep my eyes on the Lord, for he is at my right hand so that I cannot be shaken.

They said, "What should we do with these men? For it's obvious to everybody living in Jerusalem that an unmistakable sign has been done by them, and we cannot deny it.

for we cannot stop talking about what we've seen and heard."

""Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house can you build for me,' declares the Lord, "or what place is there in which I can rest?

Since these things cannot be denied, you must be quiet and not do anything reckless.

and they cannot prove to you the charges they are now bringing against me.

Paul told the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men remain onboard, you cannot be saved."

The people who lived there were unusually kind to us. It had started to rain and was cold, so they started a bonfire and invited us to join them around it.

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,

What if some of the Jews were unfaithful? Their unfaithfulness cannot cancel God's faithfulness, can it?

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.

Indeed, those who are under the control of human nature cannot please God.

For he says to Moses, "I will be merciful to the person I want to be merciful to, and I will be kind to the person I want to be kind to."

Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and keep their backs forever bent."

The person who eats any kind of food must not ridicule the person who does not eat them, and the person who does not eat certain foods must not criticize the person who eats them, for God has accepted him.

For by him you have become rich in every way in speech and knowledge of every kind

When slandered, we answer with kind words. Even now we have become the filth of the world, the scum of the universe.

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!

However, if they cannot control themselves, they should get married, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot dine with the Lord and dine with demons,

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you," or the head to the feet, "I don't need you."

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come back?"

But God gives the plant the form he wants it to have, and to each kind of seed its own form.

Not all flesh is the same. Humans have one kind of flesh, animals in general have another, birds have another, and fish have still another.

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of those in heaven is of one kind, and that of those on earth is of another.

One kind of splendor belongs to the sun, another to the moon, and still another to the stars. In fact, one star differs from another star in splendor.

This is how it will be at the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is decaying, what is raised cannot decay.

Brothers, this is what I mean: Mortal bodies cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and what decays cannot inherit what does not decay.

For what is decaying must be clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying must be clothed with what cannot die.

Now, when what is decaying is clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying is clothed with what cannot die, then the written word will be fulfilled: "Death has been swallowed up by victory!"

because we do not look for things that can be seen but for things that cannot be seen. For things that can be seen are temporary, but things that cannot be seen are eternal.

We will not boast about what cannot be evaluated. Instead, we will stay within the field that God assigned us, so as to reach even you.

We are not boasting about work done by others that cannot be evaluated. On the contrary, we cherish the hope that your faith may continue to grow and enlarge our sphere of action among you until it overflows.

was snatched away to Paradise and heard things that cannot be expressed in words, things that no human being has a right even to mention.

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

For it is written, "Rejoice, you childless woman, who cannot give birth to any children! Break into song and shout, you who feel no pains of childbirth! For the children of the deserted woman are more numerous than the children of the woman who has a husband."

Since they have lost all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to sensuality and practice every kind of sexual perversion without restraint.

And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in the Messiah.

Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.

and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault.

Pray in the Spirit at all times with every kind of prayer and request. Likewise, be alert with your most diligent efforts and pray for all the saints.

Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with the Messiah, for that is far better.

Nevertheless, it was kind of you to share my troubles.

for the gospel we brought did not come to you in words only, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. Indeed, you know what kind of people we proved to be while we were with you, acting on your behalf.

For people keep telling us what kind of welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve a living and true God

Keep away from every kind of evil.

The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the power of Satan. He will use every kind of power, including miraculous signs, lying wonders,

In the same way, good actions are obvious, and those that are not cannot remain hidden.

Our faith may fail, his never wanes That's who he is, he cannot change!

A servant of the Lord must not argue. Instead, he must be kind to everyone, teachable, willing to suffer wrong,

which is based on the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began.

They must be silenced, because they are the kind of people who ruin whole families by teaching what they should not teach in order to make money in a shameful way.

to be sensible and pure, to manage their households, to be kind, and to submit themselves to their husbands. Otherwise, the word of God may be discredited.

Use wholesome speech that cannot be condemned. Then any opponent will be ashamed because he cannot say anything bad about us.

Remind believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, and to be ready to do any honorable kind of work.

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood for on this basis the people received the Law what further need would there be to speak of appointing another kind of priest according to the order of Melchizedek, not one according to the order of Aaron?