Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground unless your Father wills it.

You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said,

So he ordered the crowd to recline on the ground.

"You shall drink my cup," said Jesus, "but it is not for me to grant seats at my right hand and at my left; these belong to the men for whom they have been destined by my Father."

But the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites ??as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me:

So he ordered the crowd to recline on the ground, and taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve out. They served them out to the crowd,

So they brought the boy to him, and when the spirit saw Jesus it at once convulsed the boy; he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

but it is not for me to grant seats at my right or my left hand ??these belong to the men for whom they have been destined."

And all were astounded at this grand display of God. But while all marvelled at all he did, he said to his disciples,

and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you ??and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

he fell into an agony and prayed with greater intensity, his sweat dropping to the ground like clots of blood.]

They were terrified and bent their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look among the dead for him who is alive?

(They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;

then he stooped down again and wrote on the ground.

With these words he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, which he smeared on the man's eyes,

But now ??well, I know whatever you ask God for, he will grant you."

You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit ??fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.

When he said, "I am he," they fell back and dropped to the ground;

He glanced in and saw the bandages lying on the ground, but he did not go inside.

Then Simon Peter came after him, and went inside the tomb; he noticed not only that the bandages were lying on the ground

With the money paid him for his crime he purchased an estate; but swelling up he burst in two, and all his bowels poured out ??19 a fact which became known to all the residents in Jerusalem, so that the estate got the name, in their language, of Akeldamach or The Ground of Blood.

So now, O Lord, consider the threats of these men, and grant that thy servants may be perfectly fearless in speaking thy word,

God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.

During these days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists began to complain against the Hebrews, on the ground that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

But the Lord said to him, 'Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is sacred ground.

he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

Saul got up from the ground, but though his eyes were open he could see nothing; so they took his hand and led him to Damascus.

I have no wish to weary you, but I beg of you to grant us in your courtesy a brief hearing.

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? You hurt yourself by kicking at the goad.'

May the God who inspires stedfastness and encouragement grant you such harmony with one another, after Christ Jesus,

Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation for the knowledge of himself,

praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man.

So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe.

Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail,

May the Lord of peace himself grant you peace continually, whatever comes. The Lord be with you all.

(may he find favour with the Lord on the great Day! The Lord grant it!). And you know very well what a help he was to me in Ephesus.

The first time I had to defend myself, I had no supporters; everyone deserted me. God grant it may not be brought up against them!

I prefer to appeal to you on the ground of love. Well then, as Paul the old man, who now-a-days is a prisoner for Christ Jesus,

also I will grant him to see the Morning-star.'