If the household is receptive, let your blessing of peace come on it. But if it isn't receptive, let your blessing of peace return to you.

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.

Be like people who are waiting for their master to return from a wedding. As soon as he arrives and knocks, they will open the door for him.

Then he told the man who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, stop inviting only your friends, brothers, relatives, or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return and you would be repaid.

Except for this foreigner, were any of them found to return and give praise to God?"

So he said, "A prince went to a distant country to be appointed king and then to return.

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

but our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and wished to return to Egypt.

For this is the language of the promise: "At this time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."

I call upon God as a witness on my behalf that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we have in God's presence because of you?

For "in a very little while the one who is coming will return he will not delay;

by saying, "What happened to the Messiah's promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation."