so that you may show yourselves true sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on bad and good alike, and makes the rain fall on the upright and the wrongdoers.

And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew, and beat about that house, and it did not go down, for its foundations were on rock.

And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat about that house, and it went down, and its downfall was complete."

And the men who tended them ran away and went off to the town and told it all, and the news about the men possessed by demons.

I tell you, some of you who stand here will certainly live to see the Son of Man come to reign!"

And one of them ran off at once and got a sponge and soaked it in sour wine and put it on the end of a stick and held it up to him to drink.

And they hurried away from the tomb frightened and yet overjoyed, and ran to tell the news to his disciples.

saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."

And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,

"The reign of God," he said, "is like a man scattering seed on the ground,

"How can we find any comparison," he said, "for the reign of God, or what figure can we use to describe it?

And catching sight of Jesus in the distance he ran up and made obeisance to him

And the men who tended them ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around, and the people came to see what had happened.

And he said to them, "I tell you, some of you who stand here will certainly live to see the reign of God come in its might."

And all the people were amazed when they saw him, and they ran up to him and greeted him.

Blessed be the reign of our father David which is coming! God bless him from on high!"

but he left the cloth behind and ran away naked.

One man ran off and soaked a sponge in common wine, and put it on the end of a stick and held it up to him to drink, saying, "Let us see whether Elijah does come to take him down!"

Joseph of Arimathea, a highly respected member of the council, who was himself living in expectation of the reign of God, made bold to go to Pilate and ask for Jesus' body.

and he will reign over Jacob's house forever; his reign will have no end."

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod governor of Galilee, while his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the governor of Abilene,

And nobody puts new wine into old wine-skins, or if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and run out, and the skins will be spoiled.

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around.

And he said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say at once, 'It is going to rain,' and it does.

And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and pitied him, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree, to see him, for Jesus was coming that way.

But they will never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because they do not know the voices of strangers."

A hired man who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, will leave the sheep and run away, and the wolf will carry them off and scatter the flock.

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot do anything! The whole world has run after him!"

So she ran away and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple who was dear to Jesus, and said to them, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him."

And they both ran, and the other disciple ran faster than Peter and got to the tomb first.

Philip ran up and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and he said to him, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

and one of them named Agabus got up and under the influence of the Spirit revealed the fact that there was going to be a great famine all over the world. This was the famine that occurred in the reign of Claudius.

and when she recognized Peter's voice, in her joy she did not stop to open the door, but ran in and told them that Peter was standing outside.

though he did not fail to give some evidence about himself, through his kindnesses to you, in sending you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, giving you food and happiness to your heart's content."

So we sailed from Troas, and ran a straight course to Samothrace, and next day to Neapolis.

And the man in whom the evil spirit was sprang at them, and overpowered them all, with such violence that they ran out of the house tattered and bruised.

When the parting was over and we had sailed, we made a straight run to Cos and the next day to Rhodes and from there to Patara.

After making the run from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and spent a day with them.

When a moderate south wind sprang up, thinking their object was within reach, they weighed anchor, and ran close along the coast of Crete.

The ship was caught by it and could not face the wind, so we gave way and let her run before it.

The sailors wanted to escape from the ship, and actually lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to run out anchors from the bow,

When daylight came they could not recognize the coast, but they saw a bay with a beach and determined to run the ship ashore there if possible.

But they struck a shoal and ran the ship aground. The bow struck and could not be moved, while the stern began to break up under the strain.

The natives showed us remarkable kindness, for they made a fire and welcomed us, because of the rain that had come on and the cold.

Ruin and wretchedness mark their paths,

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

so that just as sin had reigned through death, mercy might reign through uprightness and bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So sin must not reign over your mortal bodies, and make you obey their cravings,

And David said, "Let their feasting prove a snare and a trap to them, Their ruin and their retribution.

I ask then, has their stumbling led to their absolute ruin? By no means. Through their false step salvation has gone to the heathen, so as to make the Israelites jealous.

For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

For the reign of God is not a matter of words but of power.

Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.

So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.

Why do we ourselves run such risks every hour?

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

So also does Jesus who is called Justus. They are the only ones among the converts from Judaism who have worked with me for the reign of God who have proved a comfort to me.

They will be punished with eternal ruin and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and his glorious might,

But men who want to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, harmful cravings, that plunge people into destruction and ruin.

If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us!

I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith.

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.

Then he prayed again, and the heavens yielded rain and the earth produced crops.

speaking of it as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which ignorant, unsteadfast people twist to their own ruin, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures.

and have made them a kingdom of priests for our God, and they are to reign over the earth."

They have the power to shut up the sky, so that no rain will fall during the days when they are prophesying, and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to smite the earth with any plague whenever they please.

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices were heard in heaven, saying, "The sovereignty of the world has passed into the possession of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever."

saying, "We give you thanks, Lord God Almighty, who are and were, because you have assumed your great power and begun to reign.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, "The deliverance and power and reign of our God, and the authority of his Christ have now come, for the accuser of our brothers, who kept bringing charges against them day and night before our God, has been hurled down.

The ten horns that you saw are also ten kings, who have not yet begun to reign, but for a single hour they receive authority as kings along with the animal.

Blessed and holy is the man who experiences the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them; they will be priests of God and the Christ, and reign with him for the thousand years.

and ran through the middle of the principal street of the city. On both sides of the river grew the tree of life. It bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a different kind each month, and its leaves were a cure for the heathen.

There will no longer be any night and they will have no need of lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.