On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

The crowd answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ remains for ever. In what sense do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is that Son of Man?"

"Master," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going. In what sense do we know the way?"

"And now, impelled by a sense of duty, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

They were secret backbiters, open slanderers; hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of sin, disobedient to parents, destitute of common sense,

I speak as to men of sense: judge for yourselves of what I say.

On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.

And may the Lord of peace Himself continually grant you peace in every sense. The Lord be with you all.

In accordance with His will He made us His children through the Message of the truth, so that we might, in a sense, be the Firstfruits of the things which He has created.

For it is an acceptable thing with God, if, from a sense of duty to Him, a man patiently submits to wrong, when treated unjustly.

The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But He bears patiently with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that all should come to repentance.