Later on Levi was sitting at table in his house, and together with Jesus and his disciples a number of tax-gatherers and sinners were guests, for there were many of them who used to follow him.

With many such illustrations Jesus used to tell his message to people as far as they were able to receive it;

and to them it was his practice never to speak except in parables. But he used to explain everything in private to his disciples.

salt is excellent, but if the salt has lost its savor, what will you use to restore its saltness? Then have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

Now every evening he used to go outside the city;

women who used to follow him when he was in Galilee, and minister to him; and many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him.

So John used to say to the crowd of those who were going out to be baptized by him. "You breed of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

But Jesus himself habitually withdrew into solitary places, and there used to pray.

and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who used to minister to him out of their substance.

"And to you I say, Use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make yourselves friends, so that when it shall fail they will welcome you to the eternal tabernacles.

And each day he was habitually in the Temple teaching, and at night he used to go out and lodge on the mount called the Olives Orchards.

And all the people used to come him early in the morning in the Temple, to listen to him.

Surely you are not greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle, too?"

It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people??lind, lame, paralyzed.

Upon this the neighbors and those who used to know him by sight as a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

It was winter, and Jesus used to walk in the Temple, in Solomon's Portico.

used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

"Feed my sheep," said Jesus. "In solemn truth I tell you that when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands for some one to gird you, and carry you where you do not wish to go."

and recognized that this was the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

but were unable to withstand the wisdom and spirit with which he used to speak.

He also used to hold conversations and debates with the Grecian Jews, but they kept trying to kill him.

So Peter arose and went with them. On his arrival they took him up-stairs, and all the widows stood near him, weeping, and showing him the cloaks and garments which Dorcas used to make, while she was still with them.

"Then I remembered the words of the Lord, how he used to say, "John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

Now at Lystra there used to sit a certain man, lame in his feet, a cripple from birth, who had never walked.

She used to follow after Paul and us, crying out again and again, "These men are servants of the most high God, who proclaimed to you the way of salvation."

Every Sabbath he used to preach in the synagogue, and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord, and being full of zeal, he used to speak and to teach accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish high priest who used to do this.

Many also of those who became believers used to come to confess and to declare their deeds.

He was hoping that Paul would give him money, and for this reason he used to send for him often to converse with him.

After hauling it aboard, they used ropes to undergird the ship, and since they were fearful lest they should be driven upon the Syrtes, they lowered the gear and lay to.

After this Paul lived for two whole years in his own rented house, and used to receive all who came to see him.

and on the other hand their men likewise abandoned the natural use of women, and were ablaze with passion for one another; men with men practising shameless acts and receiving in their own person that recompense of their wrong-doing which necessarily followed.

What special privilege, then, has the Jew? Or what is the use of circumcision?

Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

Or has not the potter power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for noble, and another for ignoble uses?

Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity.

and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.

If then I do not know the force of expression, I shall seem a barbarian to the one who uses it, and he will seem a barbarian to me.

Therefore, cherishing such a hope, I use great freedom of speech.

I do not do as Moses did, who used to cover his face with a veil to keep the children of Israel from beholding the passing of a fading glory.

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;

only they used to hear it said, "He who was once persecuting us is now preaching the gospel of the very faith which he once tried to ruin."

For until certain men came from James he used to eat with the Gentile Christians, but when they came, he began to draw back and to separate himself, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

but just as in old times the son born by the flesh used to persecute the son born by the power of the Spirit, so also it is now.

For there are many??s I used often to tell you, and am now telling you even with tears??ho live and walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

For even when I was with you I used to tell you beforehand that I was to suffer affliction; and so it proved, as you know.

For indeed when I was with you, I used to charge you, "If any man will not work, he shall not eat."

Although they desire to be teachers of the law, they understand neither the words they use nor the subjects they talk about.

I know well that "the Law is good" if a man use it lawfully;

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in God, who provides all things richly for our use.

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for noble, some for ignoble uses.

partly by being made a public spectacle in reproaches and afflictions, and partly by sharing the fortunes of those that were so used.

Furthermore, our earthly fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

For in this way in the olden time the holy women also, who put their trust in God, used to adorn themselves. They were ever in submission to their own husbands;

Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Yet these men blaspheme about matters of which they know nothing, while they use such things as they do understand by instinct (like the animals who have no reason) for their own destruction.

how they used to say to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will be led only by their godless passions."