"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.

and they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'"

But I tell you, from now [on] I will never drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father."

And they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'

Truly I say to you that I will never drink of the fruit of the vine any longer until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

And no one [after] drinking old [wine] wants new, because he says, 'The old is [just] fine!'"

"Now a certain man was rich, and dressed [in] purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day.

For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the product of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

Remain in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit from itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither [can] you, unless you remain in me.

"I am the vine; you [are] the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him--this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you are not able to do anything.

the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples conspire in vain?

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

But if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching [is] in vain, and your faith [is] in vain.

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.

Now [because we] are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.

I am afraid [for] you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain!

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

For [you] yourselves know, brothers, our reception with you, that it was not in vain,

Because of this, I also, [when I] could endure [it] no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter tempted you and our labor should be in vain.

For if someone enters into your assembly in fine clothing with a gold ring on his finger, and a poor person in filthy clothing also enters,

and you look favorably on the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, "Be seated here in a good place," and to the poor person you say, "You stand or be seated there by my footstool,"

Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?

Let your adornment not be the external [kind], braiding hair and putting on gold jewelry or putting on [fine] clothing,

and his feet [were] like fine bronze when it has been fired in a furnace, and his voice [was] like the sound of many waters,

"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: "This is what the Son of God says, the one who has his eyes like a fiery flame and his feet like fine bronze:

And another angel who had authority over the fire [went out] from the altar, and he called out with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send out your sharp sickle and harvest the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are at their prime!"

And the angel swung his sickle into the earth and harvested the vine of the earth, and threw [the grapes] into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

cargo of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple cloth and silk and scarlet cloth and all kinds of scented wood and all kinds of ivory goods and all kinds of goods of precious wood and bronze and iron and marble

and cinnamon and amomum and incense and ointment and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine wheat flour and wheat and domesticated animals and sheep and horses and carriages and {slaves} and human lives.

saying, "Woe, woe, the great city, dressed in fine linen and purple cloth and scarlet cloth, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls,

And it has been granted to her that she be dressed in bright, clean fine linen (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints).

And the armies [that are] in heaven, dressed in clean, white fine linen, were following him on white horses.