For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

Then he said, "Truly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country.

Let not him who eats despise him who does not, and let not him who does not eat pass judgment on him who eats; for God has accepted him.

For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord.

For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

Beloved, I pray that you may be in good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.

Jesus turned, and when he saw her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that moment.

Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle?"

So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who does not marry her will do better.