Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

But when Jesus heard this, he told the synagogue leader, "Stop being afraid! Just believe, and she will get well."

There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.

They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Even those who were being tormented by unclean spirits were being healed.

When he saw one of them being mistreated, he defended him and avenged the man who was being mistreated by killing the Egyptian.

Now, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before.

For the message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God's power to us who are being saved.

And you are being arrogant instead of being filled with grief and seeing to it that the man who did this is removed from among you.

yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom everything came into being and for whom we live. And there is only one Lord, Jesus the Messiah, through whom everything came into being and through whom we live.

Now, while we are being judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so we won't be condemned along with the world.

Otherwise, what will those people do who are being baptized because of those who have died? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they being baptized because of them?

To God we are the aroma of the Messiah among those who are being saved and among those who are being lost.

Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.

What, then, does this mean? Are we Jews any better off? Not at all! For we have already accused everyone, both Jews and Greeks, of being under the power of sin.

do not boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Do not act out of selfish ambition or conceit, but with humility think of others as being better than yourselves.

Being bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to slander glorious beings. Yet even angels, although they are greater in strength and power, do not bring a slanderous accusation against them from the Lord.