So you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of His family;

'For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel in those days,' says the Lord; 'I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. And nevermore will each one need to teach his fellow-citizen,

Timothy, my fellow-worker, wishes to be remembered to you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater too, my fellow-countrymen.

But I think it proper now to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow-laborer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger to minister to my needs,

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed hogs.

Paul answered, "I am a Jew from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. Please let me speak to the people."

When the captain heard that, he went to the colonel and reported it. Then he asked him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen."

So the colonel came to Paul and asked, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" He answered, "Yes."

Then the colonel said, "I paid a large sum for this citizenship of mine." Paul said, "But I was born a citizen."

So the men who were going to examine him left him at once, and the colonel himself was frightened when he learned that he was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.

This man had been seized by the Jews and they were on the point of killing him when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, because I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and my brother Timothy, to our dearly loved fellow-worker Philemon,

to our sister Apphia, to our fellow-soldier Archippus, and to the church that meets at your house:

Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in the cause of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you.

So do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow-workers.

For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have shown His name in the service you have rendered for your fellow-Christians, and still are doing.

Then a white robe was given to each of them, and they were told to keep quiet a little while longer, until the number of their fellow-slaves and brothers, who were killed as they had been, was complete.

"But that slave went out and found one of his fellow-slaves who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, demanding, 'Pay me what you owe me!'

"And his fellow-slave fell down before him and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'

"When his fellow-slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly troubled, and went and reported all that happened to their master.

Ought you not to have shown mercy to your fellow-slave, as I too had done for you?'

Then I fell before his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must take care not to do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who hold to the testimony borne by Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony borne by Jesus is the inspiring spirit of prophecy."

But he said to me: "You must be careful not to do that; I am only a fellow-slave of yours, of your brothers the prophets, and of the people who practice the truths contained in this book. Worship God."

and begins to beat his fellow-slaves, and keeps on eating and drinking with those who get drunk,

Then he went out into the gateway, and another waiting girl saw him, and said to those there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene."

And the waiting girl saw him there and began again to tell the bystanders, "This fellow is one of them!"

But the scribes and the Pharisees began to argue, saying, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the lowest place, so that when your host comes in, he may say to you, 'My friend, come up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow-guests.

But one of the fellow-guests heard this, and said to Him, "Happy will be the man who is fortunate enough to be at the feast in the kingdom of God."

and say, 'This fellow started to erect a building but could not complete it!'

And so the Pharisees and scribes continually grumbled, and said, "This fellow is welcoming notorious sinners, and even eating with them."

A servant girl saw him sitting by the fire and fixed her eyes on him and said, "This fellow was with Him too."

Here they began to make the following charges against Him: "We have found this fellow corrupting our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar and claiming to be a king himself."

But they all together began to shout, "Away with this fellow, but let us have Barabbas released!

We do know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

Then Thomas the Twin said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go too, and die with Him."

"Fellow Israelites, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you yourselves well know, a man accredited to you by God through mighty deeds and wonders and wonder-works which God performed through Him right here among you,

When Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Fellow Israelites, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you keep staring at us, as though we had by our own power or piety made this man walk?

then he said to them: "Fellow Israelites, take care as to what you are about to do to these men.

His fellow-travelers stood speechless, for they heard the voice but could not see anyone.

Then Paul got up and motioned with his hand and said: "Fellow Israelites, and you who reverence God, listen!

and said, "This fellow is inducing people to worship God in ways that violate our laws."

So then, if Demetrius and his fellow-workmen have a charge against anybody, there are the courts and the judges; let them go to law.

They listened to him until he said this, and then all at once they shouted, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is certainly not fit to live!"

and on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, flash around me and my fellow-travelers.

and if children, then also heirs, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ if in reality we share His sufferings, so that we may share His glory too.

if I can make my fellow-countrymen jealous, and so save some of them.

Remember me to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in the work of Christ Jesus,

Remember me to Andronicus and Junias, my fellow-country-men, who also served in prison with me; they are held in high esteem among the apostles, and became Christians before I did.

Remember me to Urbanus, my fellow-worker in the work of Christ, and to my dear friend Stachys.

Remember me to Herodion, my fellow-countryman. Remember me to the Christian members of Narcissus' family.

I, Tertius, who write this letter, wish to be remembered to you as a fellow-Christian.

for we belong to God as His fellow-workers; you belong to God as His field to be tilled, as His building to be built.

As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.

that the heathen through union with Christ Jesus are fellow-heirs with the Jews, are members with them of the same body, and sharers with them of the promise through the good news,

And I solemnly beg you, my true comrade, keep on cooperating with those two women, because they shared with me the struggle in spreading the good news, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow-slave. As a faithful minister of Christ for me

My dearly loved Tychicus, a faithful minister and my fellow-servant in the Lord's work, will tell you all about me.

Aristarchus, my fellow-prisoner, wishes to be remembered to you; and so does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas; if he comes to see you, give him a hearty welcome.

So does Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only converts from Judaism that are fellow-workers with me here for the kingdom of God, who have proved a real comfort to me.

For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you too have suffered the same sort of ill-treatment at the hands of your fellow-countrymen as they did at the hands of the Jews,

to the festal gathering and assembly of God's firstborn sons enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a Judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men who have attained perfection,

He answered, "Yes." When Jesus reached home -- He got there ahead of Simon -- He asked him, "What do you think about it, Simon? From whom do civil rulers collect duties or taxes, from their own citizens or from aliens?"

He answered, "From aliens." Jesus said to him, "So their own citizens are exempt,

But his citizens continued to hate him, and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man to become king over us.'

But Paul said to them, "They beat us in public and that without a trial, and put us in jail although we are Roman citizens! Let them come here themselves and take us out!"

The policemen reported this message to the chiefs of the police court, and they became alarmed when they heard that they were Roman citizens,

So the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came with splendid pomp and went into the audience-room, attended by the colonels and the leading citizens of the town, and at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

"But to what can I compare the leaders of this age? They are like little children sitting in the market places and calling to their fellows in the game,