Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny.

The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a feast when his son was married,

And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.

Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband.

His form was shining like the light, and his clothing was white as snow:

And they were full of wonder at his teaching, because he gave it as one having authority, and not like the scribes.

And he got up, and straight away took up the bed and went out before them all, so that they were all full of wonder, and gave glory to God, saying, We have never seen anything like this.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,

But others said, It is Elijah. And others said, It is a prophet, even like one of the prophets.

And he got out, and saw a great mass of people, and he had pity on them, because they were like sheep without a keeper: and he gave them teaching about a number of things.

And looking up, he said, I see men; I see them like trees, walking.

And Jesus questioning the father said, How long has he been like this? And he said, From a child.

And after crying out and shaking him violently, it came out: and the child became like one dead; so that most of them said, He is dead.

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

When they come back from the dead, they do not get married, but are like the angels in heaven.

The disciple is not greater than his master, but everyone whose learning is complete will be like his master.

Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.

What comparison am I to make of the men of this generation? what are they like?

They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.

Go on your way: see, I send you out like lambs among wolves.

And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.

A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.

Give thought to the flowers: they do no work, they make no thread; and still I say to you, Even Solomon, in all his glory, was not clothed like one of these.

And be like men who are looking for their lord, when he comes back from the bride-feast; so that when he comes to the door, it will be open to him quickly.

Then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? what comparison may I make of it?

It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

And again he said, What is the kingdom of God like?

It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.

I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants.

The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

But let it not be so with you; but he who is greater, let him become like the younger; and he who is chief, like a servant.

So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.

And John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and resting on him.

This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man.

Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?

You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.

Some said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he.

If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rushing of a violent wind, and all the house where they were was full of it.

And they saw tongues, like flames of fire, coming to rest on every one of them.

For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you.

And all those who were in the Sanhedrin, looking at him, saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound:

And he saw the heavens opening, and a vessel coming down, like a great cloth let down on the earth,

I was in the town of Joppa, at prayer: and falling into a deep sleep, I saw in a vision a vessel like a great cloth let down from heaven, and it came down to me:

If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

And when Paul had put his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they had the power of talking in tongues, and acting like prophets.

And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.

But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.

And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?

Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.

But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.

Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.

Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.

For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

And are not like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel might not see clearly to the end of the present order of things:

For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.

I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.

But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?

Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;

But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;

And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

For I have no man of like mind who will truly have care for you.

That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;

Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,

Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:

In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.

And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;

They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.

And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil;

Being without father or mother, or family, having no birth or end to his life, being made like the Son of God, is a priest for ever.

And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,

Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.

Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.