For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with you. For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.

saying, "Go to this people and say: Hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and not perceive.

For the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with their ears dully; and they closed their eyes; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

about His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was made of the seed of David according to the flesh,

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to you for the establishing of you.

For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Therefore it is of faith so that it might be according to grace; for the promise to be made sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

For he who beyond hope believed on hope for him to become the father of many nations (according to that which was spoken, "So your seed shall be").

but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.

For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope for it?

But if we hope for that which we do not see, then we wait for it with patience.

nor because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children. But, "In Isaac shall your Seed be called."

That is, not the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for a seed.

And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah."

But Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek Me, I became known to those who did not ask after Me."

I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

"Lord, they killed Your prophets and dug down Your altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

Let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and their back always bowing."

but as it is written, "To whom nothing was said about Him, they shall see. And they who have not heard shall understand."

whenever I may go into Spain, I will come to you. For in traveling through I hope to see you, and to be set forward there by you, if first I may be filled of you in part.

For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom;

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.

But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

Let no one seek his own, but each one another's.

does not behave indecently, does not seek her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also am fully known.

Even so you, since you are zealots of spiritual things, seek to build up the church, in order that you may abound

So then, brothers, seek to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in languages.

and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the Twelve.

Afterward He was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain until this present day, but also some fell asleep.

Afterward He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

And last of all He was seen by me also, as one born out of time.

For I do not desire to see you now in passage, but I am hoping to stay some time with you, if the Lord permits.

But if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he works the work of the Lord, even as I do.

See that you also submit to such ones, and to everyone working and laboring with me.

we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are not lasting, but the things which are not seen are everlasting.

For even if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret; if indeed I did regret; for I see that that letter grieved you for an hour.

Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness

so that I might not seem to terrify you by letters.

Are they Hebrews? I also! Are they Israelites? I also! Are they the seed of Abraham? I also!

For if I desire to boast, I shall not be foolish. For I will speak the truth. But I spare, lest anyone should think of me as being beyond what he sees me, or hears of me;

Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me (who is not weak toward you, but is powerful in you;

For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we also were found to be sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Let it not be said!

And to Abraham and to his Seed the promises were spoken. It does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, "And to your Seed," which is Christ.

Why then the Law? It was added because of transgressions, until the Seed should come to those to whom it had been promised, being ordained through angels in the Mediator's hand.

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.

See in what large letters I write to you with my hand.

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

For all seek their own, not the things which are of Jesus Christ.

Therefore I hope to send him presently, as soon as I shall see the things about me.

Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.

For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

Let no one defraud you, delighting in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, without a cause being vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be so with heaviness, as apostles of Christ.

But, my brothers, when we were taken away from you for an hour's time (in presence, not in heart), more abundantly we were eager with much desire to see your face.

But now when Timothy came from you to us and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us (as we also you),

night and day praying exceedingly for me to see your face and to perfect the things lacking in your faith?

See that none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among nations, believed on in the world, and received up into glory.

who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel,

You subjected all things under his feet." For in subjecting all things to Him, He did not leave anything not subjected to Him. But now we do not see all things having been subjected to him.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He by the grace of God should taste death for all.

For truly He did not take the nature of angels, but He took hold of the seed of Abraham.

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Therefore, a promise being left to enter into His rest, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it.

who serve the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For, He says "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mountain."

From which we see that neither was the first covenant dedicated without blood.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.

By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

By faith Noah, having been warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised to be faithful.

These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For they who say such things declare plainly that they seek a fatherland.

of whom it was said that in Isaac your Seed shall be called,

Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord;

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,

For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Know that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.

Do you see how faith worked with his works, and from the works faith was made complete?

You see then how a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

Behold, we count blessed those who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity and of tender mercy.

whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified,

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and abiding forever.

For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.