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The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

Verse ConceptsLearningAmazement, Of Jesus ChristMarvellingPeople With KnowledgeEducationSchooltrainingsurprises

"If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

Verse ConceptsInconsistencyCircumcision, physicalMoses, Significance OfAngry With ChristFulfilling The LawJesus HealingThe Sabbath And ChristJesus Healing On Sabbath

So they asked him, "How then were your eyes opened?"

so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see."

and questioned them. "Is this your son," they said, "who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

Verse ConceptsFrom BirthIs It Really?

"but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who has opened his eyes. Ask him, himself. He is of age. He will speak for himself."

Verse ConceptsAskingNot Knowing How

"What was it he did to you?" they asked him; "How did he open your eyes?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do They Do?

Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

Verse ConceptsPeople WaitingPlainnessBefore God ActsWho Is Jesus?

"We do not know where you are going Lord," said Thomas, "so how can we know the way?"

Verse ConceptsKnowing God's WaysNot Knowing About ChristWhere To?

"How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?"

Verse ConceptsApostles, DescriptionMaking Christ Known

"Then how is it that each one of us hears them speak his own mother tongue?

Verse ConceptsLanguagespeaking

"Rulers and elders of the people, if we are being examined today concerning a benefit conferred upon a cripple, as to how has this man been cured,

Verse ConceptsActs of KindnessKindnessHow Healing Came

"While it remained unsold, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was not the price at your own disposal? How could you conceive this act in your heart? You have not lied unto men, but unto God."

Verse ConceptsCommunismGod Hating LyingAuthorityGod Hates Lying

"(Now he supposed that his brothers would understand how God by his hand was bringing them deliverance; but they did not.)

Verse ConceptsDo You Understand?Individuals Saving OthersNot Understanding God's Thingsdeliverance

The eunuch answered, "Why, how can I unless someone shall show me the way?" And he begged Philip to get up and sit with him.

Verse ConceptsTeachableness

"But, Lord," said Ananias, "I have heard from many about that man, and how much evil he did to the saints at Jerusalem!

Verse ConceptsSaintsPeople Actually Doing Evil

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and told them how Saul had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him; and also how he had preached the Name of the Lord Jesus boldly at Damascus.

Verse ConceptsBarnabasConfidence In God, Produces BoldnessImportunity, Towards PeopleAcceptance, Of One AnotherBoldness Examples OfSeeing The Risen ChristThe Gospel PreachedSpeaking In Christ's NameThe Apostles In ActionBoldnessdamascus

"Then he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying. "'Send to Joppa and fetch Simon who is also called Peter.

Verse ConceptsAngels, as God's messengers

"Then I remembered the words of the Lord, how he used to say, "John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

Verse ConceptsBaptism Of The Holy SpiritJohn's BaptismBaptism, practice ofPromises Of The Holy SpiritWater For BaptismRemembering ChristBaptism

He motioned to them to keep quiet, and told them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Tell all this to James," he said, "and to the brothers," and away he went to another place.

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The ChristianGod Freeing CaptivesTelling Of God

"how that God fulfilled it for us their children in raising up Jesus; as it is also written in the second Psalm, "Thou art my son, today have I become thy Father.

Verse ConceptsResurrection Of Christ, Necessary ForChrist's Relationship To GodJesus Christ, Son Of GodGod Raising ChristSecond ThingRaising Children

On their arrival they assembled the church and reported all things that God had done through them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

Verse ConceptsAccess To God, The Characteristics OfFaith, Origins OfAssemblyevangelism, motivation forDoorsGod, Unity OfChurch GatheringsForeigners Saved By FaithGod's Deed RevealedFaith Kjv

and after there had been a long discussion, Peter rose and said: "Brothers, you know how a good while ago God made choice among you, that from my lips the Gentiles were to hear the message of the gospel and believe.

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofevangelists, ministry ofHeraldLipsDissensionDisputesMissionary ExamplesThe Gentiles ConversionPreaching Gospel To ForeignersForeigners Saved By FaithChosen DisciplesSpeaking With The Mouth

"Brothers, listen to me. Symeon has told how God first looked graciously upon the Gentiles, to take out from among them a people to be called by his name.

Verse ConceptsFirst Among The GentilesOther References To God's Name

And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let is go back and visit the brothers in every city in which we have proclaimed the word of the Lord. Let us see how they fare."

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineConverts To ChristianityMissionariesChristians Being Called Brothers

and when they arrived, he said to them. "You yourselves know quite well, how I lived among you, from the first day that I set foot in Asia,

Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceMannersFirst Among The GentilesPeople With General Knowledge

"You yourselves know how these hands of mine provided for my needs, and those of my companions.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Remedies ForIndustryActing For Oneselfprovidingministering

And they, when they heard it, glorified God, and said to him. "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews, of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law.

Verse ConceptsZealMany In The ChurchSalvation For IsraelSpecific Praising Of GodTaking The Law To Heartzealots

I was perplexed how to investigate such questions, and asked Paul whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.

Verse ConceptsPuzzlementCourt Sessions

"They know me of old, if they are willing to testify, how that according to the strict sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleHeresiesJudaismSectsStrictness

"how that the Christ must suffer, and how he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should bring a message of light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

Verse ConceptsLight, SpiritualResurrection, Of BelieversPreaching Gospel To ForeignersChrist The BeginningThe Light Of ChristChrist Would RiseThe Gospel To Jew And GentileLight As A Symbol Of Salvation

Be it far from us; for in that case how could God judge the world?

Verse ConceptsFar Be It!Judging Others Actions

How then was it imputed to him? When he was circumcised? or uncircumcised? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

Verse ConceptsRighteousness imputed

No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsBehaviourSelf DenialDead To SinContinuing In SinFar Be It!

How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

Verse ConceptsNot Believing The GospelDoubting GodUnhearingpreachingCall To Action

God did not cast off his people whom he foreknew. For do you not know what is said in the Scripture about Elijah? how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingForeknowledgeCastawaysGod's ForeknowledgeGod Not ForsakingIsrael HardenedScripture Says

Now if their stumbling enriches the world, and their loss enriches the Gentiles, how much more must their fulness do!

Verse ConceptsGrowth Of The ChurchFullness Of The KingdomIsrael HardenedDefeat Of God's People

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a mere wild olive tree, and have been grafted, contrary to nature, into a fruitful olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be regrafted into their own olive tree?

Verse ConceptsOlivesParticipation, In ChristTreesCutting Off BranchesJoined To The ChurchOlive Treescutting

Do you not know that we are to try angels? How much more, then, the affairs of life.

Verse ConceptsHeaven And Serving GodBelievers JudgingAngelsJudgingJudgement DayJudgement

For I would not have you ignorant, brothers, how our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

Verse ConceptsClouds, Figurative UsePassing ThroughA Way Through The Red Seaignorance

For I passed on to you the account, which I myself received from the Lord; how the Lord Jesus, on the very night he was betrayed, took bread,

Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsTraditionsLord's SupperBetrayal, Of ChristHanding Over ChristBreadNever Giving Up

For if lifeless instruments such as the flute or the harp give no distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is fluted or harped?

Verse ConceptsFlutesHarpsIgnorant Of FactsBeing Differentinstruments

In the same way with you, if you utter unintelligible words with your tongue, how can what you say be understood? You will be speaking to the winds!

Verse ConceptsMaking The Message ClearMere TalkIgnorant Of FactsLanguageThe TonguespeakingSpeech

For if you in your spirit bless God, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned say the Amen to your thanksgiving, when he does not know what you are talking about?

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Before GodAmenNot Understanding Sayings

If then, we are preaching Christ, that he rose from the dead, how are some of you saying that there is no resurrection from the dead?

Verse ConceptsResurrection, Of The DeadPreaching ChristAre The Dead Raised?Christ Would Rise

But some one will ask. "How are the dead raised? and with what body are they coming?"

Verse ConceptsOur Resurrection

Now, brothers, I want you to know about the troubles which befell me in Asia; how I was burdened altogether beyond my strength, so that I renounced all hope even of life itself.

Verse ConceptsAgony, DescriptionEnjoyment, Lack OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceDepression, CausesProvincesHeavy BurdensLife DespisedAfflictionsAnxiety And StressDespairHardshipBeing Overwhelmedignoranceexperiencepressureoverwhelmed

If, however, the administration of death, written with letters and engraved on stones, began in glory, so that the children of Israel could not gaze steadily on the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face?? glory even then fading??8 how much more shall the ministry of the Spirit abide in glory?

Verse ConceptsShining FacesMinistry, Nature OfMoses, Significance OfSpiritually DeadLight Of God's PeopleengravingGod Bestowing GloryMinistry

for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

Verse ConceptsEnthusiasmAttitudes, to other peopleReadinessProvokingFervourZealousness, Examples OfPaul's BoastingPeople Willing

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;

Verse ConceptsPaul, Life OfZeal, Without KnowledgeDestruction Of The ChurchThe Church UniversalChurch Of GodPersecutionchristianitypasttrying

and how in my zeal for Judaism I outstripped many of my own age and nation, in my special zeal for the traditions of my forefathers.

Verse ConceptsLegalismPharisees, Beliefs OfNew Age BeliefsResolving Conflictzealotscredibility

Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingElementsConfusionUseless ThingsUniquenessElements Of The UniverseGod Knowing His PeopleSubject To EvilWorry And StressIdentityWeaknessKnowing GodIdentity In Christ

How I wish I could be with you now, that I might change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingPuzzlementIn Men's PresenceBeing Different

You have heard how by direct revelation the secret truth was made known to me, as I have already briefly written you.

Verse ConceptsGod Revealing MysteriesConcisenessWriting Letters

But that you also may know my affairs and how I do, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make everything known to you.

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Qualifications ForThings RevealedChristians Are Called Servants Of Christ

And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.

Verse ConceptsOptimismChildren In The FaithSelf WorthSpreading The GospelWorthHard Work And Perseverancepartnership

So I hope to send him, as soon as ever I see how it will go with me;

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConfidenceHope Regarding Believers

I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want.

Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Support ForSecrecyAbaseHelp In ShortageAbasementBeing HumbleBeing ContentAbundanceFeeding The Poorhungerhumbleexperiencefreemasonry

For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For The ChurchConverts To ChristianityNot Seeing PeopleUnseenstruggleConflictStruggles

I have sent him with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, one of your own number, for this very purpose, to let you know how I am, and to cheer your hearts.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofPeople Encouraging Others

Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Godethics, incentives towardsAskingPleasing GodWatchfulness, Of LeadersBeing DevoutAbounding, Good ThingsGrowth In GraceLast WordsEncouraging One AnotherEncouraging Othersencouraginguplifting

For you know well how you must imitate me. For I did not lead an idle or disorderly life among you;

Verse Conceptsdiscipleship, nature ofImitatingLaborImitating Good People

The Lord grant him to find mercy form the Lord in that Day! And you know better than I how many services he rendered in Ephesus.

Verse ConceptsMercy, Of Jesus ChristGod Will Show MercyPurgatoryministering

as well as the persecutions and sufferings which befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know all the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all!

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Through Jesus ChristAfflictions, In Christian LivingDeliverance, Types OfRescuePersecution Of The Apostle PaulPersecution

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a brother beloved; especially dear to me, but how much more to you, both as a man and a fellow Christian.

Verse ConceptsSibling Love

For if the word uttered through angels stood firm, so that every transgression and act of disobedience met with its just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsDisobedience, To GodThe Recompense Of The WickedAngels Giving The LawGod Has RequitedAngels As MediatorsAngels Activities Among Believers