He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' "

They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

I was at a loss as to how to investigate such matters, and I asked him if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried on these charges there.

"I should like to hear the man myself," Agrippa said to Festus. "You shall hear him tomorrow," Festus answered.

Their throats are like open graves, They use their tongues to deceive; The venom of asps is behind their lips,

It is just like the way in which through one man sin came into the world, and death followed sin, and so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,

For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."

On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?"

As Isaiah foretold, "If the Lord of Hosts had not left us children, We would have been like Sodom, and have resembled Gomorrah!"

Treat people who are overscrupulous in their faith like brothers; do not criticize their views.

Therefore, treat one another like brothers, in God's honor, just as Christ has treated you.

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

Like an expert builder, I laid a foundation, as God commissioned me to do, and now someone else is building upon it. But let everyone be careful how he does so.

For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men.

when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

A wife cannot do as she likes with her own person; it is her husband's; and in the same way a husband cannot do as he likes with his own person; it is his wife's.

I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another.

But if you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

Have we not a right to take a Christian wife about with us, like the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?

To the Jews I have become like a Jew, to win Jews over; to men under the Law I have become like a man under the Law, though I am not myself under the Law, so as to win over those who are under the Law.

To those who have no law I have become like a man without any law??hough I am not without the law of God, but under the law of Christ??o as to win over those who are without any law.

You must not become idolaters, like some of them, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."

Let us not practice immorality, like some of them, twenty-three thousand of whom fell dead in one day,

For just as woman was made from man, man is born of woman, and both like everything else really come from God.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside my childish ways.

Even inanimate things, like the flute or the harp, may produce sound, but if there is no difference in the notes, how can you tell what is being played?

Those who are of the earth are like him who was of the earth, and those who are of heaven are like him who is from heaven,

and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven.

Be on the watch. Stand firm in your faith. Act like men. Show yourselves strong.

Was it vacillating of me to want to do that? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say "Yes" and "No" in the same breath?

For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.

Am I falling into self-recommendation again? Do I, like some people, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?

not like Moses, who used to wear a veil over his face, to keep the Israelites from gazing at the fading of the splendor from it.

never free from the danger of being put to death like Jesus, so that in my body the life of Jesus also may be seen.

sure that he who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise me also like Jesus, and bring me side by side with you into his presence.

So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.

So I have thought it necessary to ask these brothers to go on to you ahead of me, to arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so as to have it ready, like an expression of your good will, not of your avarice.

I repeat, no one should think me a fool, but if you do, show me at least the patience you would show a fool, and let me have my little boast like the others.

For you like to put up with fools, you are so wise yourselves!

If they are Christian workers?? am talking like a madman!?? am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death.

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, right before them all, "If you live like a heathen, and not like a Jew, though you are a Jew yourself, why should you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

and yet what must have tried you in my physical condition, you did not scorn and despise, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

Now we, brothers, are like Isaac, children born in fulfilment of the promise.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

and how surpassingly great his power is for us who believe; like the mighty strength

We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

So follow God's example, like his dear children,

For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

Be very careful, then, about the way you live. Do not act thoughtlessly, but like sensible men,

not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but like slaves of Christ, carrying out the will of God.

but laid it aside to take on the nature of a slave and become like other men.

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

For I have no one like him who would take such a real interest in you.

But you know his character, and how like a son helping his father he has worked like a slave with me in preaching the good news.

So give him a hearty Christian welcome, and value men like him very highly,

For there are many who live, as I have often told you, and tell you now with tears, like enemies of the cross of Christ.

You have paid me in full, and more too. I am fully supplied with what I have received from you through Epaphroditus. It is like fragrant incense, just such a sacrifice as God welcomes and approves.

If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.

We were children when we were with you; we were like a mother nursing her children.

You know how, like a father with his children, we used to urge, encourage, and implore you

May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,

not to gratify his passion, like the heathen who know nothing of God.

for you yourselves know perfectly well that the Day of the Lord is to come like a thief in the night.

When people say, "What peace and security!" then suddenly destruction will be upon them, like birth-pains upon a woman about to give birth to a child, and there will be no escape.

But you are not in darkness, brothers, so that that Day should surprise you like thieves.

So we must not sleep like other men, but we must be vigilant and composed.

May the Lord guide your hearts into a sense of God's love and into a steadfastness like Christ's.

They would like to be teachers of law although they do not understand the words they use or the matters they insist upon.

like Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I turned over to Satan, to be taught not to blaspheme.

Never reprove an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men like brothers,

older women like mothers, younger ones like sisters, with absolute purity.

I thank God, whom I, like my forefathers, worship with a clear conscience, when I remember you, as I constantly do, in my prayers.

Share my hardships like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

and their teaching spreads like a cancer; men like Hymenaeus and Philetus,

and now that I send him back to you, it is like sending my very heart.

I would have liked to keep him with me, to wait on me in your place while I am in prison for the good news,

They will perish, but you continue! And they will all wear out like a coat,

And you will fold them up like a mantle, And change them as one changes his coat. But you are always the same, and your years will have no end!"

Therefore since these children referred to have the same mortal nature, Jesus also shared it, like them, in order that by his death he might dethrone the lord of death, the devil,

And so he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might prove a compassionate high priest as well as one faithful in his service to God, in order to forgive the people's sins.

This hope is like an anchor for our souls. It reaches up secure and strong into the sanctuary behind the heavenly curtain,

to whom Abraham apportioned one tenth of all the spoil, who is first, as his name shows, king of righteousness and then king of Salem, which means king of peace??3 with no father or mother or ancestry, and with no beginning to his days nor end to his life, but like no one but the Son of God, continues as priest forever.

Those of the descendants of Levi who are appointed to the priesthood are directed by the Law to collect tithes from the people, that is, from their own brothers, although they are descended from Abraham like themselves.

Further, if he were still on earth, he would not be a priest at all, for there are priests enough provided to offer the gifts the Law prescribes??5 though the service they engage in is only a shadow and imitation of that in heaven. For when Moses was going to make the tent of worship he was warned, "Be sure to make it all just like the pattern you were shown on the mountain."

Not like the one that I made with their forefathers, On the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt, For they would not abide by their agreement with me, So I paid no attention to them,' says the Lord.

Nor does he go in to offer himself over and over again, like the high priest who enters the sanctuary year after year, taking with him blood that is not his own,

And so from one man, for any prospect of descendants as good as dead, there sprang a people in number like the stars in the heavens or the countless sands on the seashore.

Be careful that no one fails to gain God's favor, or some poisonous root may come up to trouble and contaminate you all??16 some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his very birthright for one single meal.

But he must ask with faith, and without any doubt, for the man who doubts is like the billowing sea, driven and blown about by the wind.

Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord??8 an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.

but one who is rich ought to rejoice at being reduced in circumstances, for the rich will disappear like the wild flowers.

For anyone who merely listens to the message without obeying it is like a man who looks in a mirror at the face that nature gave him,

and then goes off and immediately forgets what he looked like.

You must talk and act like men who expect to be judged by the law that treats men as free.

Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like.