Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

I have a request to make for them. I make no request for the world, but only for those whom you have given me, for they are yours??10 all that is mine is yours and what is yours is mine??nd they have done me honor.

"It is not for them only that I make this request. It is also for those who through their message come to believe in me.

Father, I wish to have those whom you have given me with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me, for you loved me before the creation of the world.

This was to fulfil the saying he had uttered, "I have not lost one of those whom you have given me."

Why do you question me? Ask those who have heard me what it was that I said to them. They will know what I have said."

Jesus said to him, "Is it because you have seen me that you believe? Blessed be those who believe without having seen me!"

So those who were present asked him, "Master, is this the time when you are going to re-establish the kingdom for Israel?"

Even on my slaves, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, And they will become prophets.

for the promise of it belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those far away whom the Lord our God calls to him."

But many of those who had heard what they said believed it, and their number grew to be about five thousand.

Even from the towns around Jerusalem crowds would come in bringing sick people and those who were troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.

We and the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him are witnesses to these things."

In those days, as the number of the disciples was increasing, complaints were made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

At those words Moses fled, and went and lived for a time in Midian, and two sons were born to him there.

They even made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held a celebration over what their own hands had made.

So God turned his back on them and left them to worship the starry host, just as the Book of the Prophets says, " 'Was it victims and sacrifices that you offered to me, O house of Israel, Those forty years in the desert?

Those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.

Brothers! Descendants of the house of Abraham, and those others among you who reverence God! It is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

and for many days he appeared to those who had come up to Jerusalem with him from Galilee, and they are now witnesses for him to the people.

In my opinion, therefore, we ought not to put obstacles in the way of those of the heathen who are turning to God,

After they had stayed some time, the brothers let them go, with a greeting to those who had sent them.

The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

He had discussions at the synagogue with the Jews and those who worshiped with them, and every day in the public square with any whom he happened to find.

While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent,

As he wanted to cross to Greece, the brothers wrote to the disciples there, urging them to welcome him. On his arrival there he was of great service to those who through God's favor had become believers,

After traveling through those districts and giving the people a great deal of encouragement, he went on to Greece

Now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of his favor, which will build you up and give you a place among those whom God has consecrated.

I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

And I said, 'Lord, they know that I used to go through one synagogue after another, and to imprison and flog those who believed in you,

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'

Then the king rose, with the governor and Bernice and those who had sat with them,

including you who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ??7 to all those in Rome whom God loves, who are called to be his people; God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.

We know that God's judgment rightfully falls upon those who do such things as these.

And do you suppose, when you sit in judgment upon those who do such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life,

Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.

For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.

So David himself says of the happiness of those to whom God credits uprightness without any reference to their actions,

Does this happiness apply to those who are circumcised, or to those who are uncircumcised as well? What we say is, Abraham's faith was credited to him as uprightness.

and the forefather of those circumcised persons who not only share his circumcision but follow our forefather Abraham's example in the faith he had before he was circumcised.

That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us;

Still death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned as Adam had, in the face of an express command. So Adam foreshadowed the one who was to come.

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

Those who are physical cannot please God.

We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.

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;

and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies.

Who can bring any accusation against those whom God has chosen? God pronounces them upright;

And how are men to preach unless they are sent to do it? As the Scripture says, "How welcome is the coming of those who bring good news!"

What follows? Israel failed to get what it sought, but those whom God selected got it.

Observe then the goodness and the severity of God??everity to those who have fallen, but goodness to you, provided you abide by his goodness, for otherwise, you in your turn will be pruned away.

Those others too, if they do not cling to their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

for God does not change his mind about those to whom he gives his blessings or sends his call.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

so that anyone who resists the authorities sets himself in opposition to what God has ordained, and those who oppose him will bring down judgment upon themselves.

It is the duty of us who are strong to put up with the weaknesses of those who are immature, and not just suit ourselves.

Christ did not please himself, but as the Scripture says, "The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me."

Pray that I may escape from those in Judea who are disobedient, and that the help I am taking to Jerusalem may be well received by God's people,

Remember me to that veteran Christian, Apelles. Remember me to those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

Remember me to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, those hard workers in the Lord's cause. Remember me to my dear Persis, who has worked so hard for the Lord,

I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.

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;

For to those who are on the way to destruction, the story of the cross is nonsense, but to us who are to be saved, it means all the power of God.

For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.

but to those whom God has called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not your part to judge those who are inside the church,

and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

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.

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

and those who mourn as though they did not mourn, and those who are glad as though they were not glad, and those who buy anything as though they did not own it,

and those who mix in the world, as though they were not absorbed in it. For the present shape of the world is passing away.

My answer to those who want to investigate me is this:

Do you not know that those who do the work about the Temple get their living from the Temple, and those who attend to the altar divide the sacrifices with the altar?

In just that way the Lord directed that those who preach the good news should get their living from it.

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.

Think of the Israelites' practices. Do not those who eat what is sacrificed have divine fellowship at the sacrificial altar?

Doubtless there must be parties among you, if those who are right are to be recognized among you.

Have you no houses to eat and drink in? Or do you mean to show your contempt for the church of God, and to humiliate those who have none? What can I say to you? Can I approve of you? Not in this matter certainly.

So this ecstatic speaking is meant as a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers, but inspired preaching is a sign not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

Yes, and those who have fallen asleep in trust in Christ have perished.

But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him.

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,

But if anyone has hurt anybody's feelings, it is not so much mine, as yours, or at least those of some of you, not to be too hard upon you all.

Yes, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, diffused among those who are being saved, and those who are perishing alike;

If the meaning of my preaching of the good news is veiled at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.

and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

And I shall go on doing as I do, so as to cut the ground from under those who want to make out that in their boasted apostleship they work on the same terms that I do.

Those who have kept on in their old sins and all the rest I have warned, and I warn them now while I am still away, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will spare nobody??3 since you demand proof that Christ really speaks through me. He is not weak in dealing with you. On the contrary, right among you he exhibits his power.

or going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

Those who were regarded as the leaders??hat they once were makes no difference to me; God takes no account of external differences??he leaders contributed nothing new to me.

But the Scripture describes all mankind as the prisoners of sin, so that the promised blessing might on the ground of faith in Jesus Christ be given to those who have faith.

to ransom those who were subject to law, so that we might receive adoption.