for this is the reason why you pay your taxes, for the civil authorities are God's official servants faithfully devoting themselves to this very end.

For Christ died and lived again for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

who once risked their very necks for my life. I am so thankful to them; not only I but also all the churches among the heathen thank them.

and to the very end He will guarantee that you are vindicated at the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

As for me, myself, it is of very little concern to me to be examined by you or any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.

To this very hour we have gone hungry, thirsty, poorly clad; we have been roughly knocked around; we have had no home.

When we are slandered by them, we try to conciliate them. To this very hour we have been made the filth of the world, the scum of the universe!

So if you have the ordinary cases of life for settlement, do you set up as judges the very men in the church who have no standing?

Brothers, each one must continue close to God in the very station in which he was called.

Yes, I felt within my very self the sentence of death, to keep me from depending on myself instead of God who raises the dead.

For if I make you sad, who is there to make me glad but the very man who has been made sad by me?

This is the very thing I wrote you, that when I did come I might not be made sad by the very people who ought to make me glad, for I had confidence in you all that my gladness would be gladness to you all.

The man that you forgive I too forgive. For if I have forgiven him anything, it is what I have forgiven him in the very presence of Christ for your sake,

Indeed, to this very day, whenever Moses is read, a veil hangs over their hearts,

For see what this very sorrow, suffered in accordance with the will of God, has done for you! How earnest it has made you, how concerned to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how much it made you long to see me, how loyal to me, how determined to punish the offender! At every point you have cleared yourselves in the matter.

For I am not overstepping my authority as though I should not reach you, for I was the very first to reach as far as you with the good news of Christ.

I actually begged Titus to go, and sent the well-known brother with him. Titus did not make any money out of you, did he? Did not he and I act in the same spirit, and take the very same steps?

Are you thinking all this time that I am defending myself to you? It is in the very presence of God and as one who is in union with Christ that I am speaking. And it is all for building you up, beloved, for I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, when I come I shall find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me.

Only they wanted us to remember the poor; the very thing that I was eager to do.

O senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was pictured as the crucified One?

Where is your self-congratulation? For I can testify that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and have given them to me.

Brothers, if anybody is caught in the very act of doing wrong, you who are spiritual, in the spirit of gentleness, must set him right; each of you continuing to think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

Indeed, the very men who let themselves be circumcised do not themselves observe the law. But they simply want you to let yourselves be circumcised, so that they can boast of you as members of their party.

yes, on me, the very least of all His people, this unmerited favor was bestowed -- that I might preach as good news to the heathen the boundless riches of Christ,

The very One that went down has gone up, too, far above all the heavens, to fill the universe.

Stop letting anyone deceive you with groundless arguments about these things, for it is because of these very sins that God's anger comes down upon the disobedient.

So you must be very careful how you live, not thoughtlessly but thoughtfully,

that is the very reason I am sending him, to let you know how I am and to cheer your hearts.

For I am certain of this very thing, that He who began the good work in you will go on until the day of Jesus Christ to complete it.

And yet for your sakes it is very necessary for me to stay on here.

I very eagerly send him, so that when you see him you may be glad of it, and I may be less sorrowful.

I was made very happy as a Christian to have your interest in my welfare revived again after so long; because you have always had the interest but not the opportunity to show it.

he is the very one who told me of the love awakened in you by the Spirit.

It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming.

Because we were yearning for you so tenderly, we were willing, not only to share with you God's good news, but to lay down our very lives too for you, all because you were so dearly loved by us.

this is the very reason, namely, through your faith, brothers, that I have been encouraged about you, in spite of all my distresses and crushing difficulties,

Yet, mercy was shown me for the very purpose that in my case as the foremost of sinners Jesus might display His perfect patience, to make me an example to those who in the future might believe on Him to obtain eternal life.

Some men's sins are very evident and clearly lead them on to judgment, but the sins of others lag behind.

Good deeds, too, are usually very evident, and if they are not, they cannot be completely concealed.

The Lord grant that he may find mercy at His hands on that day. And you very well know yourself how great were the services he rendered me at Ephesus.

To the pure everything is pure, but to the impure and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are impure.

who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.

I am sending him back to you, which is all the same as sending my very heart.

I, Paul, write it with my own hand, I will pay it in full -- not to mention the fact that you owe me your very self besides.

how can we escape, if we pay no attention at all to a salvation that is so great? This is so because it was first proclaimed by the Lord Himself, and then it was proved to us to be valid by the very men who heard Him themselves,

but Christ as a Son set over the house of God was faithful; and we are that house, if we keep up our courage and the joy that hope inspires to the very end.

For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

And we desire each one of you to continue to show the same earnestness to the very end, that you may enjoy your hope to the fullest,

For it is very clear that our Lord sprang from Judah, a tribe about which Moses said nothing as to priests.

For we needed such a High Priest, holy, innocent, unstained, far removed from sinful men, and elevated far above the very heavens,

For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, that Christ entered, but it was into heaven itself that He went, in order now to appear for us in the very presence of God.

"In just a very little while, the Coming One will come and not delay;

And more especially do I beg you to do so, that I may very soon be brought back to you.

Do you believe in one God? Very well; the demons, too, believe that, and shudder.

Stop muttering against one another, brothers, so as to keep from being judged yourselves. Look! The Judge is standing at the very door.

So practice confessing your sins to one another, and praying for one another, that you may be cured. An upright man's prayer, when it keeps at work, is very powerful.

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

Now for this very reason you must do your level best to supplement your faith with moral character, moral character with knowledge,

because I know that the removal of my bodily tent is to be very soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

It is what existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, what our own hands have touched, about the very message of life --

And the very thing that He Himself has promised us is eternal life.

I hope to see you very soon and will talk it over face to face. Goodbye. Our friends wish to be remembered to you. Remember me to our friends individually.

But these persons abuse everything they do not understand, and they are going to be destroyed by the very things they know by instinct, like the irrational animals.

A revelation given by Jesus Christ which God gave to Him, to make known to His slaves what must very soon take place. He sent and communicated it through His angel to His slave John,

To him who conquers and continues to the very end to do the works that please me, I will give authority over the heathen;

Wake up, and strengthen what is left, although it is on the very point of dying, for I have not found a thing that you have done complete in the sight of God.

Because you say, 'I am rich, I have already become rich, I need nothing,' and you do not know that you are the very one that is wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked;

At that very hour there was a great earthquake, and one-tenth of the city went down. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were stricken with awe, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The ten horns that you saw and the wild beast will be the very ones to hate the prostitute, to make her desolate and naked, to eat up her flesh, and burn her up with fire.

for this very reason her plagues will overtake her in a single day, death, grief, and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; because the Lord who has judged her is mighty.

and it continued to retain the glory of God. The luster of it was like a very precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal.