just as He spoke by the mouth
of His holy prophets in ancient times;

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had seen and heard, just as they had been told.

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord: Every firstborn male will be dedicated to the Lord)

Just then some men came, carrying on a mat a man who was paralyzed. They tried to bring him in and set him down before Him.

Just as you want others to do for you, do the same for them.

Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

Just as He neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was also with her.

Just then, a man named Jairus came. He was a leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet and pleaded with Him to come to his house,

Just then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, because he’s my only child.

Just then an expert in the law stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

He was praying in a certain place, and when He finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.

“And another said, ‘I just got married, and therefore I’m unable to come.’

“‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man:

So those who were sent left and found it just as He had told them.

They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive greater punishment.”

So they went and found it just as He had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

I bestow on you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one on Me,

Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they didn’t see Him.”

He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord—just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

“Rabbi,” the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You’re going there again?”

Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written:

I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done for you.

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.

On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.

“Get up; let’s leave this place.

Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His love.

“Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught,” Jesus told them.

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: This Jesus the Nazarene was a man pointed out to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through Him, just as you yourselves know.

“And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.

“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in a dazzling robe stood before me

“Can anyone withhold water and prevent these people from being baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them, just as on us at the beginning.

Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the town, brought oxen and garlands to the gates. He, with the crowds, intended to offer sacrifice.

And God, who knows the heart, testified to them by giving the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us.

He continued, “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and educated according to the strict view of our patriarchal law. Being zealous for God, just as all of you are today,

Therefore, take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.

When it was about daylight, Paul urged them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, having eaten nothing.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry among you, just as among the rest of the Gentiles.

For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.

Although they know full well God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!

For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.

I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

And just as Isaiah predicted:

If the Lord of Hosts had not left us offspring,
we would have become like Sodom,
and we would have been made like Gomorrah.

Therefore accept one another, just as the Messiah also accepted you, to the glory of God.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

I wish that all people were just like me. But each has his own gift from God, one person in this way and another in that way.

just as I also try to please all people in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, so that they may be saved.

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Now I praise you because you always remember me and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, and all things come from God.

But now God has placed each one of the parts in one body just as He wanted.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

And just as we have borne
the image of the man made of dust,
we will also bear
the image of the heavenly man.

I don’t want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves especially to the Lord, then to us by God’s will.

So we urged Titus that just as he had begun, so he should also complete this grace to you.

But now finish the task as well, that just as there was eagerness to desire it, so there may also be a completion from what you have.

But I sent the brothers so our boasting about you in the matter would not prove empty, and so you would be prepared just as I said.

Look at what is obvious. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

But I will continue to do what I am doing, in order to deny the opportunity of those who want an opportunity to be regarded just as our equals in what they boast about.

On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter was for the circumcised,

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,

Now a mediator is not for just one person, but God is one.

Now it is always good to be enthusiastic about good—and not just when I am with you.

But just as then the child born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so also now.

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope at your calling—

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

What does it matter? Just that in every way, whether out of false motives or true, Christ is proclaimed. And in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice

Just one thing: Live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith that comes from the gospel,

So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise—dwell on these things.

that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.

rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with gratitude.

accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive.

Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but rather God, who examines our hearts.

For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from the Jews

And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we also do for you.

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you,