Then He took a child, had him stand among them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them,

“Whoever welcomes one little child such as this in My name welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me does not welcome Me, but Him who sent Me.”

Salt is good, but if the salt should lose its flavor, how can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.”

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

Should we pay, or should we not pay?”

But knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at.”

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

Then brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and put them to death.

“When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it should not” (let the reader understand), “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains!

they will pick up snakes; if they should drink anything deadly, it will never harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well.”

Then she exclaimed with a loud cry:

“You are the most blessed of women,
and your child will be blessed!

How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.

All who heard about him took it to heart, saying, “What then will this child become?” For, indeed, the Lord’s hand was with him.

And child, you will be called
a prophet of the Most High,
for you will go before the Lord
to prepare His ways,

The child grew up and became spiritually strong, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered.

After seeing them, they reported the message they were told about this child,

Guided by the Spirit, he entered the temple complex. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to perform for Him what was customary under the law,

Then Simeon blessed them and told His mother Mary: “Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed—

“What then should we do?” the crowds were asking him.

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they asked him, “Teacher, what should we do?”

Some soldiers also questioned him: “What should we do?”

He said to them, “Don’t take money from anyone by force or false accusation; be satisfied with your wages.”

But new wine should be put into fresh wineskins.

and sent them to the Lord, asking, “Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?”

When the men reached Him, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask You, ‘Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?’”

“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

Still other seed fell on good ground; when it sprang up, it produced a crop: 100 times what was sown.” As He said this, He called out, “Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”

After He came to the house, He let no one enter with Him except Peter, John, James, and the child’s father and mother.

So He took her by the hand and called out, “Child, get up!”

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

But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, took a little child and had him stand next to Him.

He told them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in My name welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me welcomes Him who sent Me. For whoever is least among you—this one is great.”

“But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. These things you should have done without neglecting the others.

Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don’t have anywhere to store my crops?

Don’t keep striving for what you should eat and what you should drink, and don’t be anxious.

He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

“Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty?

It isn’t fit for the soil or for the manure pile; they throw it out. Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”

“Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig; I’m ashamed to beg.

“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’

In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves; we’ve only done our duty.’”

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.’

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

Then a dispute also arose among them about who should be considered the greatest.

Then He said to them, “But now, whoever has a money-bag should take it, and also a traveling bag. And whoever doesn’t have a sword should sell his robe and buy one.

When those around Him saw what was going to happen, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with the sword?”

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink!

When they persisted in questioning Him, He stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.”

You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him.

“Now My soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save Me from this hour? But that is why I came to this hour.

For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a command as to what I should say and what I should speak.

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

Since Judas kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was advantageous that one man should die for the people.

But they shouted, “Take Him away! Take Him away! Crucify Him!”

Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”

“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

saying, “What should we do with these men? For an obvious sign, evident to all who live in Jerusalem, has been done through them, and we cannot deny it!

“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.

Therefore, in my judgment, we should not cause difficulties for those among the Gentiles who turn to God,

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

“Then I said, ‘What should I do, Lord?’

“And the Lord told me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about everything that is assigned for you to do.’

He ordered that the centurion keep Paul under guard, though he could have some freedom, and that he should not prevent any of his friends from serving him.

However, Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to go there shortly.

Then Festus said: “King Agrippa and all men present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish community has appealed to me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he should not live any longer.

Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

Since many were going without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “You men should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete and sustain this damage and loss.

What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.

What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.

For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.

And again:

Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles;
all the peoples should praise Him!

So you should welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints and assist her in whatever matter she may require your help. For indeed she has been a benefactor of many—and of me also.

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

So no one should boast in human leaders, for everything is yours—

A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries.

It is of little importance to me that I should be evaluated by you or by any human court. In fact, I don’t even evaluate myself.

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.

What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

Was anyone already circumcised when he was called? He should not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

Each person should remain in the life situation in which he was called.

Were you called while a slave? It should not be a concern to you. But if you can become free, by all means take the opportunity.

Brothers, each person should remain with God in whatever situation he was called.

And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.

In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should earn their living by the gospel.