Seeing that he became sad, Jesus said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!

For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

and said, “Go into the village ahead of you. As you enter it, you will find a young donkey tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.

Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains! Those inside the city must leave it, and those who are in the country must not enter it,

When He reached the place, He told them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

“Why are you sleeping?” He asked them. “Get up and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation.”

Finding that He was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into His glory?”

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Him.

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

Jesus responded to him, “Do you believe only because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.”

“But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,

“I assure you: Anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters themselves; otherwise they would be defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

When they arrived, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying:

Peter, John,
James, Andrew,
Philip, Thomas,
Bartholomew, Matthew,
James the son of Alphaeus,
Simon the Zealot,
and Judas the son of James.

There were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple complex, he asked for help.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.”

You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”

Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the Devil, because God was with Him.

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse: neither to eat nor to drink until they had killed Paul.

These men went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn curse that we won’t eat anything until we have killed Paul.

Don’t let them persuade you, because there are more than 40 of them arranging to ambush him, men who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they kill him. Now they are ready, waiting for a commitment from you.”

he said, “I will give you a hearing whenever your accusers get here too.” And he ordered that he be kept under guard in Herod’s palace.

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.

“I was traveling to Damascus under these circumstances with authority and a commission from the chief priests.

Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to set sail from there, hoping somehow to reach Phoenix, a harbor on Crete open to the southwest and northwest, and to winter there.

After running under the shelter of a little island called Cauda, we were barely able to get control of the skiff.

All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.

For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

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

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything.

But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep his own virgin, will do well.

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews; to those under the law, like one under the law—though I myself am not under the law—to win those under the law.

To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law.

Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, all passed through the sea,

And the prophets’ spirits are under the control of the prophets,

For He must reign until He puts all His enemies under His feet.

For God has put everything under His feet. But when it says “everything” is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception.

and perhaps I will remain with you or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I go.

And no wonder! For Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me,

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law is cursed.

But the Scripture has imprisoned everything under sin’s power, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Before this faith came, we were confined under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed.

But since that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

Instead, he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father.

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.

When the time came to completion, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Tell me, those of you who want to be under the law, don’t you hear the law?

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

And He put everything under His feet and appointed Him as head over everything for the church,

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

so that at the name of Jesus
every knee will bow—
of those who are in heaven and on earth
and under the earth—

if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.

one who manages his own household competently, having his children under control with all dignity.

All who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters to be worthy of all respect, so that God’s name and His teaching will not be blasphemed.

Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

and subjected everything under his feet.

For in subjecting everything to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.

So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”

For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it really all who came out of Egypt under Moses?

And who did He swear to that they would not enter His rest, if not those who disobeyed?

So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

(for we who have believed enter the rest), in keeping with what He has said:

So I swore in My anger,
they will not enter My rest.

And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world,

Again, in that passage He says, They will never enter My rest.

Since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,

Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.

If then, perfection came through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there for another priest to appear, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?

With these things set up this way, the priests enter the first room repeatedly, performing their ministry.

Therefore, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.

Therefore, brothers, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

Now above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. Your “yes” must be “yes,” and your “no” must be “no,” so that you won’t fall under judgment.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you at the proper time,

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it.

I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them say:

Blessing and honor and glory and dominion
to the One seated on the throne,
and to the Lamb, forever and ever!

When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the people slaughtered because of God’s word and the testimony they had.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of 12 stars on her head.

Then the sanctuary was filled with smoke from God’s glory and from His power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

Nothing profane will ever enter it: no one who does what is vile or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.