And they were astonished beyond measure, saying to themselves, And who can be saved?

But Jesus said to them, You do not know what you ask. Can you drink of the cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

And they said to Him, We can. And Jesus said to them, You shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with you shall be baptized.

And it happened, as He was in a certain city, behold, a man full of leprosy! And seeing Jesus, he fell on his face and begged Him, saying, Lord, if You will, You can cleanse me.

And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, except God alone?

But He said to them, Can you make the sons of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them?

And He spoke a parable to them: Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?

Or how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the splinter in your eye, when you yourself do not see the beam that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First cast out the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to pull out the splinter that is in your brother's eye.

And the man out of whom the demons had gone out begged Him, desiring to be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,

And Jesus said, Someone has touched Me, for I know that power has gone out of Me.

When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walks through dry places seeking rest. And finding none, he says, I will return to my house from which I came out.

The queen of the south shall rise up in the Judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, One greater than Solomon is here.

And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?

No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

And besides all this, there is a great chasm fixed between you and us; so that they desiring to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they pass over to us from there.

And the ones who heard said, And who can be saved?

And seeing, they all murmured, saying, He has gone in to stay with a sinful man.

Show Me a coin. Whose image and inscription does it have? They answered and said, Caesar's.

Nor can they die any more, for they are equal to the angels, and are the sons of God, being the sons of the resurrection.

By your patience you will gain your souls.

And Nathanael said to him, Can there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. And the mother of Jesus was there.

This beginning of miracles Jesus did in Cana of Galilee. And it revealed His glory. And His disciples believed on Him.

He came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no man can do these miracles which you do unless God is with him.

Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?

Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How can these things be?

And John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from Heaven.

(For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)

Then Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

Then Jesus answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of Himself but what He sees the Father do. For whatever things He does, these also the Son does likewise.

I can do nothing of My own self. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of the Father who has sent Me.

How can you believe, you who receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that comes from God only?

The following day, the crowd standing on the other side of the sea had seen that there was no other little boat there except that one into which His disciples had entered, and when they saw that Jesus did not go with His disciples into the little boat, but that His disciples had gone away alone,

No one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Then the Jews argued with one another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

Then when they had heard, many of His disciples said, This is a hard saying, who can hear it?

And He said, Because of this I said to you that no one can come to Me unless it was given to him from My Father.

But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret.

I must work the works of Him who sent Me, while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a man, a sinner, do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

Then the chief priests and Pharisees gathered a sanhedrin, and said, What can we do? For this man does many miracles.

Then the Pharisees said among themselves, Do you see how you gain nothing? Behold, the world has gone after Him.

Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You go, and how can we know the way?

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

Simon Peter, and Thomas called the Twin, and Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together.

And while they were looking intently into the heaven, He having gone, even behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them,

And he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship,

And he said, How can I unless some man should guide me? And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.

Then, indeed, the churches had rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and having been built up. And having gone on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were increased.

Can anyone forbid water that these, who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we, should not be baptized?

And when they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain conjurer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-jesus;

And the Jews having gone out of the synagogue, the nations begged that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

And as we went to prayer, it happened that a certain girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by divining.

And when her masters saw that the hope of their gain went out, having seized Paul and Silas, they dragged them to the market before the rulers.

And when he had landed at Caesarea and had gone up to greet the church, he went down to Antioch.

You can know that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is nothing of which these accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.

"They are all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one."

because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For any other foundation can no one lay than the one being laid, who is Jesus Christ.

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain the Jews. To those who are under the Law, I became as under the Law, so that I might gain those who are under the Law.

To those who are outside Law, I became as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under the Law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.

To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says Jesus is a curse, and that no one can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But whatever things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

For from you the Word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to speak anything.

For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

For they having served well gain a good grade for themselves, and much boldness in the faith, those in Christ Jesus.

meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

For we brought nothing into the world, and it is clear that we can carry nothing out.

who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;

whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.

who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are out of the way. For he himself also is compassed with weakness.

And indeed every priest stands daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks.

My brothers, what profit is it if a man says he has faith and does not have works? Can faith save him?

But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into Heaven, where the angels and authorities and powers are being subjected to Him.

For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

who have forsaken the right way and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

not as Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's things were righteous.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits to see if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Woe to them! For they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

These are murmurers, complainers, leading lives according to their lusts. And their mouth speaks proud things, admiring faces for the sake of gain.