But he who hears, and does not do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."

"To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?

They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you did not dance. We mourned, and you did not weep.'

He said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

Woe to you. For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them do not know it."

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They do not toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Be like people watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."

It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened."

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused.

"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Truly, I tell you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

For they cannot die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they did not see him."

They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

And John testified, saying, "I saw the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man."

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I do not know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

Some said, "It is he." Others said, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he."

If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord your God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.'

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.

the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they yelled at him like that.

He wrote a letter like this:

Agrippa said to Festus, "I also would like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him."

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

But we were like children among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you do not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.

As a cloak, you will roll them up, and like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will have no end."

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

who does not need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his own birthright for one meal.

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

In like manner was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

For, "All flesh is like grass, and all it's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any do not obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

But these speak evil of whatever things they do not know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.

His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.

His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.