When they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said, "Wake up! Take the child and his mother and make your escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave. For Herod is going to look for the child in order to make away with him."

and said, "Wake up! Take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."

So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries of its own. Let each day be content with its own ills.

And they came and woke him up, saying, "Save us, sir! We are lost!"

"Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago!

Let my yoke be put upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble-minded, and your hearts will find rest,

for the yoke I offer you is a kindly one, and the load I ask you to bear is light."

He will not break off a bent reed, And he will not put out a smoldering wick, Until he carries his judgment to success.

That is what my heavenly Father will do to you, if you do not each forgive your brothers from your hearts!"

He gave one five thousand dollars, and another two thousand, and another one thousand; to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

You must all watch, and pray that you may not be exposed to trial! One's spirit is eager, but flesh and blood are weak!"

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him up and said to him, "Master, does it make no difference to you that we are sinking?"

just as a man when he leaves home to go on a journey, and puts his slaves in charge, each with his duties, gives orders to the watchman to keep watch.

You must all watch, and pray that you may not be subjected to trial. One's spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

Then they crucified him, and divided up his clothes, drawing lots for them to see what each of them should have.

Then very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, when the sun had just risen.

Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.

And he went up and touched the bier, and the bearers stopped. And he said, "Young man, I tell you, wake up!"

And they went to him and woke him up, and said to him, "Master! Master! We are lost!" Then he awoke and reproved the wind and the rough water, and they ceased, and there was a calm.

For there were about five thousand men. But he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each."

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes!

Give us each day our bread for the day,

Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. Please have me excused.'

Then he called in each of his master's debtors, and he said to the first one, 'How much do you owe my master?'

I fast two days in the week; I pay tithes on everything I get.'

And he called in ten of his slaves and gave them each twenty dollars and told them to trade with it while he was gone.

but on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking spices they had prepared.

And he said to them, "What is all this that you are discussing with each other on your way?" They stopped sadly,

And they said to each other, "Did not our hearts glow when he was talking to us on the road, and was explaining the Scriptures to us?"

Now there were six stone water jars there, for the ceremonial purification practiced by the Jews, each large enough to hold twenty or thirty gallons.

Philip answered, "Forty dollars' worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have even a little."

He told them this, and then he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" each one giving him a blow.

There they crucified him, with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, besides his shirt. Now his shirt had no seam; it was woven in one piece from top to bottom.

A week after, the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came in and stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you!"

And they saw tongues like flames separating and settling one on the head of each of them,

And when this sound was heard, the crowd gathered in great excitement, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

Then how is it that each of us hears his own native tongue?

For some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be a person of importance, and a group of men numbering some four hundred joined him. But he was killed and all his followers were dispersed and disappeared.

The next day, he came across two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. He said to them, 'You are brothers. Why should you injure each other?'

Cornelius answered, "Three days ago, just at this time of day, I was praying in my house about three o'clock, when a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

The disciples determined to make up a contribution, each according to his ability, and send it to the brothers who lived in Judea,

when an angel of the Lord stood at his side, and a light shone in the room, and striking Peter on the side, he woke him, and said to him, "Get up quickly!" The chains dropped from his hands,

They appointed elders for them in each church, and with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Then why do you now try to test God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke that neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?

Some time after, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come, let us go back and revisit the brothers in each of the towns where we made the Lord's message known, to see how they are doing."

It woke up the jailer, and when he saw that the doors of the jail were open, he drew his sword and was just going to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

while we sailed from Philippi after the festival of Unleavened Bread, and joined them at Troas five days later. There we stayed a week.

On the first day of the week, when we had met for the breaking of bread, Paul addressed them, as he was going away the next morning, and he prolonged his address until midnight.

I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "

So we looked up the disciples there and stayed a week with them. Instructed by the Spirit, they warned Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem.

Then Paul joined the men and went through the rites of purification with them and the next day went to the Temple to give notice of the time when, upon the offering of the sacrifice for each one of them, their days of purification would be over.

"Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago raised the four thousand cut-throats and led them out into the desert?"

for it is not more than twelve days ago, as you can easily satisfy yourself, that I went up to worship at Jerusalem,

There we found some of the brothers, and they urged us to spend a week with them. Then we went on to Rome.

which he promised long ago through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

So the Law itself is holy, and each command is holy, just, and good.

All this especially, because you know this critical time and that it is time for you to wake from your sleep, for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

So each one of us must give an account of himself to God.

But it was what the world calls foolish that God chose to put the wise to shame with, and it was what the world calls weak that God chose to shame its strength with,

What is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Just servants through whom you came to have faith, as the Lord gave each of us opportunity.

The planter and the waterer are all one, though each of us will be paid for his own work.

We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another.

for each of you hurries to get his own supper and eat it, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

Each one is given his spiritual illumination for the common good.

These are all produced by one and the same Spirit, and apportioned to each of us just as the Spirit chooses.

There are probably ever so many different languages in the world, each with its own meaning.

But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him.

and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.

On the first of every week each of you is to put aside and store up whatever he gains, so that money will not have to be collected after I come.

For we must all appear in our true characters before the tribunal of the Christ, each to be repaid with good or evil for the life he has lived in the body.

To my shame I must admit that I was too weak for that sort of thing. But whatever anyone else dares to boast of?? am playing the part of a fool?? will dare to boast of too.

Who is weak without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation?

I know of a man fourteen years ago??hether in the body or out of it, I do not know, God knows??eing actually caught up to the third heaven.

That is why I am pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, when they are endured for Christ's sake, for it is when I am weak that I am strong.

Those who have kept on in their old sins and all the rest I have warned, and I warn them now while I am still away, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will spare nobody??3 since you demand proof that Christ really speaks through me. He is not weak in dealing with you. On the contrary, right among you he exhibits his power.

Even if he was crucified through weakness, by the power of God he is alive. For we are weak as he was, but you will find that by the power of God we will be alive as he is.

I am glad to be weak, if you are strong! That is what I pray for??he perfecting of your characters.

but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again.

But each one of us has been given mercy in Christ's generous measure.

For it is under his control that the whole system, adjusted and united by each ligament of its equipment, develops in proportion to the functioning of each particular part, and so builds itself up through love.

So you must lay aside falsehood and each tell his neighbor the truth, for we are parts of one another.

So it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, And Christ will dawn upon you!"

But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

and for the hope of what is stored up for you in heaven. You first heard of it long ago when the true message of the gospel

that each of you learn to take a wife for himself from pure and honorable motives,

We beg you, brothers, warn the idlers, cheer up the despondent, keep hold of the weak, be patient with everybody.

These are the instructions that I intrust to you, my son Timothy, and they are in accordance with the predictions made long ago about you. Fight the good fight with their aid,

All who are under the yoke of slavery must treat their masters with the greatest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be abused.

He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,

They are the kind of men who make their way into people's houses and make captives of poor, weak women, loaded down with their sins and under the control of all sorts of impulses,

in the hope of eternal life, which God who never lies promised ages ago,

I left you behind in Crete expressly to correct what defects there were, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you??6 men of irreproachable character, who have been married only once, whose children are Christians, free from any suspicion of profligacy or disobedience.

But we want each of you to exhibit this same earnestness to the very end with regard to your confidence in your hope,