After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Wake up! Tenderly take the child and His mother, and escape to Egypt; stay there until I further direct you, for Herod is going to search for the child to destroy Him."

and said, "Wake up, tenderly take the child and His mother, and make the trip to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."

So never worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries of its own. Each day has evil enough of its own."

So they went to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Lord, save us; we are going down!"

"A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes.

Put on my yoke, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls,

for the yoke I offer is easy to wear, and the load I ask is light to bear

A broken reed He will not break off; a flickering wick He will not put out, until He brings His judgment to victory.

This is the way my heavenly Father too will deal with you, if you do not, each one, heartily forgive your brother."

And they who had been hired at five o'clock came and received twenty cents each.

And those who were hired first, when they came, supposed that they would receive more, but they too received twenty cents each.

He gave one five thousand dollars, another two thousand, another one thousand, to each in accordance with his ability. Then he started on his long journey.

You must all keep watching and praying that you may not be exposed to temptation. Man's spirit is willing but human nature is weak."

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

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?"

It will be like a man who leaves his home and goes on a journey, after he has given orders to his slaves, to each his particular task, and has given orders to the watchman to keep watch.

You must all keep watching and praying that you may not be exposed to temptation. Man's spirit is willing but human nature is weak."

Then they crucified Him and divided among them His clothes, by drawing lots for them to see which piece each of them should have.

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

Now after He had risen, early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom He had driven seven demons.

So they came to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Master, Master, we are perishing? Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind and the surge of the water, and they stopped at once and instantly there came a calm.

For there were about five thousand men. So He said to His disciples, "Have them sit down in reclining groups of fifty each."

A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

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

Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I am on my way to try them. Please excuse me.'

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

I fast two days in the week. I pay a tithe on everything I get.'

Now on the Sabbath they rested, in accordance with the commandment, but on the first day of the week at early dawn they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared.

Then they said to each other, "Did not our hearts keep burning in our bosoms as He was talking to us on the road, as He went on explaining the Scriptures to us?"

Now in accordance with the custom of purification practiced by the Jews, six stone water jars were standing there, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

And each one went to his own house.

He said this, and after that He added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

and kept marching up to Him and saying, "All hail, you king of the Jews!" each one slapping Him on the face.

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, except the coat, which was without a seam, woven in one piece from top to bottom,

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

In the evening of that same first day of the week, even with the doors of the room bolted where the disciples had met for fear of the Jews, Jesus went in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

Just a week later the disciples were in the room again and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were bolted, Jesus came in and stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you!"

And they saw tongues like flames of fire separating and resting on their heads, one to each of them,

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

So how is it that each of us hears them speaking in his own native tongue?

And thus they all continued to be astounded and bewildered, and continued to say to each other, "What can this mean?"

and He may send back Jesus, the Christ who long ago was appointed for you.

The next day he showed himself to two of them engaged in a fight, and he tried to get them to make friends, saying, 'You are brothers, why should you harm each other?'

Then Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and all at once a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

So the disciples decided to send a contribution, each in proportion to his prosperity, to help the brothers who lived in Judea.

And suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in his cell, and by striking Peter on the side the angel woke him, and said, "Get up quickly!" At once the chains fell off his hands.

They helped them select elders in each church, and after praying 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 these disciples' necks a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we could bear?

while we, after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, sailed from Philippi, and five days after joined them at Troas, where we spent a week.

On the first day of the week when we had met to break bread, Paul addressed them, since he was leaving the next day, and prolonged his speech till midnight.

In everything I showed you that by working hard like this we must help those who are weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It makes one happier to give than to get.'"

So we looked up the disciples there and stayed a week with them. Because of impressions made by the Spirit they kept on warning Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem.

Then Paul took the men along with him and on the next day went into the temple with them, purified, and announced the time when the purification would be completed, when the sacrifice for each one of them could be offered.

Are you not the Egyptian who sometime ago raised a mob of four thousand cut-throats and led them out into the desert?"

for you can verify the fact that not more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship,

There we found some brothers, and they begged us to spend a week with them. In this way we finally reached Rome.

which long ago He promised through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,

Do this in particular because you know the present crisis, that it is high time for you to wake up out of your sleep, for our salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

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

Each one of us must practice pleasing his neighbor, to help in his immediate upbuilding for his eternal good.

Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

Then what is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Mere servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave each of us his task.

The planter and the waterer are one in aim, and yet each of us will get his own pay in accordance with his own work,

the character of each one's work will come to light, for the judgment day will show it up. This is so, because that day will show itself in fire, and the fire will test the character of each one's work.

So you must stop forming any premature judgments, but wait until the Lord shall come again, for He will bring to light the secrets hidden in the dark and will make known the motives of men's hearts, and the proper praise will be awarded each of us.

For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor.

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

Brothers, each one must continue close to God in the very station in which he was called.

for each of you is in a rush to eat his own supper, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

To each of us is given a special spiritual illumination for the common good.

But the one and same Spirit accomplishes all these achievements, and apportions power to each of us as He chooses.

But each in his proper order; Christ first, then at His coming those who belong to Christ.

but God gives it just the body He sees fit, even each kind of seed its own body.

On the first day of every week each of you must put aside and store up something in proportion as he is prospered, so that no contributions need be made when I come back.

For we must all appear before the judgment-bar of Christ, that each may get his pay for what he has done, whether it be good or bad.

Now I will give you my opinion on this matter. For this is for your interest, because you were not only the first to do anything about it, but the first to want to do so; you started it a year ago.

Each must give what he has purposed in his heart to give, not sorrowfully or under compulsion, for it is the happy giver that God loves.

I am ashamed to say that I was, as it were, so weak in the matter. And yet in whatever respect anyone else is daring to boast -- I am talking like a fool -- I too will dare to boast.

Who is weak without my being weak too? Who is caused to fall without my being fired with indignation?

I know a man in union with Christ fourteen years ago -- whether in the body or out of it, I do not know, but God knows -- who was caught up to the third heaven.

So I most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the strength of Christ may overshadow me. That is why I take such pleasure in weaknesses, insults, distresses, persecution, and difficulties, which I endure for Christ's sake, for it is when I am consciously weak that I am really strong.

I am glad to be consciously weak, if you are really strong. This is my continual prayer, the perfecting of your characters.

but now, since you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them again?

This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.

For the cravings of the lower nature are just the opposite to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are just the opposite of those of the lower nature; these two are opposed to each other, so that you cannot do anything you please.

Brothers, if anybody is caught in the very act of doing wrong, you who are spiritual, in the spirit of gentleness, must set him right; each of you continuing to think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

But in accordance with the measure of Christ's gift, His favor has been bestowed upon each one of us.

For it is under His direction that the whole body is perfectly adjusted and united by every joint that furnishes its supplies; and by the proper functioning of each particular part there is brought about the growing of the body for its building up in love.

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

So it is said: "Wake up, sleeper; get up from the dead, and Christ will make day dawn on you."

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

circumcised when I was a week old; a descendant of Israel; a member of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, a son of Hebrews. Measured by the law, I was a Pharisee;

because of your hope of what is laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope through the message of the good news

for you know how, as a father deals with his children, we used to encourage you, cheer you on, and charge each of you

that each man among you should learn to take his own wife out of pure and honorable motives,

We beg you, brothers, continue to warn the shirkers, to cheer the faint-hearted, to hold up the weak, and to be patient with everybody.

All who are under the yoke of slavery must esteem their masters to be deserving the highest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be abused.

For He saved us and called us with a holy call, not in accordance with anything that we had done, but in accordance with His own purpose and unmerited favor which was shown us through union with Christ Jesus eternal ages ago,