But just as this thought occurred to him, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for it is through the influence of the Holy Spirit that she has become an expectant mother.

"The virgin will become pregnant and have a son, and they will call Him Immanuel" -- which means "God with us."

I have not come to set them aside but to fill them up to the brim. For I solemnly say to you, heaven and earth would sooner pass away than the dotting of an 'i' or the crossing of a 't' from the law, until it all becomes in force.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

Now if Satan is driving out Satan, he has become disunited; how then can his kingdom last?

He said to them, "Every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who can bring out of his storeroom new furnishings as well as old."

and said: "I solemnly say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you can never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.

So then, whoever becomes as lowly as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,

Then Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures: 'That stone which the builders threw away has become the cornerstone; this is the work of the Lord and seems wonderful to us!'

No one sews a patch of brand-new goods on an old coat; or, if he does, the patch tears away, the new from the old, and the hole becomes bigger than ever.

And if Satan has made an insurrection against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is surely coming to an end.

and he and his wife must become one,' so they are no longer two but one.

Have you never read this passage of Scripture: "'That stone which the builders threw away has now become the cornerstone;

Listen! You will become pregnant and bear a son, and you must name Him Jesus.

And listen! your relative, Elizabeth, has herself too become pregnant, although she is old, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Every ravine must be filled up, and every mountain and hill leveled down; the crooked places must become straight roads, and the rough roads must be made smooth,

But his citizens continued to hate him, and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man to become king over us.'

But bring those enemies of mine here who did not want me to become king over them and slay them in my presence!'"

But He glanced at them and said, "Then what does this Scripture mean: 'That stone which the builders threw away has now become the cornerstone'?

But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God,

He is to become my successor, because He has been put before me, and I am not fit to untie His shoestrings."

but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."

He answered them, "I have already told you and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples, do you?"

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind."

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will listen to my voice, and all my sheep will become one flock with one shepherd.

While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." On saying this Jesus went away and hid Himself.

Even on my slaves, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will become prophets.

He is the stone that was thrown away by you builders, which has become the cornerstone.

Now there was but one heart and soul in the vast number of those who had become believers, and not one of them claimed that anything that he had was his own, but they shared everything that they had as common property.

and they said to Aaron, 'Make us gods to march in front of us, for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!'

When morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

that God has fulfilled it to us their children, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the Second Psalm, 'You are my Son, today I have become your Father.'

But some members of the Pharisaic party, who had become believers, arose and said that such converts must be circumcised and told to keep the law of Moses.

As for the heathen who have become believers, we have sent them our resolution that they must avoid anything that is contaminated by idols, the tasting of blood, the meat of strangled animals, and sexual immorality."

After considerable time had gone by, and navigation had become dangerous, and the fast was now over, Paul began to warn them

They all have turned aside, all have become corrupt; No one does good, not even one!

and since you have been freed from sin, you have become the slaves of right-doing.

But now, since you have been freed from sin and have become the slaves of God, the immediate result is consecration, and the final destiny is eternal life.

What are we then to conclude? Israel has failed to obtain what it is still in search for, but His chosen ones have obtained it. The rest have become insensible to it,

And David said: "Let their food become a snare and a trap to them, their pitfall and retribution;

But if their stumbling has resulted in the enrichment of the world, and their overthrow becomes the enrichment of heathen peoples, how much richer the result will be when the full quota of Jews comes in!

Yes, I mean that Christ has become a servant to Israel to prove God's truthfulness, to make valid His promises to our forefathers,

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in this world's wisdom, as compared with the rest of you, to become really wise he must become a fool.

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.

But some of you have become conceited over the thought that I am not coming to see you.

Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is good for me. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not become a slave to anything.

But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people.

To the Jews I have become like a Jew for the winning of Jews; to men under the law, like one under the law, though I am not under the law myself, to win the men under the law;

To the overscrupulous I have become overscrupulous, to win the overscrupulous; yes, I have become everything to everybody, in order by all means to save some of them.

But I keep on beating and bruising my body and making it my slave, so that I, after I have summoned others to the race, may not myself become unfit to run.

But by God's unmerited favor I have become what I am, and His unmerited favor shown to me was not bestowed for nothing, for I have toiled more extensively than any of them, and yet it was not I but God's unmerited favor working with me.

And when everything has been put in subjection to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has put everything in subjection to Him, so that God may be everything to everybody.

This is the way the Scripture puts it too, "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

For God's Son, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us, Silvanus, Timothy, and me, did not become a "Yes" that might mean "No."

For by experience you know the unmerited favor shown by our Lord Jesus Christ; that although He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, in order that by His poverty you might become rich.

For through the law I myself have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God.

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?

He foreordained us to become His sons by adoption through Christ Jesus, to carry out the happy choice of His will,

in this way it has become well known throughout the Imperial Guard and to all the rest here that I am a prisoner in the service of Christ,

When people say, "Such peace and security!" then suddenly destruction falls upon them, like birth pains upon a woman who is about to become a mother, but they shall not escape, no, not at all.

so that we might come into right standing with God through His unmerited favor and become heirs of eternal life in accordance with our hope.

yes, I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I have become while wearing these chains.

For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have become your Father"?

Or again, "I will become His Father, and He shall become my Son"? But when He brings again His first-born Son into the world, He says, "And let all the angels worship Him."

For we have become real sharers in Christ, if we keep firm to the end the faith we had at first,

So Christ too did not take upon Himself the glory of being appointed High Priest, but it was God who said: "You are my Son; I have today become your Father,"

I have much to say to you about Him, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, since you have become so dull in your spiritual senses.

so much the more Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

And the Levitical priests, on the one hand, have become numerous, because they have been prevented by death from continuing in office,

By faith Sarah received strength to become pregnant, and actually gave birth to a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought that He who made her the promise was to be trusted.

So to you who put your trust in Him the honor belongs, but to those who fail to trust Him: "That stone which then the builders threw away Has now become the cornerstone,"

They were submissive to their husbands, as Sarah, for example, obeyed Abraham and called him master. You have become true daughters of hers, if you practice doing right and cease from every fear.

And if it is hard for the upright man to be saved, what will become of the godless and sinful?

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

Because you say, 'I am rich, I have already become rich, I need nothing,' and you do not know that you are the very one that is wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked;

I advise you to buy of me gold that has been refined in the fire, so that you may become rich, and white clothes to put on, to hide your shameful nakedness, and salve to put on your eyes, to make you see.

She was about to become a mother, and she cried out in anguish in giving birth to a child.

The ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have not yet become kings, but for a single hour they accept authority as kings allied with the wild beast.

He shouted with a mighty voice: "She has fallen! Mighty Babylon has fallen! She has become a den for demons, a dungeon for every foul spirit and every unclean and loathsome bird,