But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there; and being warned of God in a dream, he withdrew into Galilee and settled in a town called Nazareth,

"Which one of you by being anxious is able to add even one cubit to his stature?

"the lame are walking, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised up, and the gospel is being preached to the poor.

And in them is being fulfilled that prophecy of Isaiah which says. "Hearing you will hear and not understand; Seeing you will see and not perceive;

"It is as you say," answered Jesus; but while he was being accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

In the same way the robbers also who were being crucified with him, dept reviling him.

among them being Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

and then being a widow even for fourscore and four years. She departed not from the temple, but worshiped with the fasting and prayer, night and day.

So he answered them. "Go your way, tell John what you have seen and heard. How the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, and the poor are hearing the proclamations of glad tidings.

On hearing this all the people and the tax-gatherers acknowledged the justice of God by being baptized with the baptism of John;

Now Herod, the Tetrarch, heard of all that was happening; and he was perplexed because of its being said by someone that John was risen from the dead;

"Men were eating and drinking; they were marrying and being married, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

"For indeed they cannot die any more; they are equal to the angels, and through being sons of the resurrection are sons of God.

(And being in agony he kept praying more earnestly; and his sweat became as if it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.)

All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.

A man came into being, sent from God, whose name was John.

He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony concerning the Light that he came into being.

He was in the world, and through him the world came into being, yet the world knew him not.

"By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.

Here, because of its being Preparation Day, and as the tomb was near by, they placed Jesus.

praising God, and looked on with favor by all the people. Meanwhile the Lord kept adding to them daily those that were being saved.

"Rulers and elders of the people, if we are being examined today concerning a benefit conferred upon a cripple, as to how has this man been cured,

So when they had further threatened them they let the apostles go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them because of the people, for everybody was glorifying God over what had happened.

"But he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not a single square yard of ground; yet he promised to bestow the land as a permanent possession on him and his posterity??e at that time being childless.

And as they were going on their way they came to a certain water, and the eunuch said: "See, here is water! What hinders my being baptized?"

One of them, who was Agabus, rose up, and being instructed by the Spirit, predicted that a great famine was about to come upon the whole inhabited earth. (It came in the reign of Claudius.)

Instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he had not given God the glory, and being eaten up by worms, he died.

"The God who made the universe and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

"for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, "'For we also are his offspring.'

He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord, and being full of zeal, he used to speak and to teach accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

For indeed we are in danger of being accused in regard to this day's riot, since there is no cause for it, nor shall we be able to give account for this disorderly gathering."

And as we were being terribly battered by the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard,

First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world.

FOR IN IT IS BEING REVEALED A RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH PROCEEDS FROM GOD, FROM FAITH UNTO FAITH; AS IT IS WRITTEN.

For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

For ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his everlasting power and divinity, has been clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. So they have no excuse.

What then? Are we Jews in a better position? Not at all, for I have already charged all, both Jews and Gentiles, with being under sin.

but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus.

This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham's posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

By how much more, then, being now justified in his blood, shall we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?

So, was any man called, being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was any man called when he was uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled.

Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.

I am Christ's fragrance upwafted unto God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing;

And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

For this reason, as I have said, I do not lose courage, but even though my outward man is wasting away, my inward man is being renewed, day by day.

For in this tent I am groaning, earnestly longing to be under the cover of my heavenly habitation; if so be that being so covered,

For he not only consented to my request, but being thoroughly in earnest, comes to you of his own accord.

For I aim at being above reproach, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Even when I lacked the actual necessities of life while I was with you, I was a burden to no one; for whatever I lacked, the brothers from Macedonia supplied, when they came. So I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

who was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable words which no human being is permitted to utter.

and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being,

But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.

If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.

He, however, who is being taught in the message, should always share with his instructor in all the good things which he possesses.

Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh.

You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.

praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being;

These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.

being filled with the fruit of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these men withstand the truth; being corrupt in mind and worthless in all that concerns the faith.

But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.

I for my part am a libation already being poured in sacrifice; and the time of my unmooring is at hand.

In order that being justified by his grace, We might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

He being an emanation of God's glory and stamp of his substance, and upholding the universe by the utterances of his power, after by himself making purification of our sins, has taken his seat on the right hand of the Majesty on High.

For inasmuch as he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted.

Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

and by being thus made perfect, he became the source of enduring salvation to all who obey him,

but if it produces thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and its end will be to be burned.

Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood, (and it was under it that the people received the Law) why was it still necessary for another kind of priest to arise, after the order of Melchizedek, instead of being reckoned according to the order of Aaron?

For the Law appoints human beings to be high priests, men with all their weakness; but the word of the oath, which was later than the Law, appoints a Son, perfected forevermore.

For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.

so also the Christ, after being once for all offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who wait for him for salvation.

For the Law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not their very substance, its priests cannot with the same sacrifice which year after year they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

partly by being made a public spectacle in reproaches and afflictions, and partly by sharing the fortunes of those that were so used.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented??38 of whom the world was not worthy??andering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.

When he is being tempted, let no one say, "It is God who tempts me," for God cannot be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man.

And the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by those who are working peace.

Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you.

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, knowing well that the same afflictions are being accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.

But the heavens and earth that now are, by the same word of God, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the Day of Judgment, and for the destruction of ungodly men.

while you look for and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat.

To the angel of the Church at Sardis, write. These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works, that you have the name of being alive, but are really dead.

"Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, To receive the glory and the honor and the power; For thou didst create all things, And because of thy will they came into being And were created."