"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her is by the Holy Spirit; and she will bear a son, and you are to call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

Behold! the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son; and they shall call his name Immanuel, a word which means "God with us."

"But go and learn what this means, "It is mercy I desire, and not sacrifice; for I am come not to call just men, but sinners."

"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

"To what shall I compare this generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-place, who call to the other children,

And although he wished to kill John, he feared the people, for they considered John a prophet.

"and they will kill him, but on the third day he will rise again." And they were greatly grieved.

"Which commandments?" asked the man. Jesus replied. "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness;

"And when evening came, the Lord of the vineyard said to his steward, "'Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning with the last hired and ending with the first.'

But when the vine-dressers saw his son, they said to themselves: "'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.'

"How then, "he said, "does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

"They enjoy salutations in the market-places, and to have men call them 'Rabbi.'

"and call no one 'Father' on earth, for One is your Father in heaven.

"And call no one 'Leader,' because One is your leader, even the Christ.

"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;

they gave Jesus wine to drink, mingled with gall. But after tasting it he refused to drink it.

On hearing this Jesus said to them. "It is not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Then his mother and his brothers came up, and standing outside, they sent a messenger to him to call him.

But a great gale of wind came up, and the waves were dashing into the boat so that it began to fill.

Jesus said to him. "Why do you call me 'good'? No one is good save one, God himself.

Then Jesus stood still, saying, "Call him." So they called the blind man, and said, "Courage, rise, he is calling you."

"But those tenants said to themselves. 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

Now two days later was the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. Both the chief priests and the Scribes were continually seeking how they might arrest him by a stratagem and kill him;

So Pilate spoke to them once more, "What them shall I do to him you call 'King of the Jews'?"

But the Angel said to him. "Do not be afraid, Zachariah, because your petition has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.

"And behold, you shall conceive in your womb and bear a son; and you shall call his name Jesus.

and came on the eighth day to circumcise the child. They were about to call him "Zachariah," after his father,

Then they asked his father by signs what he wished to call the child.

I am not come to call the righteous but sinners, to repentance."

"For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute;

"But I say to you who are my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

That very day there came some Pharisees to him, saying, "Get out of here and go away, for Herod wishes to kill you."

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"'Bring that fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry,

"And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham have mercy on me; and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.'

"and they will scourge and kill him; and the third day he will rise again."

"But when the vine-dressers saw him, they reasoned together, saying. 'This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours.'

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and then come here."

After these things Jesus continued to travel about in Galilee, for he did not wish to go about in Judea, because the Jews kept trying to kill him.

"Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"

The crowd answered. "You have a demon! Who is trying kill you?"

Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?

Then the Jews said: "He will not kill himself, will he? Is that why he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"

"I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you.

"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and smeared the clay on the man's eyes.

He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight."

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes;

so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see."

"The thief never comes except to steal and kill and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it in abundance.

With these words she went away to call her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

So from that day they plotted to kill him.

And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too,

"Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am.

"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

"For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are afar off, whomever the Lord may call."

When they heard this they were infuriated, and were minded to kill the apostles;

"'Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

"For I perceive that you still stand in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of unrighteousness."

"In this city, too, he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all those who call upon thy name."

And when many days were fulfilled the Jews made a plot to kill Saul;

He also used to hold conversations and debates with the Grecian Jews, but they kept trying to kill him.

A voice came to him, saying, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

To them he said: "You know, yourselves, that it is illegal for a Jew to associate with or to visit one of another nation; but God has taught me that I should not call any man common or unclean. For this reason, when sent for, I came without demur.

I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'

"But for the second time a voice spoke from the sky, 'What God has cleansed, you must not call common.'

And they began to call Barnabas "Zeus," and Paul, since he was the principal speaker, "Hermes";

The jailer, roused from sleep, and seeing the doors wide open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose against Paul, and brought him before the tribunal.

Paul was about to open his mouth, when Gallio said to the Jews. "If it had been some misdemeanor or wicked villainy, it would have been within reason for me to listen to you Jews;

Then they all laid hold of Sosthenes, the warden of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal; but Gallio took no notice.

On the following day we went with Paul to call on James, and all the elders were present.

While they were attempting to kill him, news came to the tribune commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

"Now do you and the Sanhedrin ask the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you would judge his case more exactly; and we are ready to kill him, before he comes near the place."

"But this I confess to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors, according to the Way which they call a heresy, believing everything that is according to the Law, or is written in the Prophets,

They urged him, asking it as a favor, to send for him to Jerusalem. They meant to lay in wait for him and kill him on the way.

"For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

Now the soldiers were planning to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim off and so escape.

Or has not the potter power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for noble, and another for ignoble uses?

As he also said in Hosea. Those who were not my people I will call "my people," And her "beloved" who was not beloved;

For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, because the same Lord Jesus is all over, and is rich unto all who call upon Him;

for Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

For no change of purpose can annul God's free gift and call.

to the Church of God at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all, wherever they are, who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.

For it has been plainly told me concerning you, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.

For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,

But for my part I call God to witness, as my soul shall answer for it, that it was to spare you that I came not to Corinth

(In what I am now writing, I call God to witness that I am telling the truth.)

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

Always call these truths to men's mind; adjuring them in the presence of God to avoid controversy. It is a useless thing, and subverts those who listen to it.

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for noble, some for ignoble uses.

Flee from the passions of youth, but run after righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who out of a pure heart call upon the Lord.

For both he who sanctifies and those whom he is sanctifying are all from One; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying.

But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

For he who said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not Kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, but if you do kill, you have transgressed the Law.

And since you call upon him as Father, who impartially judges each one according to his deeds, pass the time of your sojourning here in reverence.

So I will do my best to enable you, even after my departure, continually to call these things to mind.