[Relocated to follow vs 20] Any tree that does not produce sound fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.

And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"

the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."

All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father ??nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, that is my brother and sister and mother."

When anyone hears the word of the Realm and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; that is the man who is sown 'on the road.'

he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.

So the servants of the owner went to him and said, 'Did you not sow good seed in your field, sir? How then does it contain weeds?'

When they reached Capharnahum, the collectors of the temple-tax came and asked Peter, "Does your teacher not pay the temple-tax?"

Woe to the world for hindrances! Hindrances have to come, but ??woe to the man by whom the hindrance does come!

that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know;

saying, "I did wrong in betraying innocent blood." "What does that matter to us?" they said, "it is your affair, not ours!"

But the others said, "Stop, let us see if Elijah does come to save him!" [Seizing a lance, another pricked his side, and out came water and blood.]

"What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

So when some scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with sinners and taxgatherers they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

Whoever does the will of God, that is my brother and sister and mother."

It does not enter his heart but his belly and passes from that into the drain" (thus he pronounced all food clean).

But he sighed in spirit and said, "Why does this generation demand a Sign? I tell you truly, no Sign shall be given this generation."

He said to them, "Elijah does come first, to restore all things; but what is written about the Son of man as well? This, that he is to endure great suffering and be rejected.

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name; but he does not follow us, and so we stopped him."

who does not get a hundred times as much ??in this present world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands, together with persecutions, and in the world to come life eternal.

One man ran off, soaked a sponge in vinegar, and put it on the end of a stick to give him a drink, saying, "Come on, let us see if Elijah does come to take him down!"

Then amazement came over them all; they talked it over among themselves, saying, "What does this mean? He orders the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!"

No sound tree bears rotten fruit, nor again does a rotten tree bear sound fruit:

For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know; he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of unbelievers.

The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink?

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;

whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? ??29 in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him,

"Which of you with a hundred sheep, if he loses one, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one till he finds it?

Or again, suppose a woman has ten shillings. If she loses one of them, does she not light a lamp and scour the house and search carefully till she finds it?

Does he thank the servant for doing his bidding?

I tell you, he will quickly see justice done to his elect! And yet, when the Son of man does come, will he find faith on earth?"

who does not receive ever so much more in this present world, and in the world to come life eternal."

But he looked at them and said, "Then what does this scripture mean? ??The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner.

"Show me a shilling. Whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied.

Whoever does accept it, certifies to the truth of God.

So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same.

that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

No, we know where this man comes from; but when the Christ does come, no one will know where he comes from."

Indeed many of the people believed in him, saying, "When the Christ does come, will he perform more Signs than this man?"

What does he mean by saying, 'You will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come'?"

others said, "He is the Christ"; but others said, "No, surely the Christ does not come from Galilee?

Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"

The attendants replied, "No man ever spoke as he does."

"But surely our Law does not condemn the accused before hearing what he has to say and ascertaining his offence?"

Now the slave does not remain in the household for all time; the son of the house does.

Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.

God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs up somewhere else, he is a thief and a robber;

The hired man, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, deserts them when he sees the wolf coming; he runs away, leaving the wolf to tear and scatter them,

Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If one walks during the day he does not stumble, for he sees the light of this world:

but if one walks during the night he does stumble, for the light is not in him."

Then Jesus said to them, "The Light will shine among you for a little longer yet; walk while you have the Light, that the darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.

I tell you this now, before it occurs, so that, when it does occur, you may believe.

he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit.

If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned.

I call you servants no longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing: I call you friends, because I have imparted to you all that I have learned from my Father.

So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me'? and, 'I go to the Father'?"

Jesus replied, "My realm does not belong to this world; if my realm did belong to this world, my men would have fought to prevent me being handed over to the Jews. No, my realm lies elsewhere."

Jesus replied, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you? Follow me yourself."

This started the report among the brotherhood that the said disciple was not to die. Jesus, however, did not say he was not to die; what he said was, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you?"

And yet the most High does not dwell in houses made by hands. As the prophet says,

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, as Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in shrines that are made by human hands;

The secretary of state then got the mob calmed down, and said to them, "Men of Ephesus, who on earth does not know that the city of Ephesus is Warden of the temple of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell from heaven?

but glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

All have swerved, one and all have gone wrong, no one does good, not a single one.

For what does scripture say? Abraham believed God and this was counted to him as righteousness.

Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does ??7 Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered!

(as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist.

But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.

It is not, of course, as if God's word had failed! Far from it! 'Israel' does not mean everyone who belongs to Israel;

and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),

"Then," you will retort, "why does he go on finding fault? Who can oppose his will?"

No, what it does say is this: ??The word is close to you, in your very mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach).

the magistrate is God's servant for your benefit. But if you do wrong, you may well be alarmed; a magistrate does not wield the power of the sword for nothing, he is God's servant for the infliction of divine vengeance upon evil-doers.

the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God.

Gaius, my host and the host of the church at large salutes you. Erastus the city-treasurer salutes you; so does brother Quartus.

for, although I am not conscious of having anything against me, that does not clear me. It is the Lord who cross-questions me on the matter.

For God's Reign does not show itself in talk but in power.

Thus both are right alike in marrying and in refraining from marriage, but he who does not marry will be found to have done better.

Whoever imagines he has attained to some degree of knowledge, does not possess the true knowledge yet;

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

Does a soldier provide his own supplies? Does a man plant a vineyard without eating its produce? Does a shepherd get no drink from the milk of the flock?

Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?

Man does not require to have a veil on his head, for he represents the likeness and supremacy of God; but woman represents the supremacy of man.

(Of course, in the Lord, woman does not exist apart from man, any more than man apart from woman;

If the foot were to say, 'Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body.

If the ear were to say, 'Because I am not the eye, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body.

which does not need to be paid to our more decorous parts. Yes, God has tempered the body together, with a special dignity for the inferior parts,

Otherwise, suppose you are blessing God in the Spirit, how is the outsider to say 'Amen' to your thanksgiving? The man does not understand what you are saying!