But when the blade shoots up and the grain is formed, then appears the darnel also.

My former narrative, Theophilus, dealt with all that Jesus did and taught as a beginning, down to the day on which,

and didst say through the Holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David Thy servant, "'Why have the nations stamped and raged, and the peoples formed futile plans?

Now, when daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and solemnly swore not to eat or drink till they had killed Paul.

And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.

you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.

Such was the eternal purpose which He had formed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,

For Adam was formed first, and then Eve;

Remember your former leaders--it was they who brought you God's Message. Bear in mind how they ended their lives, and imitate their faith.

and has formed us into a Kingdom, to be priests to God, His Father--to Him be ascribed the glory and the power until the Ages of the Ages. Amen.

And hast formed them into a Kingdom to be priests to our God, And they reign over the earth."