For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?

"That, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people that will produce its proper fruit.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David,

We know that God does not listen to sinful people, but if a man is devout and obeys God, God will listen to him.

and God will through himself honor him; he will honor him immediately.

Moses said, 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, as he raised me up. You must listen to everything that he tells you.

This was the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will make a prophet rise from among your brothers to teach you, just as he made me rise.'

Now I know perfectly well that none of you among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God will ever see my face again.

Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you white-washed wall! Do you sit there to try me by the Law, and order them to strike me in violation of the Law?"

But in your obstinacy and impenitence you are storing up wrath for yourself on the Day of Wrath, when the justice of God will burst forth.

Brothers, my heart is full of good will toward them; my prayer to God is that they may be saved.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is sacred, and that is what you are.

It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

But as it is brothers, if I come back to you and speak ecstatically, what good will I do you, unless I have some revelation or special knowledge or message or teaching to give you?

For I know that if this earthly tent that I live in is taken down, God will provide me a building in heaven to live in, not built by human hands but eternal.

So I have thought it necessary to ask these brothers to go on to you ahead of me, to arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so as to have it ready, like an expression of your good will, not of your avarice.

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching the Christ from jealousy and partisanship, but there are others who are doing it out of good-will.

For it is God who in his good will is at work in your hearts, inspiring your will and your action.

Let as many of us therefore as are mature have this attitude. If you have any different attitude, God will make this clear to you.

My God will gloriously supply all your needs with his wealth, through your union with Christ Jesus.

You will testify, and God will, how pure and upright and irreproachable our relations were with you who believed.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then by means of Jesus God will bring back with him those who have fallen asleep.

so that the man of God will be adequate, and equipped for any good work.

Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

We are God's children. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not a child of God will not listen to us. In this way we can tell what is inspired by truth from what is inspired by error.

for the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

There will no longer be any night and they will have no need of lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.

I warn everyone who hears the message of prophecy in this book read, that if anyone adds anything to it, God will inflict upon him the plagues that are described in this book;

and if anyone removes from this book any of the prophetic messages it contains, God will remove from him his share in the tree of life and the holy city which are described in this book.

A good man, out of the good he has accumulated, brings out things that are good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, brings out things that are bad.

A good man, out of the good he has accumulated in his heart, produces good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, produces what is bad. For his mouth says only what his heart is full of.

But someone may say, "You have faith, and I good deeds." Show me your faith without any good deeds, and I will show you my faith by my good deeds.