For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!'

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the largest of plants and grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. For I tell you, if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here over to there!' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

Some of the seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out, and it yielded no grain.

and had had a great deal of treatment from various doctors and had spent all that she had and had not been benefited at all but had actually grown worse,

Then he said, 'This is what I will do; I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store all my grain and my goods.

For if this is what they do when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."

That was why his parents said, "He is grown up; you must ask him."

When Jesus saw her weep and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, repressing a groan, and yet showing great agitation,

Again repressing a groan, Jesus went to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid against the mouth of it.

I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains just one grain. But if it dies, it yields a great harvest.

For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!" '

For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,

More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.

For you have grown rich in everything through union with him??n power of expression and in capacity for knowledge.

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

For in the Law of Moses it reads, "You shall not muzzle an ox that is treading out the grain." Is it about the oxen that God is concerned?

For the Scripture says, "You must not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain," and the workman deserves his wages.

No one who competes in the games is awarded a crown unless he obeys the rules.

Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.

But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.

Faith made Moses, when he was grown up, refuse to be known as a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he stands the test, he will be given the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

You show endurance; you have undergone much for my sake, and you have not grown weary.

Do not be afraid of what you are going to suffer. See! The devil is going to put some of you into prison to be tested there, and for ten days to endure persecution. Prove faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life.

I am coming soon. Keep hold of what you have, so that no one may deprive you of your crown.

Then I saw a white horse, and its rider carried a bow. He was given a crown, and he rode forth as a victor to conquer.

The first blew his trumpet, and there was a storm of hail and fire mixed with blood, and it fell upon the earth, and one third of the earth was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

Then a great portent appeared in the sky?? woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

Then I saw a white cloud, and seated on it a being like a man, with a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.

for after drinking the wine of the passion of her immorality all the heathen have fallen; the kings of the earth have joined in her idolatry, and the traders of the earth have grown rich from her excessive luxury!"

The dealers in these things, who had grown rich from their trade with her, for fear of her torture will stand a long way off, weeping and mourning,