A leper came up and knelt before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me";

Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,

A leper came to him beseeching him on bended knee, saying, "If you only choose, you can cleanse me;"

Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head.

When a woman is in labour she is sorry, for her time has come; but when the child is born she remembers her anguish no longer, for joy that a human being has been born into the world:

Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers ??27 through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

Why, you make me afraid I may have spent my labour on you for nothing!

I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.

Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.