So take care how you listen, for whoever gets more will have more given to him, and whoever does not get more will have even what he thinks he has taken away from him."

For consider, brothers, the way God called you; that not many of you, in accordance with human standards, were wise, not many influential, not many of high birth.

not as a slave any longer but more than a slave, a dearly loved brother, especially to me and much more to you, both as a servant and as a Christian.

but now His promise is, "Once more I will make not only the earth but heaven itself tremble." Now that expression, "Once more," signifies the final removal of the things that can be shaken, to let remain the things that cannot be shaken.

So I tell you, stop worrying about your life, as to what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear. Is not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothes?

Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, was it not in your name that we prophesied, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many wonder-works?'

The wild beast that you saw, once was but now is no more; he is going to come up out of the abyss, but he is going to be destroyed. The inhabitants of the earth, whose names from the foundation of the world have not been written in the book of life, will be astonished when they see that the wild beast once was but now is no more, and yet is to come.

Then Peter came up to Him and asked, "Lord, how many times may my brother wrong me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven?"

Jesus answered him: "I tell you, not as many as seven, but as many as seventy times seven!

But many who are first now will be last then, and many who are last now will be first then."

So stop being afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Then He began to censure the cities in which His many, many wonder-works had been done, because they did not repent.

The man who had received the five thousand dollars came up and brought him five thousand more, saying, 'You turned over to me five thousand dollars; here are five thousand more I made.'

for many will come bearing the name of the Messiah, and saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many people.

Many false prophets will appear and mislead many people;

and drove out many demons, and cured many sick people by anointing them with oil.

Then He charged them not to tell anybody about it, but the more He kept charging them, the more they kept spreading the news.

And He cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and would not let the demons speak a word, because they knew who He was.

Levi was at table in his house, and he had many tax-collectors and notorious sinners as guests, along with Jesus and His disciples, for there were many of them, and they began to follow Him.

Many will come bearing the name of Messiah, and saying, 'I am He,' and they will mislead many.

At that very hour He cured many people of diseases and scourges and evil spirits, and graciously granted sight to many blind persons.

Yes, the very hairs on your heads have all been counted by God! Stop being afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Your life is worth more than food, and your body more than clothes.

Then he came to himself and said, 'How many of my father's hired men have more to eat than they need, and here I am dying of hunger!

who will not receive in return many times more in this world, and in the next eternal life."

At that time you will ask me no more questions. I most solemnly say to you, the Father will give you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

With many more words he continued to testify and to plead with them to save themselves from that crooked age.

For many of those under the power of foul spirits cried out and the spirits came out of them, and many paralyzed and crippled people were cured.

But now, as there are no more places for me to occupy in this part of the world, and as I have for many years been longing to come to see you,

For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ.

After that, at one time He was seen by more than five hundred brothers, most of whom are still living, though some of them have fallen asleep.

because you are helping me by your prayers for me, so that thanks to God will be given by many on my behalf for God's gracious gift to me in answer to the prayers of many.

I send with them another brother of ours, whom I have often in many ways tested and found to be enthusiastic, but now he is more enthusiastic than ever, because of his great confidence in you.

through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, through many a fasting season, poorly clad and exposed to cold.

So in my own case, I will most happily spend my money and myself for your sakes. If I love you much more than I love others, am I to be loved less by you?

For the Scripture says: "Rejoice, you childless woman, who never bore a child; break forth into shouting, you who feel no birth pangs; for the desolate woman has many children, even more than the married one."

And it is my prayer that your love may overflow still more and more, directed by fuller knowledge and keener insight,