But they understood none of these things; and this matter was hid from them, so that they knew not the things which were spoken.

Wherefore, brethren, look out from among you seven men of good character, full of the holy Spirit, and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this matter:

Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

But Peter began and laid the matter in order before them,

So the apostles and elders were assembled together to consider about this matter.

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some laughed at it: and others said, We will hear thee again concerning this matter.

Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him even before the tribunal: but Gallio did not concern himself about the matter.

I have therefore matter of glorying in Christ Jesus, as to the things of God.

Dare any of you, having a matter of complaint against another, try it before the unjust, and not before the saints?

If we then have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?

But let every one try his own work, and then he will have matter of glorying in himself alone, and not in another.

Now no chastening seems for the present to be matter of joy but of grief: and yet afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those that are exercised thereby.