Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes?

Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more account than they?

But if God so beautifully dresses the wild grass, which is alive today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more surely clothe you, you who have so little faith?

"Pass no more judgments upon other people, so that you may not have judgment passed upon you.

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

You must not be afraid; you are worth more than a great many sparrows!

No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me,

Then why did you go out there? Was it to see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet!

And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! Therefore, it is right to do people good on the Sabbath."

Men of Nineveh will rise with this age at the judgment and condemn it, for when Jonah preached they repented, and there is more than Jonah here!

The queen of the south will rise with this age at the judgment and condemn it, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before. That is the way it will be with this present wicked age."

For people who have will have more given to them, and will be plentifully supplied, and from people who have nothing even what they have will be taken away.

And if he happens to find it, I tell you he rejoices more over it than he does over the ninety-nine that did not stray.

And when those who were hired first came they expected to get more, but they too got a dollar apiece.

and seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "No more fruit shall ever grow on you!" And the fig tree withered up at once.

Again he sent other slaves and more of them than he had sent at first, and they treated them in the same way.

And no one could make him any answer, and from that day no one ventured to ask him any more questions.

The man who had received the five thousand dollars immediately went into business with the money, and made five thousand more.

In the same way the man who had received the two thousand made two thousand more.

And the man who had received the five thousand dollars came up bringing him five thousand more, and said, 'Sir, you put five thousand dollars in my hands; here I have made five thousand more.'

And the man who had received the two thousand came up and said, 'Sir, you put two thousand dollars into my hands; here I have made two thousand more.'

for the man who has will have more given him, and will be plentifully supplied, and from the man who has nothing even what he has will be taken away.

Do you suppose I cannot appeal to my Father, and he would at once furnish me more than twelve legions of angels?

"Take care what you hear," he said to them. "The measure you give will be given to you, and even more besides.

For people who have will have more given them, and from people who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.

you let him off from doing anything more for his father or mother,

And Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more they spread the news far and wide.

And he spoke to the tree and said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you any more!" And his disciples heard it.

and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

And Jesus saw that he answered thoughtfully, and he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God!" And no one ventured to ask him any more questions.

And he called his disciples to him and said, "I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all these others who have been putting money into the treasury.

It might have been sold for more than sixty dollars, and the money have been given to the poor."

He said to them, "Do not collect any more than you are authorized to."

Yet the news about him spread more and more, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

So Jesus went with them. But when he was not far from the house, the captain sent some friends to him, to say to him, "Master, do not take any more trouble, for I am not a suitable person to have you under my roof.

Then what did you go out there to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet!

As they could not pay him, he canceled what they owed him. Now which of them will be more attached to him?"

So take care how you listen. For people who have will have more given to them, and from people who have nothing, even what they think they have will be taken away."

Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more."

The next day he took out a dollar and gave it to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will refund to you on my way back.'

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!"

Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before."

The queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation at the Judgment and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

Men of Nineveh will rise with this generation at the Judgment and will condemn it, for they repented at Jonah's preaching, and there is more than Jonah here.

I tell you, who are my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body, and after that can do no more.

But the very hairs on your heads are all counted! You must not be afraid, you are worth more than a great many sparrows!

Life is more important than food, and the body than clothes.

Think of the crows! They do not sow or reap, and they have no storehouses or barns, and God feeds them. How much more you are worth than the birds!

But if God so dresses the wild grass, which is alive today, and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more surely will he clothe you, who have so little faith?

But one who does wrong without knowing them will be lightly punished. From anyone who has been given much, much will be required, and of the man to whom people have intrusted much, they will demand even more.

He answered, 'Let it stand this one year more, sir, till I dig around it and manure it;

"When someone invites you to a wedding supper, do not take the best place, for someone more distinguished than you are may have been invited,

I tell you, in just that way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinful person who repents, than over ninety-nine upright people who do not need any repentance.

When he came to himself he said, 'How many hired men my father has, who have more than enough to eat, and here I am, dying of hunger!

The apostles said to the Master, "Give us more faith."

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the coming age eternal life."

They said to him, 'He has two hundred, sir!'??26 'I tell you, the man who has will have more given him, and from the man who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away!

So they could not fasten on what he said before the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and said nothing more.

For they did not dare to ask him any more questions.

And he said, "I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all the rest.

The wine gave out, and Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine!"

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting.

And a great many more believed because of what he said,

On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

But many of the people believed in him, and said, "Will the Christ show more signs when he comes than this man has shown?"

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

What my Father has intrusted to me is of more importance than everything else, and no one can tear anything out of the Father's hands.

for they cared more for the approval of men than for the approval of God.

In a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will still see me, because I shall live on, and you will live on too.

I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil genius of the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me,

Any branch of mine that does not bear fruit he trims away, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit, to make it bear more.

I have much more to tell you, but you cannot take it in now,

I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

When Pilate heard that, he was more frightened than before

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"

He said much more besides in giving his testimony, and urged them to save themselves from that crooked age.

Yet I know, brothers, that you did not know what you were doing, any more than your leaders did;

for the man on whom this wonder of healing had been done was more than forty years old.

As the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise God had made to Abraham, the people became more and more numerous in Egypt,

When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord hurried Philip away, and the eunuch saw nothing more of him. Full of joy, he went on with his journey,

But Saul grew more and more powerful, and bewildered the Jews who lived in Damascus by his proofs that Jesus was the Christ.

The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

He spoke very confidently in the synagogue at first, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the Way of God to him more correctly.

When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he said,

There were more than forty of them involved in this plot,

Now you and the council must suggest to the colonel that he should have Paul brought down to you, as you mean to look into his case more carefully, and we will be ready to kill him before he gets down."

But do not let them persuade you, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him, and they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, and are only waiting to get your promise."

for it is not more than twelve days ago, as you can easily satisfy yourself, that I went up to worship at Jerusalem,

But the officer was more influenced by the pilot and the captain than by what Paul had to say,

More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance,

So if we have already been made upright by his death, it is far more certain that through him we shall be saved from God's anger!

If, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, it is far more certain that now that we are reconciled we shall be saved through sharing in his life!

More than that, we actually glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom we owe our reconciliation.

But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

for we know that Christ, once raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more hold on him.