and said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down, for the Scripture says, " 'He will give his angels orders about you, And they will lift you up with their hands So that you may never strike your foot against a stone!' "

For I tell you that unless your uprightness is far superior to that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

I tell you, you will never get out again until you have paid the last penny!

and yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them.

Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!'

But he said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his companions were hungry?

Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath?

They are a fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy, " 'You will listen and listen, and never understand, And you will look and look, and never see!

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!'

And Peter took him aside and began to reprove him for it, saying, "God bless you, Master! that can never happen to you!"

and he said, "I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven at all.

But he answered, "Did you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female,

and said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'You have drawn praise from the mouths of children and infants'?"

Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; This came from the Lord, And seems marvelous to us'?

But as to the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was said to you by God,

For I tell you, you will never see me again until you say, 'Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!' "

Earth and sky will pass away but my words will never pass away.

The Son of Man is to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"

And I tell you I will never drink this product of the vine again till the day when I shall drink the new wine with you in my Father's kingdom!"

Peter answered, "If they all desert you, I will never do it!"

Peter said to him, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you!" All the disciples said so too.

At that same time Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as though I were a robber? Day after day I have sat in the Temple preaching, and you never seized me.

And he got up, and immediately picked up his mat and went out before them all, so that they were all astonished and acknowledged the power of God, saying, "We never saw anything like this before."

He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he was in need and hungry, he and his men?

But whoever reviles the holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of an unending sin."

Then Jesus, seeing that a crowd was rapidly gathering, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never enter him again!"

where the worm that feeds upon them never dies and the fire is never put out.

and said to them, "Go to the village that lies in front of you, and as soon as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

Did you never read this passage of Scripture: " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone;

But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

for there will be such misery in those days as there has never been since the beginning of God's creation until now, and never will be again.

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

I tell you, I will never drink the product of the vine again till the day when I shall drink the new wine in the Kingdom of God."

But he persisted vehemently, "If I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And they all said the same thing.

I have been among you day after day in the Temple teaching, and you never seized me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled!"

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

and, 'They will lift you up with their hands, so that you may never strike your foot against a stone.' "

But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked.

See how the lilies grow. They do not toil or spin, but, I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them.

Sell what belongs to you, and give away the money! Get yourselves purses that will never wear out, inexhaustible riches in heaven, where thieves cannot get near nor moths destroy.

I tell you, you will never get out again until you have paid the last cent!"

Now I leave you to yourselves. And I tell you, you will never see me again until you say, 'Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!' "

And he said to his father, 'Here I have served you all these years, and have never disobeyed an order of yours, and you have never given me a kid, so that I could entertain my friends.

and said to them, "Go to the village that lies in front of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

For I tell you, I will never eat one again until it reaches its fulfilment in the Kingdom of God."

When I was among you day after day in the Temple you never laid a hand on me! But you choose this hour, and the cover of darkness!"

for a time is coming when they will say, 'Happy are the childless women, and those who have never borne or nursed children!'

The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and marvels you will never believe!"

and my Father who has sent me has thus borne witness to me. You have never heard his voice or seen his form,

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

They answered, "We are descended from Abraham, and have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

I tell you, if anyone observes my teaching, he will never experience death."

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

yet you have never come to know him. But I know him. If I say I do not know him, I will be a liar like yourselves. No! I do know him, and I am faithful to his message.

It was never heard of in this world that anyone made a man born blind able to see.

But they will never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because they do not know the voices of strangers."

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

Peter said to him, "I will never let you wash my feet!" Jesus answered, "You will have no share with me unless I wash you."

So the rest of the disciples said to him, "We have seen the Master!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the marks of the nails in his hands, and put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it!"

But Peter said, "Never, sir! For I have never eaten anything that was not ceremonially cleansed."

But I said, 'Never, sir! For nothing that was not ceremonially cleansed has ever passed my lips.'

and said, "You monster of underhandedness and cunning! You son of the devil! You enemy of all that is right! Will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked?

Now as evidence that he has raised him from the dead, never again to return to decay, he said this: 'I will fulfil to you my sacred promises to David.'

" 'Look, you scoffers! Then wonder and begone! For I am doing something in your times Which you will never believe even when it is related to you!' "

In the streets of Lystra a man used to sit who had not the use of his feet. He had been lame from his birth, and had never been able to walk.

so that they might search for God, and perhaps grope for him and find him, though he is never far from any of us.

he said to them, "Did you receive the holy Spirit when you became believers?" "No," they said to him, "we never even heard that there was a holy Spirit."

I never shrank from telling you anything that was for your good, nor from teaching you in public or at your houses,

So you must be on your guard and remember that for three years, night and day, I never stopped warning any of you, even with tears.

I have never coveted anyone's gold or silver or clothes.

for they were especially saddened at his saying that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

and they have never found me debating with anyone in the Temple, or creating a disturbance among the people in the synagogues or about the city,

" 'Go to this Nation and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, And you will look, and look, and never see!

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!" '

As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

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

Then what shall we conclude? That the Law is sin? Certainly not! Yet, if it had not been for the Law, I should never have learned what sin was; I should not have known what it was to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

But how are they to call upon him if they have not believed in him? And how are they to believe him if they have never heard him? And how are they to hear unless someone preaches to them?

But what is God's reply? "I have left myself seven thousand men who have never knelt to Baal!"

Love never wrongs a neighbor, and so love fully satisfies the Law.

Therefore let us not criticize one another any more. You must resolve instead never to put any hindrance or obstacle in your brother's way.

As the Scripture says, "They who have never been told of him will see, And they who have never heard will understand!"

I am thankful that I never baptized any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

It is a wisdom unknown to any of the authorities of this world, for otherwise they would never have crucified our glorious Lord.

But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."

Now, brothers, for your benefit I have applied all this only to Apollos and myself, by using us as illustrations to teach you the old lesson, "Never go beyond the letter," and to keep any of you from boasting of one teacher at the expense of another.

Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Am I then to take away from Christ parts of his body, and make them parts of a prostitute's? Never!

If you were a slave when you were called, never mind. Even if you can gain your freedom, make the most of your present condition instead.

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother fall, I will never eat meat again, rather than make my brother fall.

If others enjoy such rights over you, have we not a still better claim? But, you say, we have never availed ourselves of this right. No, we will stand anything rather than put any hindrance in the way of the good news of the Christ.

Any man who enters an athletic contest goes into strict training, to win a wreath that will soon wither, but the one we compete for will never wither.

Love will never die out. If there is inspired preaching, it will pass away. If there is ecstatic speaking, it will cease. If there is knowledge, it will pass away.

and we are found guilty of misrepresenting God, for we have testified that he raised Christ, when he did not do it, if it is true that the dead are never raised.

For if the dead are never raised, Christ was not raised;

You foolish man, the very seed you sow never comes to life without dying first;

So since by the mercy of God I am engaged in this service, I never lose heart.