But his mother said, "Never! But he must be named John."

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

Then some soldiers too were asking him, "What ought we too to do?" So he said to them, "Never extort money from anyone, never make a false accusation, and always be satisfied with your wages."

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

Jesus answered them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his soldiers became hungry?

Then stop criticizing others, and you will never be criticized; stop condemning others, and you will never be condemned.

"For there never is a healthy tree that bears poor fruit, nor a sickly tree that bears good fruit.

So I tell you, my friends, never be afraid of those who kill the body but after that have nothing more that they can do.

Now when they are bringing you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, never worry about how to defend yourselves, or what to say,

Sell your property and give to charity. Provide for yourselves purses that will never wear out, riches that never fail in heaven, where a thief cannot come near nor a moth destroy,

I tell you, you will never get out of it until you have paid the last penny!"

Now your house is abandoned to its fate! And I tell you, you will never see me again until you say, 'Blessed be He who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding supper, never take the best place, for someone of greater distinction than you may have been invited,

But he answered his father, 'See! I have served you all these years and have never disobeyed a command of yours, but you have never given me even a kid, so that I could celebrate with my friends.

Now He told them the following story to show how necessary it is for people always to pray and never to give up:

I solemnly say to you, Whoever does not accept the kingdom of God as a little child does, will never get into it at all."

He will come and put those tenants to death and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "May it never be so!"

And when you hear of wars and tumults, never be panic-stricken. For this has to take place first, but the end will not come all at once."

Sky and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

For I tell you, I shall never again eat one until it finds its full fruition in the kingdom of God."

While I was among you day after day in the temple, you never laid a hand on me! But this is your opportunity, even the power which darkness gives you!"

For a time is coming when people will say, 'Happy are the women who are childless, and the women who have never borne and nursed babies!'