So the disciples went and woke him up, saying, "Help, Lord, we are drowning!"

"Woe to you, Khorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

my yoke is kindly and my burden light."

My heavenly Father will do the same to you unless you each forgive your brother from the heart."

When those who had been hired about five o'clock came, they got a shilling each.

So when the first labourers came up, they supposed they would get more; but they too got each their shilling.

to one he gave twelve hundred pounds, to another five hundred, and to another two hundred and fifty; each got according to his capacity. Then the man went abroad.

They were greatly distressed at this, and each of them said to him, "Lord, surely it is not me."

Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

At the close of the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

He was sleeping on the cushion in the stern, so they woke him up saying, "Teacher, are we to drown, for all you care?"

And he woke up, checked the wind, and told the sea, "Peace, be quiet." The wind fell and there was a great calm.

But they were overawed and said to each other, "Whatever can he be, when the very wind and sea obey him?"

It is like a man leaving his house to go abroad; he puts his servants in charge, each with his work to do, and he orders the porter to keep watch.

Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

Then they crucified him and distributed his clothes among themselves, drawing lots for them to decide each man's share.

and very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, after sunrise.

(a) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala out of whom he had cast seven daemons.

So everyone went to be registered, each at his own town,

each tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

they went and woke him up. "Master, master," they cried, "we are drowning!" So he woke up and checked the wind and the surf; they ceased and there was a calm.

Woe to you, Khorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have been sitting penitent in sackcloth and ashes.

Or, if asked for an egg, will he hand him a scorpion?

The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink?

The factor said to himself, 'What am I to do, now that my master is taking the factorship away from me? I am too weak to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'

He first called his ten servants, giving them each a five-pound note, and telling them, 'Trade with this till I come back.'

On the sabbath they rested in obedience to God's command, but on the first day of the week at early dawn they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.

Our own hope was that he would be the redeemer of Israel; but he is dead, and that is three days ago!

Now six stone water-jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of 'purification,' each holding about twenty gallons.

So the disciples asked each other, "Can anyone have brought him something to eat?"

The disciples looked at each other, at a loss to know which of them he meant.

there they crucified him, along with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

Now when the soldiers crucified Jesus they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. But as the tunic was seamless, woven right down in a single piece,

On the first day of the week Mary of Magdala went early to the tomb, when it was still dark; but as she saw the boulder had been removed from the tomb,

On the evening of that same day ??the first day of the week ??though the disciples had gathered within closed doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!"

They saw tongues like flames distributing themselves, one resting on the head of each,

So when this sound was heard, the multitude gathered in bewilderment, for each heard them speaking in his own language.

Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native tongue?

"Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.

who must be kept in heaven till the period of the great Restoration. Ages ago God spoke of this by the lips of his holy prophets;

It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

laying the money before the feet of the apostles; it was then distributed according to each individual's need.

"Three days ago," said Cornelius, "at this very hour I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when a man stood before me in shining dress,

So the disciples put aside money, as each of them was able to afford it, for a contribution to be sent to the brothers in Judaea.

But an angel of the Lord flashed on him, and a light shone in the cell; striking Peter on the side he woke him, saying, "Quick, get up!" The fetters dropped from his hands,

Well now, why are you trying to impose a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we ourselves could bear?

meaning them to seek for God on the chance of finding him in their groping for him. Though indeed he is close to each one of us,

On the first day of the week we met for the breaking of bread; Paul addressed them, as he was to leave next day, and he prolonged his address till midnight

So be on the alert, remember how for three whole years I never ceased night and day to watch over each one of you with tears.

Then Paul associated himself with the men next day; he had himself purified along with them and went into the temple to give notice of the time when the days of purification would be completed ??the time, that is to say, when the sacrifice could be offered for each one of them.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer! He has escaped the sea, but Justice will not let him live."

where we came across some of the brotherhood, who invited us to stay a week with them. In this way we reached Rome.

(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples.

While one man has enough confidence to eat any food, the man of weak faith only eats vegetables.

Each of us then will have to answer for himself to God.

Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at.

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

Each of us must please his neighbour, doing him good by building up his faith.

By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ."

No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong;

Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are simply used by God to give you faith, each as the Lord assigns his task.

Still, though planter and waterer are on the same level, each will get his own wage for the special work that he has done.

but in every case the nature of his work will come out; the Day will show what it is, for the Day breaks in fire, and the fire will test the work of each, no matter what that work may be.

So do not criticize at all; the hour of reckoning has still to come, when the Lord will come to bring dark secrets to the light and to reveal life's inner aims and motives. Then each of us will get his meed of praise from God.

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

Suppose anyone sees you, a person of enlightened mind, reclining at meat inside an idol's temple; will that really 'fortify his weak conscience'? Will it not embolden him to violate his scruples of conscience by eating food that has been offered to idols?

He is ruined, this weak man, ruined by your 'enlightened mind,' this brother for whose sake Christ died!

to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means.

Each of us must consult his neighbour's interests, not his own.

Each receives his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

But all these effects are produced by one and the same Spirit, apportioning them severally to each individual as he pleases.

As it is, God has set the members in the body, each as it pleased him.

Very well then, brothers; when you meet together, each contributes something ??a song of praise, a lesson, a revelation, a 'tongue,' an interpretation? Good, but let every thing be for edification.

But each in his own division: ??Christ the first to be reaped; after that, all who belong to Christ, at his arrival.

God gives it a body as he pleases, gives each kind of seed a body of its own.

On the first day of the week let each of you put aside a sum from his weekly gains, so that the money may not have to be collected when I come.

for we have all to appear without disguise before the tribunal of Christ, each to be requited for what he has done with his body, well or ill.

My opponent says, 'Paul's letters are weighty and telling, but his personality is weak and his delivery is beneath contempt.'

And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches.

Who is weak, and I do not feel his weakness? Whose faith is hurt, and I am not aglow with indignation?

If there is to be any boasting, I will boast of what I am weak enough to suffer!

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. In the body or out of the body? That I do not know: God knows.

It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

For I am afraid I may perhaps come and find you are not what I could wish, while you may find I am not what you could wish; I am afraid of finding quarrels, jealousy, temper, rivalry, slanders, gossiping, arrogance, and disorder ??21 afraid that when I come back to you, my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn for many who sinned some time ago and yet have never repented of the impurity, the sexual vice, and the sensuality which they have practised.

I warned you already, on my second visit, and I warn you now before I come, both you who sinned some time ago and the rest of you as well, that I will spare no one if I come back.

That will prove to you that I am indeed a spokesman of Christ. It is no weak Christ you have to do with, but a Christ of power.

For though he was crucified in his weakness, he lives by the power of God; and though I am weak as he was weak, you will find I am alive as he is alive by the power of God.

I am glad to be weak if you are strong; mend your ways, that is all I ask.

with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.

(whereas, if you snap at each other and prey upon each other, take care in case you destroy one another).

Even if anyone is detected in some trespass, brothers, you are spiritual, you must set the offender right in a spirit of gentleness; let each of you look to himself, in case he too is tempted.

But each one of us is granted his own grace, as determined by the full measure of Christ's gift.

as the entire Body is welded together and compacted by every joint with which it is supplied, the due activity of each part enables the Body to grow and build itself up in love.

Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.

be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.