and Josiah of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the period of the Babylonian Exile.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming?

But if your right eye makes you fall, tear it out and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all thrown into the pit!

If your right hand makes you fall, cut it off and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all go down to the pit!

And the news of this spread all over that part of the country.

But they went out and spread the news about him all over that part of the country.

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

and went to his own part of the country. And he taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished, and said, "Where did he get this wisdom, and the power to do these wonders?

When Jesus had finished this discourse, he left Galilee and went to the part of Judea that is on the other side of the Jordan.

You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

Leaving there he went, followed by his disciples, to his own part of the country.

On the first day of the festival of Unleavened Bread, on which it was customary to kill the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples said to him, "Where do you wish us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover supper?"

And when his period of service was over, he went back to his home.

So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

"For when John the Baptist came, he did not eat any bread or drink any wine, and you said, 'He has a demon!'

Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.

with his wife's connivance appropriated some of the price received, and brought only a part of it to put at the disposal of the apostles.

And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land?

And when there was a movement on the part of both the heathen and the Jews with the authorities to insult and stone them,

From there we went to Philippi, a Roman garrison town, and the principal place in that part of Macedonia. In this town we stayed for some days.

Knowing that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, Paul called out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees! It is for my hope for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"

The governor of the island, whose name was Publius, had estates in that part of the island, and he welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

For if he was made upright by what he did, it is something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God,

So as a follower of Christ Jesus I have reason to be proud of my work for God.

But now there is no more work for me in this part of the world, and as I have had a great desire for many years to come to see you,

So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

Hence anyone who eats the bread or drinks from the Lord's cup in a way that is unworthy of it will be guilty of profaning the body and the blood of the Lord.

A man should examine himself, and only when he has done so should he eat any of the bread or drink from the cup.

If the foot says, "As I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body.

And if the ear says, "As I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body.

as some of you have come to understand me, and that you will understand that you have a right to be proud of me, as I have of you, on the Day of our Lord Jesus.

I am not trying to recommend myself to you again. I am giving you cause to be proud of me, to use in answering men who pride themselves on external advantages and not on sincerity of heart.

To my shame I must admit that I was too weak for that sort of thing. But whatever anyone else dares to boast of?? am playing the part of a fool?? will dare to boast of too.

Through him every part of the building is closely united and grows into a temple sacred through its relation to the Lord,

For what hope or happiness shall we have or what prize to be proud of in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes, except you?

With these arrangements for worship, the priests used constantly to go into the outer part of the tent, in the performance of their rites,

But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary,

A brother of low position ought to be proud of his eminence,

no light of any lamp will ever shine in you again; no voice of bride or bridegroom will ever be heard in you again. For your merchants were the great men of the earth; by your magic all the heathen have been led astray,