And every man who is hearing these sayings of mine, and doth not practise them, he will resemble the foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

But when the blade was shot up, and produced fruit, then appeared also the zizane.

And Jesus replying, said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed this to thee, but my Father, who is in heaven.

And I tell thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Hear another parable: There was a certain man, the master of a family, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and hired it out to husbandmen, and went into a distant country.

Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchres of the just,

and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

that upon you may come all the righteous blood which hath been poured out upon the earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel, to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

for this is my blood, that [blood] of the new testament, which is shed for many, for the remission of sins.

said, This fellow said, I am able to pull down the temple of God, and to build it up in three days.

saying, I have sinned, in betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

Then the chief priests taking up the silver pieces, said, It is not lawful to put them to the treasure destined for sacred uses, because it is the price of blood.

Therefore is that field called, The field of blood unto this day.

When Pilate saw that it was of no use to contend, but that rather a tumult was rising, he took water, and washed his hands before the people, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man: ye must answer for it.

Then all the people answering said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

and saying, Thou that canst pull down the temple, and build it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, descend from the cross.

for the earth, naturally prolific, beareth fruit; first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear.

And a certain woman, having a flux of blood twelve years,

And instantly the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was cured of her afflictive disease.

AND he began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and digged a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

We have heard him affirm, I will destroy this temple made with hands, and after three days I will build another not made with hands.

and rising up, dragged him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill, on which their city was built, in order to cast him down headlong:

But he that heareth, and doth not practice, is like a man who built his house on the earth without a foundation; against which the river rushed violently, and immediately it fell; and the crash of the fall of that house was great.

for he loveth our nation, and hath himself built us a synagogue.

And a woman, who had a flux of blood, for twelve years, who had spent all her substance on physicians, and could not get a cure from any;

coming behind him, touched the fringe of his garment; and instantly the flux of her blood stopped.

Wo unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Ye do indeed bear witness to, and with pleasure concur in your fathers' deeds; for they truly killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

that the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed since the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation:

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was slain between the altar and the temple: verily I tell you, It shall be required of this generation.

And he said, I will do this; I will take down my barns, and build them larger, and collect there all my crops, and my good things!

NOW there were some present at that time who informed him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

And the cup in like manner, after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

And being in an agony, he prayed with greater intenseness: and his sweat was as clots of blood falling on the ground.

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath life eternal: and I will raise him up at the last day.

For my flesh truly is meat, and my blood truly is drink.

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.

but one of the soldiers with his lance pierced his side, and immediately there gushed out blood and water.

And it was a fact known to all who dwelt at Jerusalem; so that this field is called in their own dialect, Aceldama, that is, The field of blood.

and I will perform prodigies in the heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and illustrious day of the Lord come.

saying, Did we not lay our strict injunction upon you, that you should not teach in this name? and, lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and would fain bring this man's blood upon us.

But Solomon built an house for him.

"Heaven is my throne, and earth the footstool for my feet: what kind of house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what place is there for my repose?

"After this will I return, and build again the tabernacle of David, that is fallen; and re-edify what hath been dug up from the foundation, and will set it upright again:

but that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idol [sacrifices], and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

that ye abstain from eating whatever is sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from whoredom: from which things carefully preserving yourselves, ye shall do well. Farewell.

And hath made from one man's blood all the nations of mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, fixing the predetermined periods of their existence, and the boundaries of their several abodes;

But as they continued opposing and blaspheming, he shook his garments, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am pure from it: from this moment will I go to the Gentiles.

Wherefore I appeal to you this day as witnesses that I am pure from the blood of all men.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed as shepherds the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.

Concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have already written, deciding that they should observe no such thing, except that they should guard themselves from idol sacrifices, and blood, and what is strangled, and from whoredom.

and when the blood of Stephen thy martyr was shed, I myself even stood by, and took delight in his execution, and guarded the garments of those who slew him.

But the centurion paid more attention to the master and to the pilot than to the things which were spoken by Paul.

their feet are swift to shed blood:

whom God hath proposed as the propitiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, in demonstration of his justice for the remission of past sins, through the patience of God;

Therefore much more, being justified already by his blood, shall we be saved by him from wrath.

But Isaiah is very bold, and saith, "I have been found by those who sought me not; I have become manifest to those who inquired not after me."

But I have in such manner endeavoured to preach the gospel, not where Christ's name had been heard, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

But if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, timbers, hay, stubble;

If any man's work which he hath built abide [the trial], he shall receive a reward.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

In like manner also he took the cup, after they had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

Wherefore, whosoever eateth of this bread, or drinketh the cup of the Lord unworthily, he is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God: neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

NOW I Paul myself exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who, when present, am indeed lowly among you, but being absent, am bold towards you.

But I pray, that when I am present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I purpose to act resolutely against some who think of us, as if we walked after the flesh.

I speak with reference to the reproach [cast on me], as though we were feeble; but wherein any man is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach the glad tidings of him to the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

For if I build up again the very same things which I have pulled down, I stamp myself a transgressor.

in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

but now in Christ Jesus, ye who formerly were far off, are become nigh by the blood of Christ.

built up on the foundation of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

by whom also ye have been built up together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

and very many of our brethren in the Lord, assuming confidence from my chains, are more abundantly bold, fearlessly to preach the word.

in whom we have redemption through his blood, and forgiveness of sins.

and by him to reconcile all things to himself, making peace by the blood of his cross: by him, I say, whether they be things on earth, or things in the heavens.

rooted and built up on him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict.

Seeing therefore that the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself, in exact resemblance, partook of the same, that by death he might destroy him who held the power of death, that is, the devil;

For this personage hath been counted worthy of higher glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built it, hath greater honour than the house.

For every house is built by some person; but he who is the architect of all things is God.

but into the second once in every year entered the high-priest alone, not without blood, which he offered for his own inadvertencies, and for those of the people:

nor by the blood of goats and of calves, but by his own blood, he entered once for all into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption.

For if the blood of bulls, and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the defiled sanctifieth to corporal purification,

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the eternal Spirit, offered up himself in sacrifice without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, that we may perform divine service to the living God?

Wherefore also that first testament was not consecrated without blood.

For when every command according to the law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

And the tabernacle also, and all the vessels employed in the divine service, he in like manner sprinkled with blood.

And almost all things are purified by blood according to the law, and without effusion of blood there is no remission of sin.

and not that he should often offer up himself in sacrifice, as the high-priest enters every year into the holies with blood not his own,

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin.

Having therefore, brethren, entire liberty of entrance into the holies by the blood of Jesus??20 a way, which he hath consecrated for us, newly opened, and giving life, through the vail, that is, his flesh;

by how much, think ye, shall he be counted worthy of more condign punishment who hath trampled on the Son of God, and regarded the blood of his testament, by which he was sanctified, as an unclean thing, and hath treated the gracious Spirit contumeliously?