Therefore, whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on the rock:

And every one that hears these words of mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

And behold, a woman that had been diseased with an issue of blood for twelve years, came behind him, and touched the fringe of his mantle.

But when the blade sprung up, and produced fruit, then appeared the tares also.

And Jesus answered and said to him: Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah; for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

And I say to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.

Hear another parable: There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and rigged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went into another country.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.

Blind Pharisee! first make clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may be clean.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,

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 has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just to the blood of Zachariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many in order to the remission of sins.

and said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

saying: I have sinned in having delivered up innocent blood. They replied: What is that to us? You will see to that.

And the chief priests took the money, and said: It is not lawful to put it into the sacred treasury, because it is the price of blood.

For this reason, that field is called the field of blood, to this day.

When Pilate saw that he gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, and said: I am innocent of the blood of this just man; you will see to it.

And all the people answered and said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.

and saying: You that destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself; if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

For the earth, of its own accord, produces fruit, first the blade; then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

And a certain woman who had had an issue of blood for twelve years,

And immediately the fountain of her blood dried up, and she knew in her body that she was cured of that plague.

And ho 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 vine-dressers, and went into another country.

And he said to them: This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, and saying: Aha! you that destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

and arose, and drove him out of the city, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.

But he that hears, and does not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the torrent dashed with violence, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.

for he loves our nation, and of his own accord has built us a synagogue.

And a woman that had been afflicted with an issue of blood for twelve years, who had spent her whole living upon physicians, and could be cured by no one,

came behind, and touched the fringe of his mantle; and her issue of blood immediately ceased.

And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

Alas for you! for you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Therefore you attest and approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchers.

that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the temple; yes, I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and I will build larger ones; and there I will store ail my produce, and my good things;

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

For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down, and count the cost, whether he has the means to finish it?

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

In like manner also, the cup, after he had supped, saying: This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.

And he was in agony, and prayed more earnestly. And his sweat was like great drops of blood falling to the ground.

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

Then Jesus said to them: Verily, verily I say to you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood, has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day;

for my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him.

but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear; and immediately there came out blood and water.

And it was known to all that dwelt in Jerusalem, so that the field is called, in their own language, Akeldama, that is, The field of blood.

And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

saying: Did we not strictly charge you not to teach in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.

The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, built as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to build it, according to the pattern which he had seen:

But Solomon built him a house.

Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What house will -you build me? says the Lord; or what is the place of my rest?

And their plot was made known to Saul; and they watched the gates day and night, that they might kill him.

After this I will return, and build again the tabernacle of David which has fallen down; and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up;

but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness; from which if you keep yourselves carefully, you will do well. Farewell.

And he took them at that hour of the night, and washed the blood from their stripes; and he was immersed, himself and all his, immediately.

and he has made from one blood every nation of men, that they might dwell on all the face of the earth, having marked out their appointed times, and the bounds of their dwelling:

But when they set themselves in opposition, and reviled, he shook his clothing, and said to them: Your blood be upon your own head; I am clean. Henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

And having remained there three months, he determined to return through Macedonia, because a plot had been laid for him by the Jews, as he was about to sail to Syria.

For this reason I solemnly affirm to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all men.

Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace; to Him who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

But with respect to the Gentiles that believe, we have written; having decided that they should observe no such thing; but that they keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness.

and that when the blood of Stephen, thy witness, was shed, I also stood by and approved, and kept the clothing of those who slew him.

But the son of Paul's sister heard of the plot, and he went and entered the fortress, and told Paul.

And as I was informed that a plot was about to be laid against the man by the Jews, I immediately sent him to you, and commanded his accusers to say in your presence what they had against him. Farewell.

and, asking a favor against him, besought him that he would send and have him brought to Jerusalem, laying a plot to kill him on the road.

But the centurion had more confidence in the pilot, and in the owner of the ship, than in the things which were spoken by Paul.

their feet. are swift to shed blood;

whom God has set forth as a propitiatory sacrifice, through faith in his blood, in order to manifest his righteousness, in passing by the sins that were formerly committed through the forbearance of God;

much more, then, since we are now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through him.

But Isaiah is very bold, and says: I was found by them that sought me not: I was made manifest to them that asked not after me.

so earnestly desirous have I been to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;

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

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

Wherefore he that eats this bread, or drinks this cup of the Lord, in an improper manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

But he that prophesies speaks to men so as to build them up, to exhort and comfort them.

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

Now I, the same Paul, who, when present among you, am timid, but when absent, am bold toward you, entreat you, by the mildness and gentleness of Christ;

I, indeed, beseech you, that I may not, when present, be bold with that confidence with which I think I shall be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

I speak of their reproaches, as if we were weak. In what ever matter any one is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I also am bold.

to reveal his Sou in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I at once declined all conference with flesh and blood:

For if I build again those things which I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

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

but now, in Christ Jesus, you, who were formerly far off, have become near, by the blood of the Christ.

for our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the rulers of the darkness of this world, with the wicked spirits in the heavenly regions.

and most of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence in my bonds, are more bold to speak the word without fear.

and by him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace by the blood of his cross; by him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

rooted, and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

But having suffered before, and having been outraged, as you know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in the midst of great peril.

Since, then, the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also, in like manner, partook of the same, that, through his death, he might deprive of power him that has the power of death, that is, the devil;

For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.

But into the second, the high priest alone went, once during the year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

entered, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, once for all, into the most holy, having obtained eternal redemption.

For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, cleanses them as it respects the purity of the flesh,