The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:

And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and search diligently for the young child, and when you have found him, bring back word to me, so that I too may come and worship him."

nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the worker is worthy of his food.

So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you back.'

And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.

Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.

But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

When Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,

And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.

He commanded them to take nothing for the journey except a staffno bag, no bread, no money in their belts

If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.'"

And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

And let him who is in the field not go back to get his cloak.

they will pick up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover."

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And he opened the book, and found the place where it was written:

Then he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

Give to everyone who asks of you, and from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back.

And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much back.

Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you."

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.

When they had nothing with which to pay him back, he freely forgave them both. Now which of them will love him more?"

When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me!"

And he said to them, "Take nothing for the journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.

And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, "Teacher, I beg you to look upon my son, for he is my only child.

While he was coming, the demon threw him and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say farewell to those at my home."

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road.

The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.'

Then he also said to the one who invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers, your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.

So the servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in the poor and the maimed, the blind and the lame.'

The steward said to himself, 'What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

And he said, ' Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house,

Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice;

On that day, let him who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away. And likewise let him who is in the field not turn back.

For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

And he said to them, "When I sent you out with no purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."

He said to them, "But now, let him who has a purse take it, and likewise a bag; and let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one.

And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him; then, dressing him in a gorgeous robe, he sent him back to Pilate.

neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Behold, nothing deserving death has been done by him;

From this time many of his disciples went back and no longer walked with him.

The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

And he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Then, leaning back on the breast of Jesus, he said to him, "Lord, who is it?"

You have heard me say to you, 'I am going away and coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said, 'I am going to the Father,' for the Father is greater than I.

When he said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground.

Then the disciples went back to their homes.

Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;

In the first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach,

For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his homestead be made desolate, and let there be no one to dwell in it'; and, 'let another man take his office.'

And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful to beg alms of those who entered the temple.

and they recognized him as the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

and with his wife's full knowledge he kept back some of the money for himself, and brought only a part and laid it at the apostles' feet.

But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?

But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported back,

Then the captain went along with the officers and brought them back without violence, for they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned.

Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this duty.

They were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left.

And when our days there were ended, we left and started on our journey, while they all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying, we said farewell to one another.

Paul replied, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city; I beg you, let me speak to the people."

But, that I may not weary you further, I beg you in your kindness to hear us briefly.

because you are especially familiar with all customs and controversies of the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.

When day came, they could not recognize the land, but they did observe a bay with a beach, and they resolved to drive the ship onto it if they could.

So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders; then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach.

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

For if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree!

Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

I planned to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea.

We are therefore ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making his appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

I beg you that when I am present I may not have to be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing the party of the circumcision.

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to do them."

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things? Do you desire to be enslaved all over again?

Brethren, I beg you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong;

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

Yes, and I ask you also, true yoke-fellow, to help these women who have struggled at my side in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

For he who does wrong will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we beg you, brethren,

Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not to talk back to them,

I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.

Perhaps this is the reason he was separated from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,

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

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."

But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.

He considered that God was able to raise men even from the dead; from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

and the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further word be spoken to them.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out against you; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

My brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A dog turns back to its own vomit," and, "A sow, after having washed, returns to wallowing in the mire."

saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."

He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.