Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

Do not sparrows sell two for a cent? And yet not one of them can fall to the ground against your Father's will!

and some fell on rocky ground where there was not much soil and it sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep,

And some fell on good soil, and yielded some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty-fold.

And what was sown upon the rocky soil means the man who hears the message and at once accepts it joyfully,

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go! Sell your property and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come back and be a follower of mine."

And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

As the bridegroom was slow in coming, they all grew drowsy and fell asleep.

And they went and set the guard and put a seal on the stone.

Some of it fell on rocky ground, and where there was not much soil, and it sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,

And some fell on good soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

And Jesus looked at him and loved him, and he said to him, "There is one thing that you lack. Go, sell all you have, and give the money to the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength.'

the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon,

And some fell on good soil, and grew up and yielded a hundred fold!" As he said this he called out, "Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!"

But the seed in the good soil means those who listen to the message and keep it in good, true hearts, and yield unfailingly.

So they set sail. As they sailed along, he fell asleep. And a squall of wind came down upon the lake, and they were being swamped and were in peril.

He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

Do not sparrows sell five for two cents? And yet not one of them is forgotten in God's sight.

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have great wealth stored up for years to come. Now take your ease; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself." '

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul will be demanded of you. Then who will have all you have prepared?'

Sell what belongs to you, and give away the money! Get yourselves purses that will never wear out, inexhaustible riches in heaven, where thieves cannot get near nor moths destroy.

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is one thing that you still lack. Sell all that you have, and divide the money among the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

He said to them, "But now, if a man has a purse let him take it, and a bag too. And a man who has no sword must sell his coat and buy one.

Then he said to them, "How foolish you are and how slow to believe all that the prophets have said!

His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

For you will not desert my soul in death, You will not let your Holy One be destroyed.

There was but one heart and soul in the multitude who had become believers, and not one of them claimed anything that belonged to him as his own, but they shared everything they had with one another.

No one among them was in any want, for any who owned lands or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sale

Peter said to her, "Tell me, did you sell the land for such and such a sum?" "Yes," she said, "that was it."

and dragged him out of the city and stoned him, the witnesses throwing down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles.

But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.

Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest,

and he fell to the ground. Then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?"

Saul's fellow-travelers stood speechless, for they heard the voice but could not see anyone.

The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called the Straight Street, and ask at the house of Judas for a man named Saul, from Tarsus, for he is there praying.

Ananias set out and went to the house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said to him, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

and, after taking some food, regained his strength. Saul stayed for some time with the disciples at Damascus,

But Saul grew more and more powerful, and bewildered the Jews who lived in Damascus by his proofs that Jesus was the Christ.

but Saul found out about the plot. They watched the city gates day and night, in order to kill him,

Then Barnabas went over to Tarsus to seek out Saul,

and this they did, sending it to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

When Barnabas and Saul had performed their mission to Jerusalem, they went back, taking John who was called Mark with them.

There were at Antioch in the church there a number of prophets and teachers??arnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the governor, and Saul.

As they were engaged in worshiping the Lord and in fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me, for the work to which I have called them."

He was attached to the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. He sent for Barnabas and Saul and asked them to let him hear God's message.

But Saul, who was also called Paul, was filled with the holy Spirit, and looked at him

Then they demanded a king and for forty years God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin.

He, having had such strict orders, put them into the inner cell, and fastened their feet in the stocks.

He had had some instruction about the Way of the Lord, and he talked with burning zeal and taught painstakingly about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.

where he stayed for three months. Just as he was going to sail for Syria, the Jews made a plot against him, and he made up his mind to return by way of Macedonia.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to lose any time in Asia, for he was hurrying to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of the Harvest Festival.

and I fell upon the ground and heard a voice say to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?'

came to see me, and standing by my side, said to me, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' Then instantly I regained my sight and looked at him,

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me? You cannot kick against the goad!'

When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were turned over to an officer of the Imperial regiment, named Julius.

For a number of days we made slow progress and had some difficulty in arriving off Cnidus. Then as the wind kept us from going on, we sailed under the lee of Crete, off Cape Salmone,

After hoisting it on board, they used ropes to brace the ship, and as they were afraid of being cast on the Syrtis banks, they lowered the sail, and let the ship drift.

They expected to see him swell up or suddenly fall dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

crushing distress and anguish, every human soul of them that actually does what is wrong??he Jew first, and the Greek also;

Eat anything for sale in the meat market without raising any question, as far as conscience is concerned,

and put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts, as earnest-money.

But upon my soul I call God to witness that it is simply to spare you that I have stayed away from Corinth.

You also have heard the message of the truth, the good news of your salvation, and believed in him, and through union with him you have been marked with the seal of the holy Spirit that was promised,

as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

For the message of God is a living and active force, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing through soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and keen in judging the thoughts and purposes of the mind.

I have much to say to you about this, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, because you have become so slow of apprehension.

You must understand this, my dear brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to be angry,

you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his misguided way will save the man's soul from death, and cover up a host of sins.

Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.

and saved the upright Lot who was so distressed by the immoral conduct of unprincipled men??8 for as long as that upright man lived among them, day after day his upright soul was tormented by what he saw and heard of their lawless actions??9 then the Lord knows how to rescue God-fearing people from trial and to punish wrongdoers while they are being kept for the Day of Judgment,

The Lord is not slow about his promise, in the sense that some men think; he is really showing his patience with you, because he does not want any to perish, but wishes all men to be brought to repentance.

Dear friend, it is my prayer that everything is going well with you and that you are well; I know it is well with your soul.

When he broke the second seal, I heard the second animal say, "Come!"

When he broke the third seal, I heard the third animal say, "Come!" And there I saw a black horse, and its rider had a pair of scales in his hand,

When he broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth animal say, "Come!"

When he broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who have been slaughtered on account of God's message and for adhering to the testimony.

When he broke the sixth seal I saw that there was a great earthquake. The sun turned black as sackcloth; the full moon became like blood;

Then I saw another angel ascend from the east with the seal of the living God, and he cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who had it in their power to harm the earth and the sea,

I heard that the number of those that were marked with the seal was 144,000. They were from every tribe of the children of Israel:

When he broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only the men who did not have the mark of God's seal upon their foreheads.

When the seven thunders had spoken I was going to write it down, but I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said! Do not write it down!"

and permits no one to buy or sell anything unless he bears the mark, that is, the animal's name or the number corresponding to its name.

The fruit of your soul's desire is gone, your luxury and splendor have perished, and people will never find them again.

"Do not seal up the words of prophecy that are in this book," he said to me, "for the time of their fulfilment is very near.