Why should you worry about clothing? See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin,

A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!

and said to him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"

But he refused and went and had him put in prison until he should pay the debt.

So his master in his anger handed him over to the jailers, until he should pay all he owed him.

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.

so that " 'They may look and look and yet not see, And listen and listen and yet not understand, Lest possibly they should turn and be forgiven.' ",

Even as he spoke people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why should you trouble the Master any further?"

So they went out and preached that men should repent,

As they were going down the mountain, he cautioned them to let no one know what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead.

Some Pharisees came up, and in order to test him asked him whether a man should be allowed to divorce his wife.

Should we pay it, or refuse to pay it?" But he saw through their pretense, and said to them, "Why do you put me to such a test? Bring me a denarius to look at."

"Master," they said, "Moses made us a law that if a man's brother died, leaving a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

So you must be on the watch, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming??n the evening or at midnight or toward daybreak or early in the morning??36 for fear he should come unexpectedly and find you asleep.

Then they crucified him, and divided up his clothes, drawing lots for them to see what each of them should have.

That we should be delivered from the hands of our enemies,

And should serve him in holiness and uprightness, unafraid, In his own presence all our lives.

In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.

It had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he should not die without seeing the Lord's Messiah.

and he called two of them to him, and sent them to the Master to ask him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"

And the men went to him and said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?' "

But alas for you Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint, rue, and every tiny herb, and disregard justice and the love of God. But you should have observed these, without neglecting the others.

So if you cannot do the least good, why should you worry about the rest?

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

And he said to his disciples, "It is inevitable that hindrances should arise, but alas for the man who causes them!

"Master, Moses made us a law that if a man's brother die leaving a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

And Pilate pronounced sentence that what they asked for should be done.

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day,

and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name.

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

"You know nothing about it. You do not realize that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.

Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interest that one man should die for the people.

to carry out what your hand and will had destined should happen.

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?

So the Twelve called in the whole body of disciples and said to them, "It is not desirable that we should give up preaching the word of God to keep accounts.

He took advantage of our people and oppressed our forefathers, making them abandon their infant children, so that they should not live.

The next day, he came across two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. He said to them, 'You are brothers. Why should you injure each other?'

And he directed that they should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on there a few days.

and shouting, "Friends, why are you doing this? We are only human beings like you, and we bring you the good news that you should turn from these follies to a living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

This created a disturbance and a serious discussion between Paul and Barnabas and them, and it was agreed that Paul and Barnabas and some others of their number should go up to Jerusalem to confer with the apostles and elders about this question.

After a long discussion, Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose that of you all I should be the one from whose lips the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.

but we should write to them to avoid anything that has been contaminated by idols, immorality, the meat of strangled animals, and the tasting of blood.

When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We should like to hear you again on this subject."

the colonel ordered Paul brought into the barracks, and gave directions that he should be examined under the lash, so that he might find out why they made such an outcry against him.

Now you and the council must suggest to the colonel that he should have Paul brought down to you, as you mean to look into his case more carefully, and we will be ready to kill him before he gets down."

he said, "I will hear your case as soon as your accusers arrive." And he gave orders that he should be kept in Herod's palace.

"I should like to hear the man myself," Agrippa said to Festus. "You shall hear him tomorrow," Festus answered.

Why do you all think it incredible that God should raise the dead?

but first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem and then all over Judea, and even to the heathen I preached that they must repent and turn to God and live as men who have repented should.

and he was afterward given the mark of circumcision as the stamp of God's acknowledgment of the uprightness based on faith that was his before he was circumcised, so that he should be the forefather of all who, without being circumcised, have faith and so are credited with uprightness,

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants that the world should belong to him did not come to him or his descendants through the Law, but through the uprightness that resulted from his faith.

Then what shall we conclude? That the Law is sin? Certainly not! Yet, if it had not been for the Law, I should never have learned what sin was; I should not have known what it was to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

and the command that should have meant life in my case proved to mean death.

In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit itself pleads for us with inexpressible yearnings,

For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.

Welcome her as a Christian, as God's people should welcome one another, and give her whatever help she may need from you. For she has herself been a protection to many, including myself.

So no one should boast about men. For it all belongs to you??22 Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, the future??ll of it belongs to you.

I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another.

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

In just that way the Lord directed that those who preach the good news should get their living from it.

Now these things happened to warn us, so that we should not long for what is evil as they did.

No one should look after his own advantage but after that of his neighbor.

his scruples, I say, not yours. For why should my liberty of action be limited by another's scruples?

If I give thanks for what I eat, why should I be denounced for eating what I give thanks over?

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

Therefore, the man who can speak ecstatically should pray for the power to explain what he says.

If they want to find out about anything, they should ask their husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

They have cheered my heart, and yours too. You should appreciate such men.

why should not the religion of the Spirit be attended with much greater splendor?

I am glad of it now; not because you had your feelings hurt, but because having them hurt led you to repent, for you took it as God meant you to do, so that you should not lose anything at all through me.

I repeat, no one should think me a fool, but if you do, show me at least the patience you would show a fool, and let me have my little boast like the others.

But I pray to God that you may not do wrong??ot to prove me equal to the test, but that you should do right even if I fail to stand it.

But they did not insist that even my companion Titus, although he was a Greek, should be circumcised,

On the contrary, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been intrusted with it for the Jews??8 for he who actuated Peter to be an apostle to the Jews also actuated me to be one to the heathen??9 and when they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the church, pledged Barnabas and me their co-operation, with the understanding that we should work among the heathen and they among the Jews.

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, right before them all, "If you live like a heathen, and not like a Jew, though you are a Jew yourself, why should you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

Then what about the Law? It was a later addition, designed to produce transgressions, until the descendant to which the promise was made should come, and it was enacted by means of angels, through an intermediary;

and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ??11 the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,

There must be no indecency or foolish or scurrilous talk??ll that is unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead.

so that in the name of Jesus everyone should kneel, in heaven and on earth and in the underworld,

and everyone should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, and thus glorify God the Father.

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality,

But you are not in darkness, brothers, so that that Day should surprise you like thieves.

We always have to thank God for you, brothers, as it is right that we should, because your faith is growing so wonderfully and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

They should first be tested, and afterward, if there is no fault to be found with them, they can serve as assistants.

No one under sixty years of age should be put on the list of widows. A widow must have been married but once,

Any Christian woman who has widowed relatives should look after them, and relieve the church, so that it can look after widows who are really dependent.

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice as much as they get, particularly those who work at preaching and teaching.

For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

And who was it to whom God made oath that they should not be admitted to his Rest, if it was not to those who had disobeyed him?

And why should I go on? For my time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

When our earthly fathers disciplined us we treated them with respect; should we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so have life?

Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

No one should think when he is tempted that his temptation comes from God, for God is incapable of being tempted by what is evil, and he does not tempt anyone.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

If any one of you is in trouble, he should pray. If any one is in good spirits, he should sing a hymn.