And why should you worry about clothes? Look at the wild lilies and learn how they grow. They do not toil or spin;

and if the house should prove deserving, may your good wish for peace upon it come true, but if not, may your good wish bring peace to yourselves.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

"Are you the One who was to come, or should we keep on looking for a different one?"

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

And the master was enraged and turned him over to the official torturers, until he should pay the whole debt.

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

So they went out and preached that men should repent,

And while they were going down the mountain, He cautioned them not to tell anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead.

Some Pharisees came up, and to test Him they began to ask Him whether a man should be allowed to divorce his wife.

Should we pay it, or should we not?" Now because He saw their pretense, He said to them, "Why are you testing me so? Bring me a twenty-cent coin to look at."

Now when they take you to court for trial, do not be worrying beforehand about what you should say, but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you that will be speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Then they crucified Him and divided among them His clothes, by drawing lots for them to see which piece each of them should have.

Now 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.

So John called two of them to him and sent them to the Lord, to ask, "Are you the One who was to come, or should we continue to look for someone else?"

So 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 continue to look for someone else?'"

Now as the time was coming to a head when He should be taken up to heaven, He firmly set His face to continue His journey to Jerusalem;

So if you cannot do this very little thing, why should you worry about the rest?

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my dearly loved son. They will, I should think, respect him.'

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us a law that, if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should take the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

There arose also among them a contention as to which one of them should rank as greatest.

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

and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem

I have come in my Father's name, but you refuse to accept me. If anyone else should come in his own name, you would accept him.

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

Even if I should judge, my decision is fair, because I am not alone, but there are two of us, I and the Father who has sent me.

His parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone owned Jesus as the Christ, he should be shut out of the synagogues.

Jesus said to her, "Did I not promise you that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?"

you do not take into account that it is for your own welfare that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should be destroyed."

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.

Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need that anyone should ask you questions. For this reason we believe that you have come from God."

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

But in this way God fulfilled what He by the lips of all the prophets foretold, that the Christ should suffer.

So the Twelve called together the whole body of the disciples, and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave off preaching the word of God to wait on tables.

By taking a cunning advantage of our race he oppressed our forefathers by forcing them to expose their infants so that they should not live.

The next day he showed himself to two of them engaged in a fight, and he tried to get them to make friends, saying, 'You are brothers, why should you harm each other?'

So, as a dire disturbance and a serious discussion had been created between Paul and Barnabas and them, they decided that Paul and Barnabas and some others from their number should go up to Jerusalem to confer with the apostles and elders about this question.

After a lengthy discussion Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose among you that through me the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.

but we should write them to abstain from everything that is contaminated by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from tasting blood.

"I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa to Festus. "Tomorrow you shall hear him," said Festus.

Why is it considered incredible by all of you that God should raise the dead?

As I have gotten help from God clear down to this very day, I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a syllable to what Moses and the prophets said should take place,

if the Christ should suffer, and by being the first to rise from the dead was to proclaim the light to the Jewish people and to the heathen."

When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they turned over Paul and some other prisoners to a colonel of the imperial regiment, named Julius.

you who teach others, do you not teach yourself too? You who preach that men should not steal, do you steal yourself?

Why should we not say, as people abusively say of us, and charge us with actually saying, "Let us do evil that good may come from it"? Their condemnation is just.

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants, that he should own the world, was not conditioned on the law, but on the right standing he had with God through faith.

So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire."

and so, in my case, the command which should have meant life turned out to mean death.

In the same way the Spirit, too, is helping us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself pleads for us with unspeakable yearnings,

For the civil authorities are God's servants to do you good. But if you practice doing wrong, you should dread them, for they do not wield the sword for nothing. Indeed, they are God's servants to inflict punishment upon people who do wrong.

Then why should you criticize your brother? Or, why should you look down on your brother? Surely, we shall all stand before God to be judged,

Now in this matter of trustees the first and final requirement is that they should prove to be trustworthy.

but because of so much sexual immorality every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

I mean this, brothers. The time has been cut short. For the future, men who have wives should live as though they had none,

No one should always be looking after his own welfare, but also that of his neighbor.

I mean his conscience, not yours. Why then should my personal freedom be limited by another's conscience?

A man, then, must examine himself, and only in this way should he eat any of the bread and drink from the cup.

If I should have the gift of prophecy, And know all secret truths, and knowledge in its every form, and have such perfect faith that I could move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

If I should dole out everything I have for charity, and give my body up to torture in mere boasting pride, but have no love, I get from it no good at all.

So if I do not know the meaning of the language, I should be a foreigner to the man who speaks it, and he would be a foreigner to me.

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

why should not this spiritual service be attended with much greater splendor?

I am glad of it now, not because you had such sorrow, but because your sorrow led you to repentance, for you took your sorrow in accordance with the will of God, so that you should not suffer any loss at all from me.

so that I insisted that Titus, as he had formerly commenced it, should bring to completion this gracious contribution among you too.

Such people should consider this: When I arrive for action I shall do exactly what I said I would in my letters when far away.

For I am not overstepping my authority as though I should not reach you, for I was the very first to reach as far as you with the good news of Christ.

But I am praying God that you may never do anything wrong, not to show that I am standing the test, but that you should continue doing right, though I should fail to stand the test.

and because they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, the so-called pillar apostles, gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, with the understanding that we should go to the heathen and they to the Jews.

Then what about the law? It was added later on to increase transgressions, until the descendant to whom the promise was made should come, enacted through the agency of angels in the person of an intermediary.

Everyone should test his own work until it stands the test, and then he will have ground for boasting with reference to himself alone, and not with reference to someone else.

Those who are taught the truth should share all their goods with the man who teaches them.

so that, at the coming of the climax of the ages, everything in heaven and on earth should be unified through Christ,

there must be no indecency, silly talk or suggestive jesting, for they are unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead.

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

and everyone should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the praise of God the Father.

Yes, He is the Head of the church as His body. For He is the beginning, the first-born among the dead, so that He alone should stand first in everything.

It is so because it was the divine choice that all the divine fullness should dwell in Him,

For it is God's will that you should keep pure in person, that you should practice abstinence from sexual immorality,

that each man among you should learn to take his own wife out of pure and honorable motives,

that no one should do wrong and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we told you before and solemnly warned you.

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that that day, like a thief, should take you by surprise;

They, too, should first be tested till approved, and then, if they are found above reproach, they should serve as deacons.

No widow under sixty years of age should be put on this roll. A widow must have had but one husband,

If a Christian woman has widowed relatives, she should help them, and let the church be free from the burden, so that it can help the widows who are really dependent.

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice the salary they get especially those who keep on toiling in preaching and teaching.

For someone somewhere has solemnly said: "What is man that you should think of him, or the Son of Man that you should care for Him?

Now Moses was faithful in all the house of God, yet only as a servant to bear witness to the message that should be spoken,

To whom did He take oath that they should not be admitted to His rest, if it was not to those who disobeyed Him?

from that time waiting till His enemies should be made the footstool of His feet.

And why should I continue to mention more? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we used to treat them with respect; how much more cheerfully should we submit to the Father of our spirits, and live!

and trumpet-blast, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not a word more should be added;

Many of you, my brothers, should avoid becoming teachers, because you know that we teachers are going to be judged with stricter judgment than other people.

Is any one of you suffering ill-treatment? He should keep on praying. Is anyone in a happy mood? He should keep on singing praise to God.

Is anyone sick among you? He should call in the elders of the church, and they should pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord,