He went to a town called Nazareth and made his home there, so that the saying of the prophet was fulfilled: "He shall be called a Nazarene."

But whenever you, a follower of mine, do a deed of charity, never let your own left hand know what your right hand is doing,

For I, too, am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order this one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave-boy to do this, and he does it."

But whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to a different one. For I solemnly say to you, you will not cover all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man returns.

He told them this story, as follows: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.

For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?

So the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle up his accounts with his slaves,

"This, I tell you, is why the kingdom will be taken away from you, and given to a people who will pay a fair rent for it.

Then He will answer, 'I solemnly say to you, every time you failed to do a good deed to one of these most insignificant people, you failed to do a good deed to me.'

And He said, "Go into the city, to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is near. I am going to keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and He said to the disciples, "Sit down here while I go over yonder and pray."

When they came to a place called Golgotha, which means the Place of the Skull,

Early in the morning, long before daybreak, He got up and went out to a lonely spot, and stayed praying there.

And if Satan has made an insurrection against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is surely coming to an end.

And He said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and rest a little while." For there was an endless stream of people coming and going, and they had no time even to eat.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?

Jesus said, "Do not try to stop him, for there is no one who will use my name to do a mighty deed, and then be able soon to abuse me.

and said to Him, "What sort of authority have you for doing as you do? Or, who gave you the authority to do as you do?"

Then the soldiers led Him away to a place inside the court yard, that is, of the governor's palace, and they called the whole battalion together.

Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,

to a virgin there engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.

Now in those days Mary got up and hurried off to the hill country, to a town in Judah,

Now when the period of their purification ended, in accordance with the law of Moses, they took Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord, to do as it is written in the law of the Lord,

Then the devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order this stone to turn to a loaf of bread."

and yet Elijah was not sent to a single one of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

As day broke He left the house and went to a lonely spot, and the crowds continued to look for Him; they overtook Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them.

One day as He was teaching, there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Him to cure people.

For I too am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave to do this, and he does it."

Soon afterwards He chanced to go to a town called Nain, and His disciples and a great throng of people were going along with Him.

"Two men were in debt to a money-lender. One owed him a hundred dollars, the other ten.

Now the apostles returned and told Jesus all that they had done. Then He took them and privately retired to a town called Bethsaida.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

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;

Then they went on to a different village.

Whenever you go to a house for headquarters, first say, 'Peace to this household.'

So he went to him and dressed his wounds by pouring oil and wine upon them, and then he put him on his donkey and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

Now as they were journeying on, He came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him to her house.

"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding supper, never take the best place, for someone of greater distinction than you may have been invited,

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the lowest place, so that when your host comes in, he may say to you, 'My friend, come up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow-guests.

Not many days after that, the younger son got together all he had and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered all his property by living in dissipation.

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed hogs.

So He said: "Once upon a time a man of noble birth went off to a distant country to get for himself a kingdom and then return.

On that very day, strange to say, two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,

So He came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

These words again led to a difference of opinion among the Jews.

and no person who continues to live and believe in me will ever die at all. Do you believe this?"

It was for this reason that Jesus no more appeared in public among the Jews, but He left that part of the country and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.

On saying these things He went out with His disciples across the Ravine of Cedars to a place where there was a garden, and He went into it with His disciples.

and He went out carrying the cross by Himself to a spot called The Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.

this very Jesus, I say, after He was betrayed, in accordance with the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you had wicked men kill by nailing Him to a cross;

when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple.

if it is for a good deed to a helpless man, or to learn how he was cured, that we are today being tried,

Saul heartily approved of his being put to death. So on that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all of them, except the apostles, were scattered over Judea and Samaria.

They answered, "Cornelius, a colonel in the army, an upright man and one who reveres God, and a man of high reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to listen to a message you would bring."

But Peter lifted him to his feet, saying, "Get up, I too am just a man myself."

Now he went to Derbe and Lystra too. At Lystra there was a disciple named Timothy, whose mother was a Christian Jewess, but his father was a Greek.

For as I was going here and there and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' So it is about the Being whom you are in ignorance already worshiping that I am telling you.

After these events had been brought to a close, Paul under the guidance of the Spirit decided to pass through Macedonia and Greece on his way to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have gone there I must see Rome too."

As the seven days were drawing to a close, the Jews from Asia caught a glimpse of him in the temple and began to stir up all the crowd, and seized him,

The next day, as he wished to learn the exact reason why the Jews accused him, he had him unbound, and ordered the high priest and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.

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.

After weighing anchor and leaving there, we arrived at Rhegium. The next day, a south wind began to blow, and the following day we got to Puteoli.

among whom you too as called ones belong to Jesus Christ --

always entreating God that somehow by His will I may some day at last succeed in getting to see you.

Furthermore, I want you to know, brothers, that I have often planned to come to see you (though until now I have been prevented), in order that I may gather some fruit among you too, as I have among the rest of the heathen.

But God's free gift is not at all to be compared with the offense. For if by one man's offense the whole race of men have died, to a much greater degree God's favor and His gift imparted by His favor through the one man Jesus Christ, has overflowed for the whole race of men.

For if by one man's offense death reigned through that one, to a much greater degree will those who continue to receive the overflow of His unmerited favor and His gift of right standing with Himself, reign in real life through One, Jesus Christ.

But of Israel he said: "All day long I have held out my hands to a people that is disobedient and obstinate."

as the Scripture Says, "God has given them over to an attitude of insensibility, so that their eyes cannot see and their ears cannot hear, down to this very day."

For if you were cut off from an olive wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted on to a fine olive stock, how much easier will it be for the natural branches to be grafted on to their own olive stock?

The wife does not have the right to do as she pleases with her own body; the husband has his right to it. In the same way the husband does not have the right to do as he pleases with his own body; the wife has her right to it.

It is for your welfare that I am saying this, not to put restraint on you, but to foster good order and to help you to an undivided devotion to the Lord.

But it is not in all of you that such knowledge is found. Some, because of their past habits with idols, even down to the present moment, still eat such food as was really sacrificed to an idol, and so their consciences, because they are overscrupulous, are contaminated.

For if somebody sees you, who have an intelligent view of this matter, partaking of a meal in an idol's temple, will he not be emboldened, with his overscrupulous conscience, to eat the food which has been sacrificed to an idol?

Then what do I mean? That the sacrifice to an idol is a reality, or that an idol itself is a reality? Of course not!

He was seen by me, too, as though I were born out of time.

Now about the contribution for God's people, I want you to do as I directed the churches of Galatia to do.

To a man like that, this censure by the majority has been sufficient punishment,

They did not do as I expected but even more; they first by God's will gave themselves to the Lord, and then to me;

I wish you would now listen to a little folly of mine. Please do listen to me!

Let me say again that no one must think that I am a fool, but if you do, please treat me like a fool and let me do a little boasting too, as other fools do.

For you listen to a man, if he makes you his slave, or spends your money for his living, or cheats you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in the face.

I am astonished that you are beginning so soon to turn away from Him who called you by the favor of Christ, to a different good news,

You too, as you have heard the message of the truth, the good news that means your salvation, and as you have trusted in Him too, have been stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

until we all attain to unity in faith and to perfect knowledge of the Son of God, namely, to a mature manhood and to a perfect measure of Christ's moral stature;

For God did not call us to a life of immorality, but to one of personal purity.

who is ever willing for all mankind to be saved and to come to an increasing knowledge of the truth.

who gave Himself as a ransom for all, a fact that was testified to at the proper time,

With gentleness he must correct his opponents, for God might grant them repentance that would lead them to a full knowledge of the truth,

who are always trying to learn but never able to come to a full knowledge of the truth.

Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to stimulate faith in God's chosen people and to lead them on to a full knowledge of religious truth,

After one or two warnings to a man who is factious, stop having anything to do with him,

but I would not do a single thing about it without your consent, so that this kindness of yours to me might not seem to come by compulsion but voluntarily.

how can we escape, if we pay no attention at all to a salvation that is so great? This is so because it was first proclaimed by the Lord Himself, and then it was proved to us to be valid by the very men who heard Him themselves,

but day by day, as long as "Today" shall last, continue to encourage one another, so that not one of you may be hardened by sin's deceiving ways,

By faith Sarah received strength to become pregnant, and actually gave birth to a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought that He who made her the promise was to be trusted.

Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.

For you have not come to a blazing fire that can be touched, to gloom and darkness, storm

to the festal gathering and assembly of God's firstborn sons enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a Judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men who have attained perfection,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In accordance with His great mercy He has begotten us anew to an ever living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;