"but the gate is narrow and the road is steep, which leads to life, and they are few who find it.

And he said to his disciples. "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few;

"How many loaves have you?" answered Jesus. They replied, "Seven, and a few small fish.

"For there are many called, but few are chosen."

And he was unable to do any miracle there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick folk and healed them.

They had also a few small fish; after blessing these he told his disciples to distribute them also.

And he thus addressed them. "The harvest is abundant, but the harvesters are few. do you therefore pray the lord of the harvest to send forth harvesters into his harvest.

"but he who did not know, but did things worthy of a beating, will receive few lashes. To whom much has been given, from him much will be required, and to whom much is entrusted, of him they will ask the more.

teaching as he journeyed toward Jerusalem. And a man came behind him and said, "Lord are there but few that are saved?"

And when he came into view of the city, as he approached it he broke into loud weeping,

Afterward he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and remained there a few days.

So many of them became believers, and so did not a few Greeks, women of honorable estate, and men.

A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and some others.

And Paul after remaining in Corinth some time longer, took leave of the brothers, and sailed away to Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. As Paul was under a vow, he had his head shaved at Cenchrea.

Now it happened that while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul, after passing through the hinterland, came to Ephesus, where he found a few disciples.

A few days after this we took up our luggage and went up to Jerusalem.

"We have four men here under a vow; associate yourself with them, purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they may have their heads shaved; then every one will know that there is no truth in the rumors that they have heard about you; but that you yourself walk orderly obeying the law.

"But not to weary you too much, I beg of your Excellency to listen to a few words from us.

When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they proceeded to hand over Paul and a few other prisoners to the custody of Julius, a centurion of the Imperial Regiment.

Even as in an earlier passage, Isaiah says, Except the Lord of Sabbath had us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and should have fared like Gomorrah.

I think then, that in view of the time of suffering now imminent, it is best for a man to remain as he is.

Did you have such experience to no purpose??f indeed it was really to no purpose?

They forbid me to speak to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation. They continue always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God is come upon them to the full!

"We toil and agonize because our hopes are set on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all men,??f believers in particular.

For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share his holiness.

who in old times had been disobedient, when God's longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was building, in which a few persons??ight in number??ere saved by water.)

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality.

Yet you have a few names in Sardis that have not defiled their garment; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.