Circumcision will help you only if you observe the Law; but if you are a lawbreaker, you might as well be uncircumcised.

for they are God's agents to do you good. But if you do wrong you may well be afraid, for they do not carry swords for nothing. They are God's servants, to execute his wrath upon wrongdoers.

Then he said to them, "Who among you, if his child or his ox falls into a well, will not pull him out at once on the Sabbath?"

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

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.

I know how to live humbly and I know how to enjoy plenty. I have learned the secret, in any and all conditions, of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of going without.

The blind are regaining their sight and the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

And he answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. The blind are regaining their sight, the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

Seeing one of them being imposed upon, he interfered and defended the man who was being ill treated, striking down the Egyptian.

Being circumcised or being uncircumcised does not make any difference; all that matters is keeping God's commands.

But it is not everyone that has this knowledge; for some, through being long accustomed to idols, still eat meat that has been sacrificed to them as really offered to an idol, and their consciences, being oversensitive, are troubled.

Who is weak without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation?

So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated.

After being released, the apostles went back to their friends, and told them what the high priests and members of the council had said to them.

Being sent out in this way by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.

and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,

For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,

For Christ died and returned to life for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

when I go to Spain I hope to see you on my way there, and to have you see me off on my journey, after I have enjoyed being with you for a while.

so that in his presence no human being might have anything to boast of.

For what human being can understand a man's thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? Just so no one understands the thoughts of God but the spirit of God.

I for my part care very little about being examined by you or by any human court. I do not even offer myself for investigation.

And can you put on airs, instead of being overwhelmed with grief at having to expel from your number the man who has done this?

So, my brothers, set your hearts on being inspired to preach, and yet do not hinder people from speaking ecstatically.

to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the good news about him to the heathen, immediately, instead of consulting with any human being,

You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?

No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind.

and have a good reputation for Christian service, such as bringing up children, being hospitable to strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping people in distress, or devoting herself to any form of doing good.

He told his disciples to have a boat always ready for his use, to prevent his being crushed by the crowd.

but the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich and passions for other things creep in and choke the message out and it yields nothing.

sometimes being actually exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violence, and sometimes showing yourselves ready to share the lot of those in that condition.

Faith saved Rahab the prostitute from being destroyed with those who disobeyed God, because she had given a friendly welcome to the scouts.

You must find the greatest joy, my brothers, in being involved in various trials,

but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct,

Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.

and among the lampstands a being like a man, wearing a long robe, with a gold belt around his breast.

Immediately after this I found myself in a trance, and there stood a throne in heaven with a being seated on it.

Then I saw a white cloud, and seated on it a being like a man, with a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.

People went on eating, drinking, marrying, and being married up to the very day that Noah got into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.