It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown in the ground, though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the world,

They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

It is just like the way in which through one man sin came into the world, and death followed sin, and so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like