It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;

For those will be times of suffering the like of which has never been from the first creation of God's world until now, and assuredly never will be again;

I have come like light into the world, in order that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark.

you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual and are living and acting like mere men of the world?

So then let us not sleep, like the rest of the world, but let us keep awake and be sober.