Once more he sent some other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests, here is my supper all prepared, my oxen and fat cattle are killed, everything is ready; come to the marriage-banquet.'

and when they reached Jesus they saw the lunatic sitting down, clothed and in his sober senses ??the man who had been possessed by 'Legion.' That frightened them.

but Symeon blessed them, and to his mother Mary he said, "This child is destined for the downfall as well as for the rise of many a one in Israel; destined to be a Sign for man's attack ??35 to bring out the secret aims of many a heart. And your own soul will be pierced by a spear."

He also said to his host, "When you give a dinner or supper, do not ask your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbours, in case they invite you back again and you get repaid.

Jesus said to him, "There was a man who was giving a large supper, to which he had invited a number of guests.

At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.'

For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my supper.'"

Will the man not rather say to him, 'Get some thing ready for my supper; gird yourself and wait on me till I eat and drink; then you can eat and drink yourself'?

So too he gave them the cup after supper, saying, "This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood shed for your sake.

They gave a supper for him there; Martha waited on him, and Lazarus was among those who reclined at table beside him.

so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

A jug full of vinegar was lying there; so they put a sponge full of vinegar on a spear and held it to his lips.

Peter turned round and saw that the favourite disciple of Jesus was following, the disciple who had leant on his breast at supper and put the question, "Lord, who is to betray you?"

But a man called Ananias, who with his wife Sapphira had sold some property,

I know that when I am gone, fierce wolves will get in among you, and they will not spare the flock; yes.

"Your excellency," said Paul to Festus, "I am not mad, I am speaking the sober truth.

The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides!

For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

But this makes it impossible for you to eat the 'Lord's' supper when you hold your gatherings.

As you eat, everyone takes his own supper; one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood; as often as you drink it, do it in memory of me.'

Get back to your sober senses and avoid sin, for some of you ??and I say this to your shame ??some of you are insensible to God.

I call God to witness against my soul, it was to spare you that I refrained from revisiting Corinth.

I warned you already, on my second visit, and I warn you now before I come, both you who sinned some time ago and the rest of you as well, that I will spare no one if I come back.

Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober;

but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet ??9 for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For if God did not spare angels who had sinned, but committing them to pits of the nether gloom in Tartarus, reserved them under punishment for doom:

if he did not spare the ancient world but kept Noah, the herald of righteousness, safe with seven others, when he let loose the deluge on the world of impious men: