Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:

store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrode, where thieves do not break in and steal.

Now a heavy storm came on at sea, so that the boat was buried under the waves. He was sleeping.

The good man brings good out of his good store, and the evil man brings evil out of his store of evil.

So the soldiers took the money and followed their instructions; and this story has been disseminated among the Jews down to the present day.

all who heard it were astonished at the story of the shepherds,

And this story of Jesus spread through the whole of Judaea and all the surrounding country.

So he debated, 'What am I to do? I have no room to store my crops.'

And he said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my granaries and build larger ones, where I can store all my produce and my goods.

But this story of the women seemed in their opinion to be nonsense; they would not believe them.

As we were being terribly battered by the storm, they had to jettison the cargo next day,

for many days neither sun nor stars could be seen, the storm raged heavily, and at last we had to give up all hope of being saved.

They replied, "We have had no letters about you from Judaea, and no brother has come here with any bad report or story about you.

We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."

Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.

You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God

God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them,