One will say, "I belong to the LORD,' and another will call himself by the name of Jacob; still another will have written on his hand, "the LORD's,' and will adopt the name of Israel."

People do the planning, but the end result is from the LORD.

In the same way, even though we are many people, we are one body in the Messiah and individual parts connected to each other.

So let no one boast about human beings, since everything belongs to you,

Indeed, the kingdom belongs to the LORD; he rules over the nations.

but you belong to the Messiah, and the Messiah belongs to God.

You, too, are among those who have been called to belong to Jesus the Messiah.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

With God is wisdom and strength; counsel and understanding belongs to him.

And if the ear says, "Since I'm not an eye, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

If we live, we live to honor the Lord; and if we die, we die to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

A wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but his wife does.

Deliverance comes from the LORD! May your blessing be on your people. Interlude To the Director: With stringed instruments. A Davidic Psalm

"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but what has been revealed belongs to us and to our children forever, so that we might observe the words of this Law."

"The silver belongs to me, as does the gold," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

So then, whenever we have the opportunity, let's practice doing good to everyone, especially to the family of faith.

All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified through them.

If the foot says, "Since I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

They left us, but they were not part of us, for if they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. Their leaving made it clear that none of them was really part of us.

So Jesus told them, "Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were utterly amazed at him.

These are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to the Messiah.

For this promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are distant, whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

You see, heaven even the highest heavens belongs to the LORD, along with the earth and all that is in it,

But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

You, however, are not under the control of the human nature but under the control of the Spirit, since God's Spirit lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of the Messiah, he does not belong to him.

The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but he gave the earth to human beings.

You know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, don't you? You do not belong to yourselves,

This is what I mean: Each of you is saying, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to the Messiah."

To you, LORD, belongs the greatness, and the valor, and the splendor, and the endurance, and the majesty because all that is in heaven and on earth is yours. To you belongs the kingdom, LORD, and you are exalted as head over all.

So Jesus got into one of the boats (the one that belonged to Simon) and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and began to teach the crowds from the boat.

Jesus, however, called for the children and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.

Acknowledge that the LORD is God. He made us and we belong to him; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

The one who belongs to God listens to the words of God. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God."

This is how God's children and the Devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.

The earth and everything in it exists for the LORD the world and those who live in it.

So he told them, "Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in union with the Messiah Jesus.

I belong to my beloved, and my beloved belongs to me. He is the one who grazes his flock among the lilies.

"Any tithes of the land from grain grown on the land or from fruit grown on the trees belong to the LORD. They are sacred to the LORD.