and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

So is the man who deceives his neighbor,
And says, “Was I not joking?”

A joyful heart is good medicine,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome.

But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

His servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings, please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save your life.”

Nevertheless I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.

For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.

Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.

Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.

They struck down at that time about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped.

And He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

But he said, “You are lazy, very lazy; therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage.

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children,

So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac;

But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together.

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”

When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.

And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;

Elijah replied to them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.