Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.

so is the man who deceives his neighbor
and says, “I was only joking!”

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

You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, because these things must take place, but the end is not yet.

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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

There were also women looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

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

because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

His servants said to him, “Consider this: we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. So let’s put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and let’s go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

Yet I must travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!

For what credit is there if you sin and are punished, and you endure it? But when you do what is good and suffer, if you endure it, this brings favor with God.

Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had agreed to in the presence of the Hittites: 400 shekels of silver at the current commercial rate.

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts.

At that time they struck down about 10,000 Moabites, all strong and able-bodied men. Not one of them escaped.

He answered, “It isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to their dogs.”

But he said, “You are slackers. Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

Don’t continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

Hamor said to Jacob’s sons, “My son Shechem is strongly attracted to your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:

Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

When the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they came together.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking up the path, some small boys came out of the city and harassed him, chanting, “Go up, baldy! Go up, baldy!”

He turned around, looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 of the children.

At once something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized.

Elijah responded, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your 50 men.” So a divine fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his 50 men.