and put on your feet the preparation the good news of peace supplies.

Therefore, as a means of spiritual preparation, tighten up the belt about your minds, keep perfectly calm, keep your hope on the spiritual blessing to be conferred upon you at the unveiling of Jesus Christ.

So He sent Peter and John, saying to them, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover meal."

On the next day, which is the day after the Preparation Day, the high priests and Pharisees met and went in a body to Pilate,

And if I go and make it ready for you, I will come back and take you to be face to face with me, so that you may always be right where I am.

In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

So I never give up; instead, although my outer nature is wasting away, my inner nature is constantly renewed from day to day.

For what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are inside the church,

for the immediate equipment of God's people for the work of service, for the ultimate building up of the body of Christ,

You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside too?

and beg Him to grant you, in accordance with the riches of His perfect character, to be mightily strengthened by His Spirit in your inmost being,

By faith we understand that the worlds were created, beautifully coordinated, and now exist, at God's command; so the things that we see did not develop out of mere matter.

reported, "We found the prison safely locked and the keepers on duty at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one on the inside."

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.

So you, too, on the outside seem to people to be upright, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

And He answered them, "Are you too without understanding yet? Do you not know that nothing from the outside that goes into a man can make him foul,

He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, or else he may incur reproach and fall into the devil's trap.

The grapes in the wine press were trodden outside the city, and blood streamed from the wine press until it reached the horses' bridles for a distance of two hundred miles.

but leave off the court outside the temple; do not measure it, because it has been given over to the heathen, and for forty-two months they will trample the city underfoot.

For even after I had gotten to Macedonia, my frail, human nature could find no relief; I was crushed with sorrow at every turn -- fighting without and fears within.

Your adornments must be not of an external nature, with braids of hair or ornaments of gold, or changes of dress,

Nothing that goes into a man from the outside can make him foul, but the things that come from the inside of a man are the things that make him foul."

And Peter followed Him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest's home; he even went inside and was sitting among the attendants to see how it would end.