is in no way bound to honor his father. Thus do you make void the word of God by your tradition!

Thus by your tradition which you have handed down you set at naught the word of God; and you do many other things like that."

"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

"No, rather," he answered, "blessed are those who listen to the word of God, and keep it."

And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves. Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

But first be assured of this??hat no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

Much in every way. First of all, because to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

For the Scripture says, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading out the grain, and The worker is worth his wages.

It is the same in all his letters when he speaks of these things. There are indeed some things in his letters hard to understand, which the ignorant and the shifty wrest, as also they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

"If those to whom the word of God came are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled),

and how from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

I am; for I am not like most, trafficking in the word of God, but rather from a sincere heart, like a man of God, I speak in Christ, in the very presence of God.

I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.

and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the Tree of Life, and in the Holy City, about which this book is written.