yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will give her justice and protection, so that she may not finally wear me out by her continual coming."

Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.

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.

When He saw the crowds, His heart was moved with pity for them, because they were tired and scattered like sheep without a shepherd.

So, to keep me from being over-elated, there was sent upon me a physical disease, sharp as a piercing stake, a messenger of Satan, to continue afflicting me, and so to keep me, I repeat, from being over-elated.

Even those who were troubled by foul spirits were being cured.

And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and pleaded, saying, "Do pity me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is suffering horrors from a demon."

And because He saw that they were struggling at the oars, for the wind was against them, a while before daybreak He started toward them walking on the sea, and He meant to go right up beside them.

Then he took Him up and in a second of time he showed Him all the kingdoms of the world.

Even while He was saying this, people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead; why trouble the Teacher any longer?"

About that time Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, in order to do them violence.

Even from the towns around Jerusalem crowds continued coming in to bring their sick ones and those troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.

On every side I am ever hard-pressed, but never hemmed in; always perplexed, but never to the point of despair;