'Things' in the Bible

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said:Father,the hour has come.Glorify Your Sonso that the Son may glorify You,

Now they know that all thingsYou have given to Me are from You,

Everything I have is Yours,and everything You have is Mine,and I have been glorified in them.

Now I am coming to You,and I speak these things in the worldso that they may have My joy completed in them.

After Jesus had said these things, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, and He and His disciples went into it.

When He had said these things, one of the temple police standing by slapped Jesus, saying, “Is this the way you answer the high priest?”

For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of His bones will be broken.

This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were written one by one, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

Heaven must welcome Him until the times of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about by the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning.

You said through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David Your servant:Why did the Gentiles rageand the peoples plot futile things?

For there was not a needy person among them, because all those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

Then great fear came on the whole church and on all who heard these things.

As the commander of the temple police and the chief priests heard these things, they were baffled about them, as to what could come of this.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

Did not My hand make all these things?

When they heard these things, they were enraged in their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him.

Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he explained to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. “Report these things to James and the brothers,” he said. Then he departed and went to a different place.

“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.

Even though they said these things, they barely stopped the crowds from sacrificing to them.

After these things I will returnand rebuild David’s fallen tent.I will rebuild its ruinsand set it up again,

so the rest of humanitymay seek the Lord—even all the Gentileswho are called by My name,declares the Lord who does these things,

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who will personally report the same things by word of mouth.

For it was the Holy Spirit’s decision—and ours—to put no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things.Farewell.

The Jews stirred up the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I don’t want to be a judge of such things.”

Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judge’s bench. But none of these things concerned Gallio.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught the things about Jesus accurately, although he knew only John’s baptism.

Then he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, engaging in discussion and trying to persuade them about the things of the kingdom of God.

Therefore, since these things are undeniable, you must keep calm and not do anything rash.

commanding his accusers to come to you.] By examining him yourself you will be able to discern all these things we are accusing him of.”

The Jews also joined in the attack, alleging that these things were so.

But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Since I was at a loss in a dispute over such things, I asked him if he wished to go to Jerusalem and be tried there concerning these matters.

In fact, I myself supposed it was necessary to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness of what you have seen and of what I will reveal to you.

For the king knows about these matters. It is to him I am actually speaking boldly. For I am convinced that none of these things escapes his notice, since this was not done in a corner.

After he said these things and had taken some bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all of them, and when he broke it, he began to eat.

[After he said these things, the Jews departed, while engaging in a prolonged debate among themselves.]

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with full boldness and without hindrance.

Although they know full well God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

Therefore, any one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.

We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth.

Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment?

know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,

in God’s sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.

We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.

What then are we to say about these things?If God is for us, who is against us?

No, in all these things we are more than victoriousthrough Him who loved us.

For I am persuaded that not even death or life,angels or rulers,things present or things to come, hostile powers,

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the gospel of good things!

For from Him and through Himand to Him are all things.To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,

Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

So no one should boast in human leaders, for everything is yours—

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come—everything is yours,

Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the saying: “Nothing beyond what is written.” The purpose is that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over another.

when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world’s garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals.

Don’t you know that we will judge angels—not to mention ordinary matters?

Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have relations with a woman.”

I want you to be without concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord.

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world—how he may please his wife—

and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

yet for us there is one God, the Father.All things are from Him,and we exist for Him.And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ.All things are through Him,and we exist through Him.

If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.

Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.

Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

just as I also try to please all people in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, so that they may be saved. >

Now I praise you because you always remember me and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, and all things come from God.

It bears all things, believes all things,hopes all things, endures all things.

When I was a child,I spoke like a child,I thought like a child,I reasoned like a child.When I became a man,I put aside childish things.

Even inanimate things that produce sounds—whether flute or harp—if they don’t make a distinction in the notes, how will what is played on the flute or harp be recognized?

What then is the conclusion, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, a teaching, a revelation, another language, or an interpretation. All things must be done for edification.

Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

Not to mention other things, there is the daily pressure on me: my care for all the churches.

This is why I am writing these things while absent, that when I am there I will not use severity, in keeping with the authority the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

If I rebuild the system I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker.

But the law is not based on faith; instead, the one who does these things will live by them.

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

These things are illustrations, for the women represent the two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery—this is Hagar.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

for the administration of the days of fulfillment—to bring everything together in the Messiah, both things in heaven and things on earth in Him.

which is His body, the fullness of the One who fills all things in every way.

and to shed light for all about the administration of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.

The One who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.

Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.