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isv@Matthew:1:1 @ This is a record of the birth of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

isv@Matthew:1:2 @ Abraham fathered Isaac, Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers.

isv@Matthew:1:3 @ Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez fathered Hezron, Hezron fathered Aram,

isv@Matthew:1:4 @ Aram fathered Aminidab, Aminidab fathered Nahshon, and Nahshon fathered Salmon.

isv@Matthew:1:5 @ Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab, Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth, Obed fathered Jesse,

isv@Matthew:1:6 @ and Jesse fathered King David.David fathered Solomon by the wife of Uriah,

isv@Matthew:1:7 @ Solomon fathered Rehoboam, Rehoboam fathered Abijah, Abijah fathered Asaph,

isv@Matthew:1:8 @ Asaph fathered Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat fathered Joram, Joram fathered Uzziah,

isv@Matthew:1:9 @ Uzziah fathered Jotham, Jotham fathered Ahaz, Ahaz fathered Hezekiah,

isv@Matthew:1:10 @ Hezekiah fathered Manasseh, Manasseh fathered Amos, and Amos fathered Josiah.

isv@Matthew:1:11 @ Josiah fathered Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

isv@Matthew:1:12 @ After the deportation to Babylon, Jechoniah fathered Salathiel, Salathiel fathered Zerubbabel,

isv@Matthew:1:13 @ Zerubbabel fathered Abiud, Abiud fathered Eliakim, Eliakim fathered Azor,

isv@Matthew:1:14 @ Azor fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Achim, Achim fathered Eliud,

isv@Matthew:1:15 @ Eliud fathered Eleazar, Eleazar fathered Matthan, and Matthan fathered Jacob.

isv@Matthew:1:16 @ Jacob fathered Joseph, the husband of Mary, who was the mother of Jesus, who is called the Christ.

isv@Matthew:1:17 @ So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon were fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ were fourteen generations.

isv@Matthew:1:18 @ Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened in this way. When his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, before they lived together she was discovered to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

isv@Matthew:1:19 @ Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to disgrace her, decided to divorce her secretly.

isv@Matthew:1:20 @ After he had thought about it, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

isv@Matthew:1:21 @ She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he is the one who will save his people from their sins.”

isv@Matthew:1:22 @ Now all this happened to fulfill what was declared by the Lord through the prophet when he said,

isv@Matthew:1:23 @ “See, a virgin will become pregnantand give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel,”which means, “God with us.”

isv@Matthew:1:24 @ When Joseph got up from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary as his wife.

isv@Matthew:1:25 @ He did not have marital relations with her until she had given birth to a son; and he named him Jesus.

isv@Matthew:2:1 @ After Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem

isv@Matthew:2:2 @ and asked, “Where is the one who was born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.”

isv@Matthew:2:3 @ When King Herod heard this he was troubled, and all the people of Jerusalem with him.

isv@Matthew:2:4 @ He called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Christ was to be born.

isv@Matthew:2:5 @ They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea. For that is what was written by the prophet:

isv@Matthew:2:6 @ ‘O Bethlehem in the land of Judah,you are by no means least among the rulers of Judah. For from you will come a rulerwho will shepherd my people Israel.’”

isv@Matthew:2:7 @ Then Herod secretly called together the wise men and found out from them the time the star had appeared.

isv@Matthew:2:8 @ Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “As you go, search carefully for the child. When you find him, tell me so that I, too, may go and worship him.”

isv@Matthew:2:9 @ After listening to the king, they set out, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it came and stopped over the place where the child was.

isv@Matthew:2:10 @ When they saw the star, they were ecstatic with joy.

isv@Matthew:2:11 @ After they went into the house and saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure sacks and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

isv@Matthew:2:12 @ Having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they left for their own country by a different road.

isv@Matthew:2:13 @ After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends to search for the child and kill him.”

isv@Matthew:2:14 @ So Joseph got up and took the child and his mother and left at night for Egypt.

isv@Matthew:2:15 @ He stayed there until Herod's death in order to fulfill what was declared by the Lord through the prophet when he said, “Out of Egypt I called my Son.”

isv@Matthew:2:16 @ When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he flew into a rage and ordered the execution of all the male children in Bethlehem and all its neighboring regions who were two years old and younger, according to the time that he had determined from the wise men.

isv@Matthew:2:17 @ Then what was declared by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled when he said,

isv@Matthew:2:18 @ “A voice was heard in Ramah:wailing and great mourning. Rachel was crying for her children.She refused to be comforted,because they no longer existed.”

isv@Matthew:2:19 @ But after Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

isv@Matthew:2:20 @ and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to kill the child are dead.”

isv@Matthew:2:21 @ So Joseph got up and took the child and his mother and went into the land of Israel.

isv@Matthew:2:22 @ But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he left for the region of Galilee

isv@Matthew:2:23 @ and came and settled in a town called Nazareth in order to fulfill what was said by the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”

isv@Matthew:3:1 @ In those days John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the wilderness of Judea

isv@Matthew:3:2 @ and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near!”

isv@Matthew:3:3 @ He was the one the prophet Isaiah was referring to when he said, “He is a voice calling out in the wilderness:‘Prepare the way for the Lord!Make his paths straight!’”

isv@Matthew:3:4 @ John had clothing made of camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist. His diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.

isv@Matthew:3:5 @ Then the people of Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region along the Jordan began flocking to him,

isv@Matthew:3:6 @ being baptized by him in the Jordan River while they confessed their sins.

isv@Matthew:3:7 @ But when John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them, “You children of serpents! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

isv@Matthew:3:8 @ Produce fruit that is consistent with repentance!

isv@Matthew:3:9 @ Don't think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our forefather.’ For I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!

isv@Matthew:3:10 @ The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

isv@Matthew:3:11 @ I am baptizing you with water as a token of repentance, but the one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals. It is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

isv@Matthew:3:12 @ His winnowing fork is in his hand. He will clean up his threshing floor and gather his grain into the barn, but he will burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire.”

isv@Matthew:3:13 @ Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.

isv@Matthew:3:14 @ But John tried to stop him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?”

isv@Matthew:3:15 @ But Jesus answered him,“Let it be this way for now, for this is the proper way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John let him.

isv@Matthew:3:16 @ When Jesus had been baptized, he immediately came up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens opened up for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.

isv@Matthew:3:17 @ Then a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him!”

isv@Matthew:4:1 @ Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

isv@Matthew:4:2 @ After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he finally became hungry.

isv@Matthew:4:3 @ The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”

isv@Matthew:4:4 @ But he answered,“It is written, ‘One must not live on bread alone,but on every word comingout of the mouth of God.’”

isv@Matthew:4:5 @ Then the devil took him to the Holy City and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.

isv@Matthew:4:6 @ He said to Jesus, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, ‘God will put his angels in charge of you,’and ‘With their hands they will hold you up,so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.’”

isv@Matthew:4:7 @ Jesus said to him,“It is also written,‘You must not tempt the Lord your God.’”

isv@Matthew:4:8 @ Once more the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

isv@Matthew:4:9 @ He said to Jesus, “I will give you all of these things if you will bow down and worship me!”

isv@Matthew:4:10 @ Then Jesus said to him,“Go away,Satan! For it is written,‘You must worship the Lord your Godand serve only him.’”

isv@Matthew:4:11 @ Then the devil left him, and angels came and began ministering to him.

isv@Matthew:4:12 @ Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he went back to Galilee.

isv@Matthew:4:13 @ He left Nazareth and went and settled in Capernaum by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali,

isv@Matthew:4:14 @ in order to fulfill what was declared by the prophet Isaiah when he said,

isv@Matthew:4:15 @ “O Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,on the road to the sea, across the Jordan,Galilee of the Gentiles!

isv@Matthew:4:16 @ The people living in darkness have seen a great light,and for those living in the land and shadow of death,a light has risen.”

isv@Matthew:4:17 @ From then on, Jesus began to preach and to say,“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near!”

isv@Matthew:4:18 @ While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon, who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew. They were throwing a net into the sea because they were fishermen.

isv@Matthew:4:19 @ He said to them,“Follow me, and I will make you fishermen of people!”

isv@Matthew:4:20 @ So at once they left their nets and followed him.

isv@Matthew:4:21 @ Going on from there he saw two other brothers—James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee repairing their nets. When he called them,

isv@Matthew:4:22 @ they immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.

isv@Matthew:4:23 @ Then he went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.

isv@Matthew:4:24 @ His fame spread throughout Syria, and people brought to him all who were sick—those afflicted with various diseases and pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralyzed—and he healed them.

isv@Matthew:4:25 @ Large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from across the Jordan.

isv@Matthew:5:1 @ When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a hillside and sat down. His disciples came to him,

isv@Matthew:5:2 @ and he opened his mouth and began to teach them, saying,

isv@Matthew:5:3 @ “How blessed are those who are destitute in spirit,for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them!

isv@Matthew:5:4 @ “How blessed are those who mourn,for it is they who will be comforted!

isv@Matthew:5:5 @ “How blessed are those who are humble,for it is they who will inherit the earth!

isv@Matthew:5:6 @ “How blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness,for it is they who will be satisfied!

isv@Matthew:5:7 @ “How blessed are those who are merciful,for it is they who will receive mercy!

isv@Matthew:5:8 @ “How blessed are those who are pure in heart,for it is they who will see God!

isv@Matthew:5:9 @ “How blessed are those who make peace,for it is they who will be called God's children!

isv@Matthew:5:10 @ “How blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them!

isv@Matthew:5:11 @ “How blessed are you whenever peopleinsult you, persecute you, and say all sorts of evil things against you falselybecause of me!

isv@Matthew:5:12 @ Rejoice and be extremely glad, because your reward in heaven is great! For that's how they persecuted the prophets who came before you.”

isv@Matthew:5:13 @ “You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

isv@Matthew:5:14 @ You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden.

isv@Matthew:5:15 @ Peopledon't light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

isv@Matthew:5:16 @ In the same way, let your light shine before people in such a way that they will see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”

isv@Matthew:5:17 @ “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I didn't come to destroy them, but to fulfill them.

isv@Matthew:5:18 @ For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not one letteror one stroke of a letter will disappear from the Law until everything has been accomplished.

isv@Matthew:5:19 @ So whoever sets asideone of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

isv@Matthew:5:20 @ For I tell you, unless your righteousness greatly exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!”

isv@Matthew:5:21 @ “You have heard that it was said to those who lived long ago, ‘You must not murder,’and ‘Whoever murders will be subject to punishment.’

isv@Matthew:5:22 @ But I say to you, anyone who is angry with his brother without a causewill be subject to punishment. And whoever says to his brother ‘Raka!’will be subject to the Council.And whoever says ‘You fool!’ will be subject to hellfire.

isv@Matthew:5:23 @ “So if you are presenting your gift at the altar and remember there that your brother has something against you,

isv@Matthew:5:24 @ leave your gift there before the altar and first go and be reconciled to your brother. Then come and offer your gift.

isv@Matthew:5:25 @ Come to terms quickly with your opponent while you are on the way to court,or your opponent may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison.

isv@Matthew:5:26 @ Truly I tell you, you will not get out of there until you pay back the last penny!”

isv@Matthew:5:27 @ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You must not commit adultery.’

isv@Matthew:5:28 @ But I say to you, anyone who stares at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

isv@Matthew:5:29 @ So if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

isv@Matthew:5:30 @ And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away from you. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.”

isv@Matthew:5:31 @ “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a written notice of divorce.’

isv@Matthew:5:32 @ But I say to you, any man who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

isv@Matthew:5:33 @ “Again, you have heard that it was said to those who lived long ago, ‘You must not swear an oath falsely,’ but ‘You must fulfill your oaths to the Lord.’

isv@Matthew:5:34 @ But I tell you not to swear at all, neither by heaven, because it is God's throne,

isv@Matthew:5:35 @ nor by the earth, because it is his footstool, nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the Great King.

isv@Matthew:5:36 @ Nor should you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.

isv@Matthew:5:37 @ Instead, let your word be ‘Yes’ for ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ for ‘No.’ Anything more than that comes from the evil one.”

isv@Matthew:5:38 @ “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

isv@Matthew:5:39 @ But I tell you not to resist an evildoer. On the contrary, whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

isv@Matthew:5:40 @ If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat as well.

isv@Matthew:5:41 @ And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go two with him.

isv@Matthew:5:42 @ Give to the person who asks you for something, and do not turn away from the person who wants to borrow something from you.”

isv@Matthew:5:43 @ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You must love your neighbor’and hate your enemy.

isv@Matthew:5:44 @ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

isv@Matthew:5:45 @ so that you will become children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and he lets rain fall on the righteous and the unrighteous.

isv@Matthew:5:46 @ For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don't they?

isv@Matthew:5:47 @ And if you greet only your brothers, what great thing are you doing? Even the Gentilesdo the same, don't they?

isv@Matthew:5:48 @ So be perfect,as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

isv@Matthew:6:1 @ “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people in order to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

isv@Matthew:6:2 @ So whenever you give to the poor, don't blow a trumpet before you like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they will be praised by people. Truly I tell you, they have their full reward!

isv@Matthew:6:3 @ But when you give to the poor, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

isv@Matthew:6:4 @ so that your giving may be done in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

isv@Matthew:6:5 @ “And whenever you pray, don't be like the hypocrites who love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have their full reward!

isv@Matthew:6:6 @ But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

isv@Matthew:6:7 @ “When you are praying, don't say meaningless words like the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard because of their wordiness.

isv@Matthew:6:8 @ Don't be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

isv@Matthew:6:9 @ “Therefore, this is how you should pray:‘Our Father in heaven,may your name be kept holy.

isv@Matthew:6:10 @ May your kingdom come.May your will be done,on earth as it is in heaven.

isv@Matthew:6:11 @ Give us today our daily bread,

isv@Matthew:6:12 @ and forgive us our sins,as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.

isv@Matthew:6:13 @ And never bring us into temptation,but deliver us from the evil one.’

isv@Matthew:6:14 @ For if you forgive people their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

isv@Matthew:6:15 @ But if you do not forgive people their offenses,your Father will not forgive your offenses.”

isv@Matthew:6:16 @ “Whenever you fast, don't be gloomy like the hypocrites. For they put on sad faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have their full reward!

isv@Matthew:6:17 @ But when you fast, put oil onyour head and wash your face,

isv@Matthew:6:18 @ so that your fasting will not be noticed by others but by your Father who sees in secret. And your Father who is in secret will reward you.”

isv@Matthew:6:19 @ “Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

isv@Matthew:6:20 @ But keep on storing up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal.

isv@Matthew:6:21 @ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

isv@Matthew:6:22 @ “The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

isv@Matthew:6:23 @ But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”

isv@Matthew:6:24 @ “No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!”

isv@Matthew:6:25 @ “That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life—what you will eat or what you will drink—or about your body—what you will wear. Life is more than food, isn't it, and the body more than clothing?

isv@Matthew:6:26 @ Look at the birds in the sky. They don't plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren't you?

isv@Matthew:6:27 @ Can any of you add a single hour to your span of lifeby worrying?

isv@Matthew:6:28 @ And why do you worry about clothes? Consider the lilies in the field and how they grow. They don't work or spin yarn,

isv@Matthew:6:29 @ but I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them.

isv@Matthew:6:30 @ Now if that is the way God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and thrown into an oven tomorrow, won't he clothe you much better—you who have little faith?

isv@Matthew:6:31 @ “So don't ever worry by saying, ‘What are we going to eat?’ or ‘What are we going to drink?’ or ‘What are we going to wear?’

isv@Matthew:6:32 @ For it is the Gentiles who are eager for all those things. Surely your heavenly Father knows that you need all of them!

isv@Matthew:6:33 @ But first be concerned about God's kingdom and his righteousness,and all of these things will be provided for you as well.

isv@Matthew:6:34 @ So never worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

isv@Matthew:7:1 @ “Stop judging, so that you won't be judged.

isv@Matthew:7:2 @ For with the judgment you use,you will be judged. And with the measure you use,you will be measured.

isv@Matthew:7:3 @ “Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

isv@Matthew:7:4 @ Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when the beam is in your own eye?

isv@Matthew:7:5 @ You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye.”

isv@Matthew:7:6 @ “Never give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs. Otherwise, they will trample them with their feet and then turn around and attack you.”

isv@Matthew:7:7 @ “Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the doorwill be opened for you.

isv@Matthew:7:8 @ For everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the dooropened.

isv@Matthew:7:9 @ “There isn't a person among you who would give his son a stone if he asked for bread, is there?

isv@Matthew:7:10 @ Or if he asks for a fish, he wouldn't give him a snake, would he?

isv@Matthew:7:11 @ So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who keep on asking him!

isv@Matthew:7:12 @ Therefore, whatever you want people to do for you, do the same for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”

isv@Matthew:7:13 @ “Go in through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is spacious that leads to destruction, and many people are entering by it.

isv@Matthew:7:14 @ How narrow is the gate and how constricted is the road that leads to life, and few are the people who find it!”

isv@Matthew:7:15 @ “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheeps’ clothing but inwardly are savage wolves.

isv@Matthew:7:16 @ By their fruit you will know them. Grapes aren't gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles, are they?

isv@Matthew:7:17 @ In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit.

isv@Matthew:7:18 @ A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot produce good fruit.

isv@Matthew:7:19 @ Every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire.

isv@Matthew:7:20 @ So by their fruit you will know them.”

isv@Matthew:7:21 @ “Not everyone who keeps saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven.

isv@Matthew:7:22 @ Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name, drove out demons in your name, and performed many miracles in your name, didn't we?’

isv@Matthew:7:23 @ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you evildoers!’”

isv@Matthew:7:24 @ “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and obeys them is like a wise man who built his house on a rock.

isv@Matthew:7:25 @ The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation was on the rock.

isv@Matthew:7:26 @ “Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn't obey them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

isv@Matthew:7:27 @ The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and battered that house, and it collapsed, and its collapse was devastating.”

isv@Matthew:7:28 @ When Jesus had finished saying all these things, the crowds were utterly amazed at his teaching,

isv@Matthew:7:29 @ for he was teaching them like a person who had authority, and not like their scribes.

isv@Matthew:8:1 @ When Jesus came down from the hillside, large crowds followed him.

isv@Matthew:8:2 @ Suddenly a leper came up to him, fell down before him, and said, “Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

isv@Matthew:8:3 @ So Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and said,“I do want to. Be made clean!” And instantly his leprosy was made clean.

isv@Matthew:8:4 @ Then Jesus said to him,“See to it that you don't speak to anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest, and then offer the sacrifice that Moses commanded as proof to the authorities.”

isv@Matthew:8:5 @ When Jesus returned to Capernaum, a centurion came up to him and begged him repeatedly,

isv@Matthew:8:6 @ “Sir, my servant is lying at home paralyzed and in terrible pain.”

isv@Matthew:8:7 @ Jesus said to him,“I will come and heal him.”

isv@Matthew:8:8 @ The centurion replied, “Sir, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

isv@Matthew:8:9 @ For I, too, am a man under authority and have soldiers under me. I say to one ‘Go’ and he goes, to another ‘Come’ and he comes, and to my servant ‘Do this’ and he does it.”

isv@Matthew:8:10 @ When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those who were following him,“Truly I tell you, not evenin Israel have I found this kind of faith!

isv@Matthew:8:11 @ I tell you, many will come from east and west and will feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

isv@Matthew:8:12 @ But the citizensof that kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”

isv@Matthew:8:13 @ Then Jesus said to the centurion,“Go. It will be done for you just as you have believed.” And his servant was healed that very hour.

isv@Matthew:8:14 @ When Jesus went into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed, sick with a fever.

isv@Matthew:8:15 @ He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began serving him.

isv@Matthew:8:16 @ When evening came, people brought to him many who were possessed by demons. He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all those who were sick.

isv@Matthew:8:17 @ This was to fulfill what was declared by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “It was he who took our illnesses awayand removed our diseases.”

isv@Matthew:8:18 @ When Jesus saw the large crowds around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side.

isv@Matthew:8:19 @ Now a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

isv@Matthew:8:20 @ Jesus told him, “Foxes have holes and birds have nests,but the Son of Man has no place to rest.”

isv@Matthew:8:21 @ Then another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

isv@Matthew:8:22 @ But Jesus told him,“Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

isv@Matthew:8:23 @ When Jesus got into the boat, his disciples went with him.

isv@Matthew:8:24 @ Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat began to be swamped by the waves. Yet Jesus kept sleeping.

isv@Matthew:8:25 @ They went to him and woke him up, saying, “Lord, save us! We're going to die!”

isv@Matthew:8:26 @ He said to them,“Why are you afraid, you who have little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

isv@Matthew:8:27 @ The men were amazed and said, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!”

isv@Matthew:8:28 @ When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gerasenes, two demon-possessed men met him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so violent that no one could travel on that road.

isv@Matthew:8:29 @ Suddenly they screamed, “What do you want with us, Son of God? Did you come here to torture us before the proper time?”

isv@Matthew:8:30 @ Now a large herd of pigs was grazing some distance away from them.

isv@Matthew:8:31 @ So the demons began to plead with Jesus, saying, “If you drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs.”

isv@Matthew:8:32 @ He said to them,“Go,” and they came out and went into the pigs. Suddenly, the whole herd rushed down the cliff into the sea and died in the water.

isv@Matthew:8:33 @ Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they came into the city and reported everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men.

isv@Matthew:8:34 @ Then the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.

isv@Matthew:9:1 @ After getting into a boat, Jesus crossed to the other side and came to his own city.

isv@Matthew:9:2 @ All at once some people brought him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man,“Be courageous, son! Your sins are forgiven.”

isv@Matthew:9:3 @ Then some of the scribes said to themselves, “This fellow is blaspheming!”

isv@Matthew:9:4 @ But Jesus knew their thoughts and said,“Why do you have such evil thoughts in your hearts?

isv@Matthew:9:5 @ For which is easier: to say ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

isv@Matthew:9:6 @ But I want you to knowthat the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.”Then he said to the paralyzed man,“Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!”

isv@Matthew:9:7 @ So the man got up and went home.

isv@Matthew:9:8 @ When the crowds saw this, they became frightened and glorified God for giving such authority to humans.

isv@Matthew:9:9 @ As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's desk and said to him,“Follow me.” So he got up and followed him.

isv@Matthew:9:10 @ While he was having dinner at Matthew's home, many tax collectors and sinners arrived and began eating with Jesus and his disciples.

isv@Matthew:9:11 @ The Pharisees saw this and said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

isv@Matthew:9:12 @ When Jesus heard that, he said,“Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick people do.

isv@Matthew:9:13 @ Go and learn what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’For I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners.”

isv@Matthew:9:14 @ Then John's disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?”

isv@Matthew:9:15 @ Jesus said to them,“The wedding guests can't mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.”

isv@Matthew:9:16 @ “No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.

isv@Matthew:9:17 @ Nor do peoplepour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill out, and the skins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

isv@Matthew:9:18 @ While Jesus was telling them these things, an official came up, fell down before him, and said, “My daughter has just died. But come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”

isv@Matthew:9:19 @ So Jesus got up and followed him, along with his disciples.

isv@Matthew:9:20 @ Just then a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel of his garment.

isv@Matthew:9:21 @ For she had been saying to herself, “If I just touch his robe, I will get well.”

isv@Matthew:9:22 @ When Jesus turned and saw her, he said,“Be courageous, daughter! Your faith has made you well.” And from that very hour the woman was well.

isv@Matthew:9:23 @ When Jesus came to the official's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,

isv@Matthew:9:24 @ he said,“Go away! The girl hasn't died but is sleeping.” They laughed and laughed at him.

isv@Matthew:9:25 @ But when the crowd had been driven outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.

isv@Matthew:9:26 @ The news of this spread throughout that land.

isv@Matthew:9:27 @ As Jesus was traveling on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

isv@Matthew:9:28 @ When he had gone into the house, the blind men came to him.Jesus asked them,“Do you believe I can do this?”They said to him, “Yes, Lord!”

isv@Matthew:9:29 @ Then he touched their eyes and said,“According to your faith, let it be done for you!”

isv@Matthew:9:30 @ And their eyes were opened.Then Jesus sternly told them,“See to it that nobody knows about this.”

isv@Matthew:9:31 @ But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that land.

isv@Matthew:9:32 @ As they were going out, a man who couldn't talk because he was demon-possessed was brought to him.

isv@Matthew:9:33 @ As soon as the demon had been driven out, the man began to speak. The crowds were amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”

isv@Matthew:9:34 @ But the Pharisees kept saying, “He drives out demons by the ruler of demons.”

isv@Matthew:9:35 @ Then Jesus began traveling through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness.

isv@Matthew:9:36 @ When he saw the crowds, he was deeply moved with compassion for them, because they were troubled and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

isv@Matthew:9:37 @ Then he said to his disciples,“The harvest is vast, but the workers are few.

isv@Matthew:9:38 @ So ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”

isv@Matthew:10:1 @ Then Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could drive them out and heal every disease and every illness.

isv@Matthew:10:2 @ These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

isv@Matthew:10:3 @ Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

isv@Matthew:10:4 @ Simon the Cananaean and Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed Jesus.

isv@Matthew:10:5 @ These were the twelve whom Jesus sent out, charging them with the words,“Don't turn off into the road that leads to the Gentiles, and don't enter a town of the Samaritans.

isv@Matthew:10:6 @ Go, instead, to the lost sheep of the nationof Israel.

isv@Matthew:10:7 @ As you go, proclaim, ‘The kingdom of heaven is near!’

isv@Matthew:10:8 @ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without payment you have received; without payment you are to give.

isv@Matthew:10:9 @ Don't take any gold, silver, or copper in your moneybags,

isv@Matthew:10:10 @ or a traveling bag for the trip, or an extra shirt,or sandals, or a walking stick. For a worker deserves his food.

isv@Matthew:10:11 @ “Whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you leave.

isv@Matthew:10:12 @ As you enter the house, greet it.

isv@Matthew:10:13 @ If the house is receptive,let your blessing of peace come on it. But if it isn't receptive,let your blessing of peace return to you.

isv@Matthew:10:14 @ If no one welcomes you or listens to your words, as you leave that house or town, shake its dust off your feet.

isv@Matthew:10:15 @ Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!”

isv@Matthew:10:16 @ “See, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as serpents and as innocent as doves.

isv@Matthew:10:17 @ Watch out for people, for they will hand you over to the local councils and whip you in their synagogues.

isv@Matthew:10:18 @ Because of me you will be brought before governors and kings to testify to them and the Gentiles.

isv@Matthew:10:19 @ When they hand you over, don't worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say, for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you.

isv@Matthew:10:20 @ For it won't be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking throughyou.

isv@Matthew:10:21 @ “Brother will hand brother over to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death.

isv@Matthew:10:22 @ You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

isv@Matthew:10:23 @ So when they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. For truly I tell you, you certainly will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

isv@Matthew:10:24 @ “A disciple is not above his teacher, and a slave is not above his master.

isv@Matthew:10:25 @ It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher and a slave to be like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they do the same tothose of his household!”

isv@Matthew:10:26 @ “So never be afraid of them. For there is nothing covered that will not be exposed, and nothing secret that will not be made known.

isv@Matthew:10:27 @ What I tell you in darkness you must speak in the daylight, and what is whisperedin your ear you must shout from the housetops.

isv@Matthew:10:28 @ Stop beingafraid of those who kill the body but can't kill the soul. Instead, be afraid of the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell.

isv@Matthew:10:29 @ “Two sparrows are sold for a penny, aren't they? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's permission.

isv@Matthew:10:30 @ Indeed, even the hairs on your head have all been counted!

isv@Matthew:10:31 @ So stop beingafraid. You are worth more than a bunch of sparrows.”

isv@Matthew:10:32 @ “Therefore, everyone who acknowledges me before people I, too, will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

isv@Matthew:10:33 @ But whoever denies me before people I, too, will deny before my Father in heaven.”

isv@Matthew:10:34 @ “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword!

isv@Matthew:10:35 @ For I came to turn‘a man against his father,a daughter against her mother,and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

isv@Matthew:10:36 @ A person's enemies will be members of his own family.’

isv@Matthew:10:37 @ “The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

isv@Matthew:10:38 @ The one who doesn't take up his cross and follow me isn't worthy of me.

isv@Matthew:10:39 @ Theone who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.”

isv@Matthew:10:40 @ “The one who receives you receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me.

isv@Matthew:10:41 @ The one who receives a prophet asa prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person asa righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward.

isv@Matthew:10:42 @ Truly I tell you, whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he isa disciple will never lose his reward.”

isv@Matthew:11:1 @ When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he left there to teach and preach in their cities.

isv@Matthew:11:2 @ Now when John in prison heard about the activities of Christ, he sent a message by his disciples

isv@Matthew:11:3 @ and asked him, “Are you the Coming One, or should we wait for someone else?”

isv@Matthew:11:4 @ Jesus answered them,“Go and tell John what you hear and observe:

isv@Matthew:11:5 @ the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the destitute hear the good news.

isv@Matthew:11:6 @ How blessed is anyone who is not offended by me!”

isv@Matthew:11:7 @ As they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John.“What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

isv@Matthew:11:8 @ Really, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? See, those who wear fancy clothes live in kings’ houses.

isv@Matthew:11:9 @ Really, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet!

isv@Matthew:11:10 @ This is the man about whom it is written,‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,who will prepare your way before you.’

isv@Matthew:11:11 @ Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has appeared who is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

isv@Matthew:11:12 @ “From the days of John the Baptist until the present, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing,and violent people have been attacking it.

isv@Matthew:11:13 @ For the Law and all the Prophets prophesied up to the time of John,

isv@Matthew:11:14 @ and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.

isv@Matthew:11:15 @ Let the person who has earslisten!

isv@Matthew:11:16 @ “To what can I compare this generation? It's like little children who sit in the marketplaces and shout to each other,

isv@Matthew:11:17 @ ‘A wedding song we played for you,the dance you did but scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too,but then you would not mourn.’

isv@Matthew:11:18 @ For John didn't come eating or drinking, yetpeoplesay, ‘He has a demon!’

isv@Matthew:11:19 @ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’Absolved from every act of sin,is wisdom by her kith and kin.”

isv@Matthew:11:20 @ Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had taken place, because they didn't repent.

isv@Matthew:11:21 @ “How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

isv@Matthew:11:22 @ Indeed I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!

isv@Matthew:11:23 @ And you, Capernaum! You won't be lifted up to heaven, will you? You'll go down to Hades!For if the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

isv@Matthew:11:24 @ Indeed I tell you, it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!”

isv@Matthew:11:25 @ At that time Jesus said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants.

isv@Matthew:11:26 @ Yes, Father, for this is what was pleasing to you.

isv@Matthew:11:27 @ All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one fully knows the Son except the Father, and no one fully knows the Father except the Son and the person to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

isv@Matthew:11:28 @ “Come to me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest.

isv@Matthew:11:29 @ Place my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

isv@Matthew:11:30 @ For my yoke is pleasant,and my burden is light.”

isv@Matthew:12:1 @ At that time Jesus walked through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples became hungry and began picking heads of grain to eat.

isv@Matthew:12:2 @ When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

isv@Matthew:12:3 @ But he said to them,“Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

isv@Matthew:12:4 @ How is it that he went into the house of God and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for him and his companions to eat but was reservedfor the priests?

isv@Matthew:12:5 @ Or haven't you read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

isv@Matthew:12:6 @ But I tell you, something greater than the temple is here!

isv@Matthew:12:7 @ If you had known what ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice’means, you would not have condemned the innocent.

isv@Matthew:12:8 @ For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

isv@Matthew:12:9 @ Moving on from there, Jesus went into their synagogue.

isv@Matthew:12:10 @ Suddenly a man with a paralyzed hand appeared. The people asked Jesus if it was lawful to heal on the Sabbath, intending to accuse him of doing something wrong.

isv@Matthew:12:11 @ But he said to them,“Is there a man among you who, if he had one sheep and it fell into a ditch on the Sabbath, wouldn't take hold of it and pull it out?

isv@Matthew:12:12 @ How much more is a human being worth than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

isv@Matthew:12:13 @ Then he said to the man,“Hold out your hand.” He held it out and it became normal, as healthy as the other.

isv@Matthew:12:14 @ The Pharisees, however, went out and plotted against Jesus to kill him.

isv@Matthew:12:15 @ When Jesus became aware of this, he left that place. Many crowds followed him, and he healed all of them,

isv@Matthew:12:16 @ ordering them not to make him known.

isv@Matthew:12:17 @ This was to fulfill what was declared by the prophet Isaiah when he said,

isv@Matthew:12:18 @ “Here is my Servant whom I have chosen,whom I love, and with whom my soul is pleased! I will put my Spirit on him,and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.

isv@Matthew:12:19 @ He will not quarrel or shout,and no one will hear his voice in the streets.

isv@Matthew:12:20 @ He will not snap off a broken reedor snuff out a smoldering wickuntil he brings justice to victory.

isv@Matthew:12:21 @ And in his name the Gentiles will hope.”

isv@Matthew:12:22 @ Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and unable to talk was brought to him. Jesus healed him so that the man could speak and see.

isv@Matthew:12:23 @ All the crowds were amazed and kept saying, “This man isn't the Son of David, is he?”

isv@Matthew:12:24 @ But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man drives out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”

isv@Matthew:12:25 @ He knew what they were thinking and said to them,“Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.

isv@Matthew:12:26 @ Soif Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How, then, can his kingdom stand?

isv@Matthew:12:27 @ IfI drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own followersdrive them out? That is why they will be your judges!

isv@Matthew:12:28 @ But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.

isv@Matthew:12:29 @ How can someone go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man? Then he can ransack his house.

isv@Matthew:12:30 @ “The person who isn't with me is against me, and the person who doesn't gather with me scatters.

isv@Matthew:12:31 @ So I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven,but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

isv@Matthew:12:32 @ Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.”

isv@Matthew:12:33 @ “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten. For a tree is known by its fruit.

isv@Matthew:12:34 @ You children of serpents! How can you say anything good when you are evil? For the mouth speaks out of the abundance of the heart.

isv@Matthew:12:35 @ A good person brings good things out of a good treasure, and an evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure.

isv@Matthew:12:36 @ I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give an account for every thoughtlessword they utter.

isv@Matthew:12:37 @ For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

isv@Matthew:12:38 @ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

isv@Matthew:12:39 @ But he replied to them,“An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign. Yet no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

isv@Matthew:12:40 @ For just as Jonah was in the stomach of the sea creature for three days and three nights,so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

isv@Matthew:12:41 @ The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. But look—something greater than Jonah is here!

isv@Matthew:12:42 @ The queen of the south will stand up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. But look—something greater than Solomon is here!”

isv@Matthew:12:43 @ “Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through waterless places looking for a place to rest but finds none.

isv@Matthew:12:44 @ Then it says, ‘I will go back to my home that I left.’ When it arrives, it finds it empty, swept clean, and put in order.

isv@Matthew:12:45 @ Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That's just what will happen to this evil generation!”

isv@Matthew:12:46 @ While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him.

isv@Matthew:12:47 @ Someone told him, “Look! Your mother and your brothers are standing outside asking to speak to you.”

isv@Matthew:12:48 @ He asked the man who told him,“Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”

isv@Matthew:12:49 @ Then pointing with his hand at his disciples, he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers!

isv@Matthew:12:50 @ For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

isv@Matthew:13:1 @ That day Jesus left the house and sat down beside the sea.

isv@Matthew:13:2 @ Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, while the entire crowd stood on the shore.

isv@Matthew:13:3 @ Then he began to tell them many things in parables. He said,“Listen! A sower went out to sow.

isv@Matthew:13:4 @ As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, and birds came and ate them up.

isv@Matthew:13:5 @ Other seeds fell on stony ground, where they did not have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once because the soil wasn't deep.

isv@Matthew:13:6 @ Butwhen the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they did not have any roots, they dried up.

isv@Matthew:13:7 @ Other seeds fell among thornbushes, and the thornbushes came up and choked them.

isv@Matthew:13:8 @ But other seeds fell on good soil and produced a crop, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.

isv@Matthew:13:9 @ Let the person who hasearslisten!”

isv@Matthew:13:10 @ Then the disciples came and said to Jesus, “Why do you speak to people in parables?”

isv@Matthew:13:11 @ He answered them,“You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but it hasn't been given to them.

isv@Matthew:13:12 @ For to anyone who has something, more will be given, and he will have more than enough. But from the one who doesn't have anything, even whathe has will be taken away from him.

isv@Matthew:13:13 @ That's why I speak to them in parables, because‘they look but don't see,and they listen but don't hear or understand.’

isv@Matthew:13:14 @ “With them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says:‘You will listen and listen but never understand.You will look and look but never comprehend.

isv@Matthew:13:15 @ For this people's heart has become dull,and their ears are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyesso that they might not see with their eyes,and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn,and I would heal them.’

isv@Matthew:13:16 @ “How blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear!

isv@Matthew:13:17 @ For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see but did not see them, and to hear the things you hear but did not hear them.”

isv@Matthew:13:18 @ “Listen, then, to the parable about the sower.

isv@Matthew:13:19 @ When anyone hears the word about the kingdom yet doesn't understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

isv@Matthew:13:20 @ As for what was sown on the stony ground, this is the person who hears the word and accepts it at once with joy,

isv@Matthew:13:21 @ but since he doesn't have any root in himself, he lasts for only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes along because of the word, he immediately falls away.

isv@Matthew:13:22 @ As for what was sown among the thornbushes, this is the person who hears the word, but the worries of life and the deceitful pleasures of wealth choke the word so that it can't produce a crop.

isv@Matthew:13:23 @ But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word, understands it, and produces a crop that yields a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

isv@Matthew:13:24 @ He presented another parable to them, saying,“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

isv@Matthew:13:25 @ While people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

isv@Matthew:13:26 @ When the crop came up and bore grain, the weeds appeared, too.

isv@Matthew:13:27 @ Theowner's servants came and said to him, ‘Master, you sowed good seed in your field, didn't you? Then where did these weeds come from?’

isv@Matthew:13:28 @ He told them, ‘An enemy did this!’ The servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and pull them out?’

isv@Matthew:13:29 @ He said, ‘No, for if you pull out the weeds, you might pull out the wheat with them.

isv@Matthew:13:30 @ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles for burning, but bring the wheat into my barn.”’”

isv@Matthew:13:31 @ He presented another parable to them, saying,“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.

isv@Matthew:13:32 @ Although it is the smallestofall seeds, when it is fully grown it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, and the birds in the sky come and nest in its branches.”

isv@Matthew:13:33 @ He told them another parable:“The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed withthree measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

isv@Matthew:13:34 @ Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

isv@Matthew:13:35 @ This was to fulfill what was declared by the prophet when he said, “I will open my mouth to speak in parables.I will declare what has been hiddenfrom the foundation of the world.”

isv@Matthew:13:36 @ Then Jesus left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable about the weeds in the field.”

isv@Matthew:13:37 @ He answered,“The person who sowed good seed is the Son of Man,

isv@Matthew:13:38 @ while the field is the world. The good seed are those who belong tothe kingdom, while the weeds are those who belong tothe evil one.

isv@Matthew:13:39 @ The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.

isv@Matthew:13:40 @ Just as weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at end oftheage.

isv@Matthew:13:41 @ The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes others to sin and those who practice lawlessness

isv@Matthew:13:42 @ and they will throw them into a blazing furnace. In that place there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

isv@Matthew:13:43 @ Thenthe righteous will shine like the sun in their Father's kingdom. Letthe person who has earslisten!”

isv@Matthew:13:44 @ “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field that a man found and hid. In his joy he went and sold everything he had and bought that field.”

isv@Matthew:13:45 @ “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.

isv@Matthew:13:46 @ When he found a very valuable pearl, he went and sold everything he had and bought it.”

isv@Matthew:13:47 @ “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a large net thrown into the sea that gathered all kinds of fish.

isv@Matthew:13:48 @ When it was full, the fishermenhauled it ashore. Then they sat down, sorted the good fish into containers, and threw the bad ones away.

isv@Matthew:13:49 @ That is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the evil from the righteous

isv@Matthew:13:50 @ and will throw them into a blazing furnace. In that place there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”

isv@Matthew:13:51 @ “Do you understand all these things?”They said to him, “Yes.”

isv@Matthew:13:52 @ Then he told them,“That is why every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings both new and old things out of his treasure chest.”

isv@Matthew:13:53 @ When Jesus had finished these parables, he left that place.

isv@Matthew:13:54 @ He went to his hometown and began teaching the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were amazed and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miracles?

isv@Matthew:13:55 @ This is the builder's son, isn't it? His mother is named Mary, isn't she? His brothers are James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas, aren't they?

isv@Matthew:13:56 @ And his sisters are all with us, aren't they? So where did this man get all these things?”

isv@Matthew:13:57 @ And they were offended by him.But Jesus told them,“A prophet is without honor only in his hometown and in his own home.”

isv@Matthew:13:58 @ He did not perform many miracles there because of their unbelief.

isv@Matthew:14:1 @ At that time Herod the tetrarch, hearing about the fame of Jesus,

isv@Matthew:14:2 @ said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist! He has been raised from the dead, and that's why these miracles are at work in him.”

isv@Matthew:14:3 @ For Herod had arrested John, bound him with chains, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife

isv@Matthew:14:4 @ For John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

isv@Matthew:14:5 @ Although Herod wanted to kill him, he was afraid of the crowd, since they regarded John as a prophet.

isv@Matthew:14:6 @ But when Herod's birthday celebration was held, the daughter of Herodias danced before the guests. She pleased Herod

isv@Matthew:14:7 @ so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked for.

isv@Matthew:14:8 @ Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me, right here on a platter, the head of John the Baptist.”

isv@Matthew:14:9 @ Though the king was saddened at this, because of his oaths and his guests he ordered it to be given.

isv@Matthew:14:10 @ So he sent word and had John beheaded in prison.

isv@Matthew:14:11 @ His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she took it to her mother.

isv@Matthew:14:12 @ When John's disciples came, they carried off the body and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus.

isv@Matthew:14:13 @ When Jesus heard this, he left that place and went by boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the towns.

isv@Matthew:14:14 @ When he got out of the boat, he saw a large crowd. He had compassion for them and healed their sick.

isv@Matthew:14:15 @ Now when evening came, the disciples went to him and said, “This is a deserted place, and it's already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

isv@Matthew:14:16 @ But Jesus said to them,“They don't need to go away. You give them something to eat.”

isv@Matthew:14:17 @ They told him, “We don't have anything here except five loaves of bread and two fish.”

isv@Matthew:14:18 @ He said,“Bring them here to me.”

isv@Matthew:14:19 @ Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

isv@Matthew:14:20 @ All of them ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up what was left of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.

isv@Matthew:14:21 @ Now those who had eaten were about 5,000 men, besides women and children.

isv@Matthew:14:22 @ Jesus immediately had the disciples get into a boat and cross to the other side ahead of him, while he sent the crowds away.

isv@Matthew:14:23 @ After dismissing the crowds, he went up on a hillside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.

isv@Matthew:14:24 @ By this time the boat was in the middle of the sea and was being battered by the waves, for the wind was against them.

isv@Matthew:14:25 @ Shortly before dawn he came to them, walking on the sea.

isv@Matthew:14:26 @ When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified and said, “It's a ghost!” And they screamed in terror.

isv@Matthew:14:27 @ Immediately Jesus said to them,“Have courage! It is I. Stop being afraid!”

isv@Matthew:14:28 @ Peter answered him, “Lord, if it's you, order me to come to you on the water.”

isv@Matthew:14:29 @ Jesus said,“Come on!” So Peter got down out of the boat, started walking on the water, and came to Jesus.

isv@Matthew:14:30 @ But when he noticed the strong wind, he was frightened. As he began to sink, he shouted, “Lord, save me!”

isv@Matthew:14:31 @ At once Jesus reached out his hand, caught him, and said to him,“You who have so little faith, why did you doubt?”

isv@Matthew:14:32 @ As they got into the boat, the wind stopped blowing.

isv@Matthew:14:33 @ Then the men in the boat began to worship Jesus, saying, “You certainly are the Son of God!”

isv@Matthew:14:34 @ They crossed over and came ashore at Gennesaret.

isv@Matthew:14:35 @ When the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word throughout that region and brought him all who were sick.

isv@Matthew:14:36 @ They kept begging him to let them touch just the tassel of his garment, and all who touched it were completely healed.

isv@Matthew:15:1 @ Then some Pharisees and scribes came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,

isv@Matthew:15:2 @ “Why do your disciples disregard the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat.”

isv@Matthew:15:3 @ But he answered them,“Why do you also disregard the commandment of God because of your tradition?

isv@Matthew:15:4 @ For God said,‘Honor your father and your mother,’and ‘Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.’

isv@Matthew:15:5 @ But you say ‘Whoever tells his father or his mother, “Whatever support you might have received from me has been given to God,”

isv@Matthew:15:6 @ does not have to honor his father.’Because of your tradition, then, you have revoked the authority of God's word.

isv@Matthew:15:7 @ You hypocrites! How well did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said,

isv@Matthew:15:8 @ ‘These people honor me with their lips,but their hearts are far from me.

isv@Matthew:15:9 @ Their worship of me is empty,because they teach human rules as doctrines.’”

isv@Matthew:15:10 @ Then he called to the crowd and said to them,“Listen and understand!

isv@Matthew:15:11 @ It is not what goes into the mouth that makes a person unclean. It is what comes out of the mouth that makes a person unclean.”

isv@Matthew:15:12 @ Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you realize that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?”

isv@Matthew:15:13 @ He replied,“Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be pulled up by the roots.

isv@Matthew:15:14 @ Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind.If one blind person leads another blind person, both will fall into a ditch.”

isv@Matthew:15:15 @ Then Peter said to him, “Explain to us this parable.”

isv@Matthew:15:16 @ Jesus said,“Are you still so ignorant?

isv@Matthew:15:17 @ Don't you know that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is expelled as waste?

isv@Matthew:15:18 @ But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and it is those things that make a person unclean.

isv@Matthew:15:19 @ For it is out of the heart that evil thoughts come, as well as murder, adultery, sexual immorality, stealing, false testimony, and slander.

isv@Matthew:15:20 @ These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands doesn't make a person unclean.”

isv@Matthew:15:21 @ Then Jesus left that place and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

isv@Matthew:15:22 @ Suddenly a Canaanite woman from that territory came near and began to shout, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed!”

isv@Matthew:15:23 @ But he didn't answer her at all. Then his disciples came up and kept urging him, “Send her away, for she keeps on screaming after us.”

isv@Matthew:15:24 @ But he replied,“I was sent only to the lost sheep of the nationof Israel.”

isv@Matthew:15:25 @ Then she came and fell down before him, saying, “Lord, help me!”

isv@Matthew:15:26 @ He replied,“It is not rightto take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies.”

isv@Matthew:15:27 @ She said, “Yes, Lord. But even the puppies eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ tables.”

isv@Matthew:15:28 @ Then Jesus answered her,“O woman, your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you want.” That very hour her daughter was healed.

isv@Matthew:15:29 @ Jesus left there and went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a hillside and sat down there.

isv@Matthew:15:30 @ Large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, those unable to talk, and many others. They placed them at his feet, and he healed them.

isv@Matthew:15:31 @ As a result, the crowd was amazed to see those who were unable to talk speaking, the crippled healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. So they praised the God of Israel.

isv@Matthew:15:32 @ Then Jesus called his disciples and said,“I have compassion for the crowd because they have already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away without food, or they may faint on the road.”

isv@Matthew:15:33 @ The disciples asked him, “Where in the wilderness are we to get enough bread to feed such a crowd?”

isv@Matthew:15:34 @ Jesus said to them,“How many loaves of bread do you have?”They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”

isv@Matthew:15:35 @ Ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground,

isv@Matthew:15:36 @ he took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks. Then he broke them in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

isv@Matthew:15:37 @ All of them ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up what was left of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.

isv@Matthew:15:38 @ Now those who had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.

isv@Matthew:15:39 @ After he sent the crowds away, he got into a boat and went to the region of Magadan.

isv@Matthew:16:1 @ When the Pharisees and Sadducees arrived, as a test they asked Jesus to show them a sign from heaven.

isv@Matthew:16:2 @ He replied to them,“You say,‘Red sky at night,what a delight!

isv@Matthew:16:3 @ Red sky in the morning,cloudy and storming.’You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, yet you can't interpret the signs of the times?

isv@Matthew:16:4 @ An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.

isv@Matthew:16:5 @ When his disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to take any bread along.

isv@Matthew:16:6 @ Jesus said to them,“Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

isv@Matthew:16:7 @ They began to discuss this among themselves and said, “We didn't take any bread.”

isv@Matthew:16:8 @ Knowing this, Jesus said,“You who have little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you don't have any bread?

isv@Matthew:16:9 @ Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected,

isv@Matthew:16:10 @ or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many baskets you collected?

isv@Matthew:16:11 @ How can you fail to understand that I wasn't talking to you about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

isv@Matthew:16:12 @ Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the yeast used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

isv@Matthew:16:13 @ When Jesus had come to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,“Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

isv@Matthew:16:14 @ They said, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.

isv@Matthew:16:15 @ He said to them,“But who do you say I am?”

isv@Matthew:16:16 @ Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!”

isv@Matthew:16:17 @ Then Jesus said to him,“How blessed are you, Simon, son of John!For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven has.

isv@Matthew:16:18 @ I tell you that you are Peter,and it is on this rockthat I will build my church, and the forces of hellwill not overpower it.

isv@Matthew:16:19 @ I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you prohibit on earth will have beenprohibitedin heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will have been permittedin heaven.”

isv@Matthew:16:20 @ Then he strictly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

isv@Matthew:16:21 @ From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he would have to go to Jerusalem and suffer a great deal because of the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he would be killed, but on the third day he would be raised.

isv@Matthew:16:22 @ Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “God be merciful to you, Lord! This must never happen to you!”

isv@Matthew:16:23 @ But Jesus turned around and said to Peter,“Get behind me, Satan! You are an offenseto me, for you are not thinking God's thoughts but human thoughts!”

isv@Matthew:16:24 @ Then Jesus said to his disciples,“If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continually.

isv@Matthew:16:25 @ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

isv@Matthew:16:26 @ For what profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

isv@Matthew:16:27 @ TheSon of Man is going to come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay everyone according to what he has done.

isv@Matthew:16:28 @ Truly I tell you, some people standing here will not experiencedeath before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

isv@Matthew:17:1 @ Six days later, Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother John and led them up a high mountain by themselves.

isv@Matthew:17:2 @ His appearance was changed in front of them, his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light.

isv@Matthew:17:3 @ Suddenly, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Jesus.

isv@Matthew:17:4 @ Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it's good that we're here! If you want, I will set up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

isv@Matthew:17:5 @ He was still speaking when a bright cloud suddenly overshadowed them. A voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him. Keep on listening to him!”

isv@Matthew:17:6 @ When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were terrified.

isv@Matthew:17:7 @ But Jesus came up to them and touched them, saying,“Get up, and stop being afraid.”

isv@Matthew:17:8 @ When they raised their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus all by himself.

isv@Matthew:17:9 @ On their way down the mountain, Jesus ordered them,“Don't tell anyone about this vision until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”

isv@Matthew:17:10 @ So the disciples asked him, “Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

isv@Matthew:17:11 @ He answered them,“Elijah is indeed coming and will restore all things.

isv@Matthew:17:12 @ But I tell you that Elijah has already come, yet peopledid not recognize him and treated him just as they pleased. In the same way, the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.”

isv@Matthew:17:13 @ Then the disciples understood that he had been speaking to them about John the Baptist.

isv@Matthew:17:14 @ As they approached the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, knelt down in front of him,

isv@Matthew:17:15 @ and said, “Sir, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers terribly. Often he falls into fire and often into water.

isv@Matthew:17:16 @ I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn't heal him.”

isv@Matthew:17:17 @ Jesus replied,“You unbelieving and perverted generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!”

isv@Matthew:17:18 @ Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed that very hour.

isv@Matthew:17:19 @ Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn't we drive it out?”

isv@Matthew:17:20 @ He told them,“Because of your lack of faith.For truly I tell you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.

isv@Matthew:17:21 @ Butthis kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting.”

isv@Matthew:17:22 @ While they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus told them,“The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands.

isv@Matthew:17:23 @ They will kill him, but he will be raised on the third day.”Then they were filled with grief.

isv@Matthew:17:24 @ When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came up to Peter and said, “Your teacher pays the temple tax, doesn't he?”

isv@Matthew:17:25 @ He answered, “Yes.”When Peter went home, Jesus spoke to him first, saying,“What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings on the earth collect tolls or tributes? From their own subjects,or from foreigners?”

isv@Matthew:17:26 @ When he said, “From foreigners,” Jesus said to him,“In that case, the subjectsare exempt.

isv@Matthew:17:27 @ However, so that we don't offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, open itsmouth, and you will find a coin.Take it and give it to them for me and you.”

isv@Matthew:18:1 @ At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

isv@Matthew:18:2 @ Calling a little child forward, he had him stand among them.

isv@Matthew:18:3 @ Then he said,“Truly I tell you, unless you changeand become like little children, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven.

isv@Matthew:18:4 @ Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,

isv@Matthew:18:5 @ and whoever receives a little child like this in my name receives me.”

isv@Matthew:18:6 @ “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned at the bottom of the sea.

isv@Matthew:18:7 @ How terrible it will be for the world because it causes people to sin! Temptations to sin are bound to happen, but how terrible it will be for that person who causes someone to sin!

isv@Matthew:18:8 @ “So if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life injured or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

isv@Matthew:18:9 @ And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire.

isv@Matthew:18:10 @ “See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you, their angels in heaven always see the face ofmy Father in heaven.

isv@Matthew:18:11 @ For the Son of Man came to save the lost.”

isv@Matthew:18:12 @ “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, he leaves the ninety-nine in the hills and goes to look for the one that has strayed, doesn't he?

isv@Matthew:18:13 @ If he finds it, truly I tell you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that haven't strayed.

isv@Matthew:18:14 @ In the same way, it is not the will of yourFather in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.”

isv@Matthew:18:15 @ “If your brother sins against you,go and confront him while the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

isv@Matthew:18:16 @ But if he doesn't listen, take one or two others with you so that ‘every word may be confirmed by the testimonyof two or three witnesses.’

isv@Matthew:18:17 @ If, however, he ignores them, tell it to the congregation.If he also ignores the congregation, regard him as a Gentile and a tax collector.

isv@Matthew:18:18 @ “Truly I tell you, whatever you prohibit on earth will have been prohibitedin heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will have been permittedin heaven.

isv@Matthew:18:19 @ Furthermore, truly I tell you that if two of you agree on earth about anything you request, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.

isv@Matthew:18:20 @ For where two or three have come together in my name, I am there among them.”

isv@Matthew:18:21 @ Then Peter came up and asked him, “Lord, how many times may my brother sin against me and I have to forgive him? Seven times?”

isv@Matthew:18:22 @ Jesus said to him,“I tell you, not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!

isv@Matthew:18:23 @ “That is why the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

isv@Matthew:18:24 @ When he had begun to settle the accounts, a person who owed him ten thousand talentswas brought to him.

isv@Matthew:18:25 @ Because he couldn't pay, his master ordered him, his wife, his children, and all that he had to be sold so that payment could be made.

isv@Matthew:18:26 @ Then the servant fell down and bowed low before him, saying, ‘Be patientwith me, and I will repay you everything!’

isv@Matthew:18:27 @ The master of that servant had compassion and released him, canceling his debt.

isv@Matthew:18:28 @ “But when that servant went away, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii.He grabbed him, seized him by the throat, and said, ‘Pay what you owe!’

isv@Matthew:18:29 @ Then his fellow servant fell down and began begging him, ‘Be patient with me and I will repay you!’

isv@Matthew:18:30 @ But he refused and went and had him thrown into prison until he could repay the debt.

isv@Matthew:18:31 @ “When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were very disturbed and went and reported to their master all that had occurred.

isv@Matthew:18:32 @ Then his master sent for him and said to him, ‘You evil servant! I canceled that entire debt for you because you begged me.

isv@Matthew:18:33 @ Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?’

isv@Matthew:18:34 @ In anger his master handed him over to the torturersuntil he could repay the entire debt.

isv@Matthew:18:35 @ This is how my heavenly Father will treat each one of you unless you forgive your brother from your hearts.”

isv@Matthew:19:1 @ When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan.

isv@Matthew:19:2 @ Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

isv@Matthew:19:3 @ Some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

isv@Matthew:19:4 @ He answered them,“Haven't you read that the one who madethem at the beginning ‘made them male and female’

isv@Matthew:19:5 @ and said, ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

isv@Matthew:19:6 @ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate.”

isv@Matthew:19:7 @ They asked him, “Why, then, did Moses order us ‘to give a certificate of divorce and divorce her’?”

isv@Matthew:19:8 @ He said to them,“It was because of your hardness of heart that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning it was not this way.

isv@Matthew:19:9 @ Itell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

isv@Matthew:19:10 @ His disciples said to him, “If that is the relationship of a man with his wife, it's not worth getting married!”

isv@Matthew:19:11 @ But he said to them,“Not everyone can accept this saying, except those to whom celibacyhas been granted.

isv@Matthew:19:12 @ For some men are celibate from birth,while others are celibate because they have been made that way by others. Still others are celibate because they have made themselves that way for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”

isv@Matthew:19:13 @ Then some little children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

isv@Matthew:19:14 @ Jesus, however, said,“Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away. For the kingdom of heaven belongs to people like these.”

isv@Matthew:19:15 @ When he had laid his hands on them, he went on from there.

isv@Matthew:19:16 @ Just then a man came up to Jesus and said, “Teacher, what good deed should I do to have eternal life?”

isv@Matthew:19:17 @ Jesus said to him,“Why ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good.If you want to get into that life, you must keep the commandments.”

isv@Matthew:19:18 @ The young man said to him, “Which ones?”Jesus said,“‘You must not murder,you must not commit adultery,you must not steal,you must not give false testimony,

isv@Matthew:19:19 @ honor your father and mother,’and ‘you must love your neighbor as yourself.’”

isv@Matthew:19:20 @ The young man said to him, “I have kept all of these. What do I still lack?”

isv@Matthew:19:21 @ Jesus said to him,“If you want to be perfect, go and sell what you own and give the moneyto the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me.”

isv@Matthew:19:22 @ But when the young man heard this statement he went away sad, because he had many possessions.

isv@Matthew:19:23 @ Then Jesus said to his disciples,“Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to get into the kingdom of heaven.

isv@Matthew:19:24 @ Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God.”

isv@Matthew:19:25 @ When the disciples heard this, they were completely astonished and said, “Who, then, can be saved?”

isv@Matthew:19:26 @ Jesus looked at them intently and said,“For humans this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.”

isv@Matthew:19:27 @ Then Peter said to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you. So what will we get?”

isv@Matthew:19:28 @ Jesus said to them,“Truly I tell you, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne in the renewed creation, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, governing the twelve tribes of Israel.

isv@Matthew:19:29 @ In fact, everyone who has left his homes, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or fields because of my name will receive a hundred times as muchand will inherit eternal life.

isv@Matthew:19:30 @ But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”

isv@Matthew:20:1 @ “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

isv@Matthew:20:2 @ After agreeing with the workers for one denariusa day, he sent them into his vineyard.

isv@Matthew:20:3 @ When he went out about nine o'clock,he saw others standing in the marketplace without work.

isv@Matthew:20:4 @ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard, too, and I will pay you whatever is right.’

isv@Matthew:20:5 @ So off they went. He went out again about noonand about three o'clockand did the same thing.

isv@Matthew:20:6 @ About five o'clockhe went out andfound some others standing around. He said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day long without work?’

isv@Matthew:20:7 @ They told him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard as well.’

isv@Matthew:20:8 @ “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last and ending withthe first.’

isv@Matthew:20:9 @ Those who were hired at five o'clockcame, and each received a denarius.

isv@Matthew:20:10 @ When the first came, they thought they would receive more, but each received a denarius as well.

isv@Matthew:20:11 @ When they received it, they began to complain to the landowner,

isv@Matthew:20:12 @ saying, ‘These last fellows worked only one hour, yet you have made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

isv@Matthew:20:13 @ But he said to one of them, ‘Friend, I'm not treating you unfairly. You did agree with me for a denarius, didn't you?

isv@Matthew:20:14 @ Take what is yours and go. I want to give this last man as much as I gave you.

isv@Matthew:20:15 @ I am allowed to do what I want with my own money,am I not? Or is your eye evilbecause I am good?’

isv@Matthew:20:16 @ In the same way, the last will be first, and the first will be last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

isv@Matthew:20:17 @ When Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and said to them on the way,

isv@Matthew:20:18 @ “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death.

isv@Matthew:20:19 @ Then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked, whipped, and crucified, but on the third day he will be raised.”

isv@Matthew:20:20 @ Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons. She bowed down in front of him to ask him for a favor.

isv@Matthew:20:21 @ He asked her,“What do you want?”She said to him, “Promise that these two sons of mine will sit, one at your right and one at your left, in your kingdom.”

isv@Matthew:20:22 @ Jesus replied,“You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from?”They told him, “We can.”

isv@Matthew:20:23 @ He said to them,“You will indeed drink from my cup. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right hand or at my left. These positions have already been prepared for others by my Father.”

isv@Matthew:20:24 @ When the ten heard this, they became furious with the two brothers.

isv@Matthew:20:25 @ But Jesus called the disciples and said,“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their superiors act like tyrants over them.

isv@Matthew:20:26 @ That's not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

isv@Matthew:20:27 @ and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave.

isv@Matthew:20:28 @ That's the way it is with the Son of Man. He did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people.”

isv@Matthew:20:29 @ As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Jesus.

isv@Matthew:20:30 @ When two blind men who were sitting by the roadside heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted, “Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!”

isv@Matthew:20:31 @ The crowd sternly told them to be silent, but they shouted even louder, “Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!”

isv@Matthew:20:32 @ Jesus stopped and called them, saying,“What do you want me to do for you?”

isv@Matthew:20:33 @ They told him, “Lord, let our eyes be opened!”

isv@Matthew:20:34 @ Then Jesus, deeply moved with compassion, touched their eyes and at once they could see again. So they followed him.

isv@Matthew:21:1 @ When they came near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples on ahead and

isv@Matthew:21:2 @ said to them,“Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied up and a colt with it. Untie them, and bring them to me.

isv@Matthew:21:3 @ If anyone says anything to you, tell him, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and that person will send them at once.”

isv@Matthew:21:4 @ Now this happened to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet when he said,

isv@Matthew:21:5 @ “Tell the daughter of Zion,‘Look, your king is coming to you! He is humble and mounted on a donkey,even on a colt of a donkey.’”

isv@Matthew:21:6 @ So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.

isv@Matthew:21:7 @ They brought the donkey and the colt and put their coats on them, and he sat upon them.

isv@Matthew:21:8 @ Many people in the crowd spread their own coats on the road, while others began cutting down branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

isv@Matthew:21:9 @ Both the crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed him kept shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! How blessed is the one who comesin the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

isv@Matthew:21:10 @ When he came into Jerusalem, the whole city was trembling with excitement. The people were asking, “Who is this?”

isv@Matthew:21:11 @ The crowds kept saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, the man from Nazareth in Galilee.”

isv@Matthew:21:12 @ Then Jesus went into the temple, threw out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.

isv@Matthew:21:13 @ He told them,“It is written, ‘My house is to be called a house of prayer,’but you are turning it into a hideoutfor bandits!”

isv@Matthew:21:14 @ Blind and lame people came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

isv@Matthew:21:15 @ But when the high priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he had done and the children shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became furious

isv@Matthew:21:16 @ and asked him, “Do you hear what these people are saying?”Jesus said to them,“Yes! Haven't you ever read, ‘From the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have created praise’?”

isv@Matthew:21:17 @ Then he left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

isv@Matthew:21:18 @ In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, he became hungry.

isv@Matthew:21:19 @ Seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it,“May fruit never come from you again!” And immediately the fig tree dried up.

isv@Matthew:21:20 @ When the disciples saw this, they were amazed and said, “How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?”

isv@Matthew:21:21 @ Jesus answered them,“Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you be able to do what has been done to the fig tree, but you will also say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen.

isv@Matthew:21:22 @ You will receive whatever you ask for in prayer, if you believe.”

isv@Matthew:21:23 @ Then Jesus went into the temple. While he was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came to him and asked, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”

isv@Matthew:21:24 @ Jesus answered them,“I, too, will ask you one question.If you answer it for me, I will also tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

isv@Matthew:21:25 @ Where did John's authority to baptizecome from? From heaven or from humans?”They began discussing this among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Then why didn't you believe him?’

isv@Matthew:21:26 @ But if we say, ‘From humans,’ we are afraid of the crowd, for all regard John as a prophet.”

isv@Matthew:21:27 @ So they said to Jesus, “We don't know.”He in turn told them,“Then I won't tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

isv@Matthew:21:28 @ “But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

isv@Matthew:21:29 @ His sonreplied, ‘I don't want to,’ but later he changed his mind and went.

isv@Matthew:21:30 @ Then the fatherwent to the other sonand told him the same thing. He replied, ‘I will,sir,’ but he didn't go.

isv@Matthew:21:31 @ Which of the two did the father's will?”They answered, “The first.”Jesus said to them,“Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes will get into God's kingdom ahead of you.

isv@Matthew:21:32 @ For John came to you in the way of righteousness, but you didn't believe him. The tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. But even when you saw that, you didn't change your mindsat last and believe him.”

isv@Matthew:21:33 @ “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.

isv@Matthew:21:34 @ When harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenant farmers to collect his produce.

isv@Matthew:21:35 @ But the farmers took his servants and beat one, killed another, and attacked another with stones.

isv@Matthew:21:36 @ Again, he sent other servants to them, a greater number than the first, but the tenant farmerstreated them the same way.

isv@Matthew:21:37 @ Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’

isv@Matthew:21:38 @ But when the tenant farmers saw his son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him and get his inheritance!’

isv@Matthew:21:39 @ So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

isv@Matthew:21:40 @ Now when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those farmers?”

isv@Matthew:21:41 @ They said to him, “He will put those horrible men to a horrible death. Then he will lease the vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at harvest time.”

isv@Matthew:21:42 @ Jesus said to them,“Have you never read in the Scriptures,‘The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing,and it is amazing in our eyes’?

isv@Matthew:21:43 @ That is why I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce fruit for it.

isv@Matthew:21:44 @ The person who falls over this stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”

isv@Matthew:21:45 @ When the high priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was talking about them.

isv@Matthew:21:46 @ Although they wanted to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, for they considered him a prophet.

isv@Matthew:22:1 @ Again Jesus spoke to them in parables. He said,

isv@Matthew:22:2 @ “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

isv@Matthew:22:3 @ He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.

isv@Matthew:22:4 @ Sohe sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look, I've prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened calves have been slaughtered. Everything is ready. Come to the wedding!”’

isv@Matthew:22:5 @ But they paid no attention to this and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

isv@Matthew:22:6 @ Therest grabbed theking'sservants, treated them brutally, and then killed them.

isv@Matthew:22:7 @ Then the king became outraged. He sent his troops, and they destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

isv@Matthew:22:8 @ “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

isv@Matthew:22:9 @ So go into the roads leading out of town and invite as many people as you can find to the wedding.’

isv@Matthew:22:10 @ Those servants went out into the streets and brought in all the people they found, evil and good alike, and the wedding hall was packed with guests.

isv@Matthew:22:11 @ “When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

isv@Matthew:22:12 @ He said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the manwas speechless.

isv@Matthew:22:13 @ Then the king told his servants, ‘Tie his hands and feet, and throw him into the outer darkness! In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

isv@Matthew:22:14 @ For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

isv@Matthew:22:15 @ Then the Pharisees went and planned how to trap Jesus in conversation.

isv@Matthew:22:16 @ They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. They said, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere and that you teach the way of God truthfully. You don't favor any individual, for you pay no attention to external appearance.

isv@Matthew:22:17 @ So tell us what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

isv@Matthew:22:18 @ But Jesus recognized their wickedness and said,“Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?

isv@Matthew:22:19 @ Show me the coin used for the tax.”They brought him a denarius.

isv@Matthew:22:20 @ Then he asked them,“Whose face and name is this?”

isv@Matthew:22:21 @ They said to him, “Caesar's.”So he said to them,“Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

isv@Matthew:22:22 @ When they heard this, they were amazed. Then they left him and went away.

isv@Matthew:22:23 @ That same day some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him,

isv@Matthew:22:24 @ “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for his brother.’

isv@Matthew:22:25 @ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother.

isv@Matthew:22:26 @ The same thing happened with the second brother, and then the third, and finally with the rest of the brothers.

isv@Matthew:22:27 @ Finally, the woman died, too.

isv@Matthew:22:28 @ Now in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be, since all of them had married her?”

isv@Matthew:22:29 @ Jesus answered them,“You are mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power.

isv@Matthew:22:30 @ For in the resurrection, peopleneither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angelsin heaven.

isv@Matthew:22:31 @ As for the resurrection from the dead, haven't you read what was spoken to you by God when he said,

isv@Matthew:22:32 @ ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?Heis not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

isv@Matthew:22:33 @ When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.

isv@Matthew:22:34 @ When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they met together in the same place.

isv@Matthew:22:35 @ One of them, an expert in the law, tested him by asking,

isv@Matthew:22:36 @ “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”

isv@Matthew:22:37 @ Jesus said to him,“‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

isv@Matthew:22:38 @ This is the greatest and most importantcommandment.

isv@Matthew:22:39 @ The second is like it: ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’

isv@Matthew:22:40 @ All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments.”

isv@Matthew:22:41 @ While the Pharisees were still gathered, Jesus asked them,

isv@Matthew:22:42 @ “What do you think about the Christ?Whose son is he?”They told him, “David's.”

isv@Matthew:22:43 @ He asked them,“Then how can David by the Spirit call him ‘Lord’ when he says,

isv@Matthew:22:44 @ ‘The Lord said to my Lord,“Sit at my right hand,until I put your enemies under your feet”’?

isv@Matthew:22:45 @ If David calls him 'Lord', how can he be his son?”

isv@Matthew:22:46 @ No one could answer him at all, and from that day on no one dared to ask him another question.

isv@Matthew:23:1 @ Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

isv@Matthew:23:2 @ “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.

isv@Matthew:23:3 @ So do whatever they tell you and follow it, but stop doing what they do, because they don't do what they say.

isv@Matthew:23:4 @ They tie up burdens that are heavy and unbearable and lay them on people's shoulders, but they refuse to lift a finger to remove them.

isv@Matthew:23:5 @ “They do all their actions to be seen by people. They increase the size of their phylacteriesand lengthen the tassels of their garments.

isv@Matthew:23:6 @ They love to have the places of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

isv@Matthew:23:7 @ to be greeted in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi’by people.

isv@Matthew:23:8 @ “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’for you have only one teacher, and all of you are brothers.

isv@Matthew:23:9 @ And don't call anyone on earth ‘Father,’ for you have only one Father, the one in heaven.

isv@Matthew:23:10 @ Nor are you to be called ‘Teachers,’ for you have only one teacher, the Christ!

isv@Matthew:23:11 @ The person who is greatest among you must be your servant.

isv@Matthew:23:12 @ Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

isv@Matthew:23:13 @ “How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

isv@Matthew:23:15 @ “How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over sea and land to make a single convert, and when this happens you make him twice as fit forhellas you are.

isv@Matthew:23:16 @ “How terrible it will be for you, blind guides! You say, ‘Whoever swears an oath by the sanctuary is excused,but whoever swears an oath by the gold of the sanctuary must keep his oath.’

isv@Matthew:23:17 @ You blind fools! What is more important, the gold or the sanctuary that made the gold holy?

isv@Matthew:23:18 @ Again you say,‘Whoever swears an oath by the altar is excused,but whoever swears by the gift that is on it must keep his oath.’

isv@Matthew:23:19 @ You blind men!Which is more important, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?

isv@Matthew:23:20 @ Therefore, the one who swears an oath by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

isv@Matthew:23:21 @ The one who swears an oath by the sanctuary swears by it and by the one who lives there.

isv@Matthew:23:22 @ And the one who swears an oath by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.

isv@Matthew:23:23 @ “How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you give a tenth of your mint, dill, and cummin, but have neglected the more important matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness.These are the things you should have practiced, without neglecting the others.

isv@Matthew:23:24 @ You blind guides! You filter out a gnat, yet swallow a camel!

isv@Matthew:23:25 @ “How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but on the inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

isv@Matthew:23:26 @ You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup,so that its outside may also be clean.

isv@Matthew:23:27 @ “How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and every kind of impurity.

isv@Matthew:23:28 @ In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

isv@Matthew:23:29 @ “How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

isv@Matthew:23:30 @ Then you say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our ancestors, we would have had no part with them in sheddingthe blood of the prophets.’

isv@Matthew:23:31 @ Therefore, you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

isv@Matthew:23:32 @ Then finish what your ancestors started!

isv@Matthew:23:33 @ You snakes, you children of serpents! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

isv@Matthew:23:34 @ “That is why I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will whip in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.

isv@Matthew:23:35 @ As a result, you will be held accountable forall the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

isv@Matthew:23:36 @ Truly I tell you, all these things will happen to this generation.”

isv@Matthew:23:37 @ “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you didn't want to!

isv@Matthew:23:38 @ Look! Your house is left to you deserted!

isv@Matthew:23:39 @ For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

isv@Matthew:24:1 @ As Jesus left the temple and was walking away, his disciples came up to him to point out to him the temple buildings.

isv@Matthew:24:2 @ But he said to them,“You see all these things, don't you? Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another that will not be torn down.”

isv@Matthew:24:3 @ While Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things take place, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

isv@Matthew:24:4 @ Jesus answered them,“See to it that no one deceives you.

isv@Matthew:24:5 @ For many will come in my name and say, ‘I am the Christ,’and they will deceive many people.

isv@Matthew:24:6 @ You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you are not alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet.

isv@Matthew:24:7 @ For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

isv@Matthew:24:8 @ But all these things are only the beginning of the birth pains.”

isv@Matthew:24:9 @ “Then they will hand you over to sufferingand will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nationsbecause of my name.

isv@Matthew:24:10 @ Then many people will fall by the way and will betray one another and hate one another.

isv@Matthew:24:11 @ Many false prophets will appear and deceive many people,

isv@Matthew:24:12 @ and because lawlessness will increase, the love of many people will grow cold.

isv@Matthew:24:13 @ But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

isv@Matthew:24:14 @ And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world as a testimony to all nations,and then the end will come.”

isv@Matthew:24:15 @ “So when you see the destructive desecration, mentioned by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place (let the reader take note),

isv@Matthew:24:16 @ then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

isv@Matthew:24:17 @ The person who is on the housetop must not come down to get what is in his house,

isv@Matthew:24:18 @ and the person who is in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

isv@Matthew:24:19 @ “How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

isv@Matthew:24:20 @ Pray that it may not be in winter or on a Sabbath when you flee.

isv@Matthew:24:21 @ For at that time there will be great suffering,the kind that has not happened from the beginning of the world until now and certainly will never happen again.

isv@Matthew:24:22 @ If those days had not been limited, no life would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be limited.

isv@Matthew:24:23 @ “At that time, if anyone says to you, ‘Look! Here is the Christ!’or ‘There he is!’, don't believe it.

isv@Matthew:24:24 @ For false christs and false prophets will appear and display great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

isv@Matthew:24:25 @ Remember, I have told you this beforehand.

isv@Matthew:24:26 @ So if they say to you, ‘Look! He's in the wilderness,’ don't go out looking for him.And if they say, ‘Look! He's in the storeroom,’ don't believe it.

isv@Matthew:24:27 @ For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

isv@Matthew:24:28 @ Wherever there's a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”

isv@Matthew:24:29 @ “Immediately after the sufferingof those days,‘The sun will be darkened,the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky,and the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.’

isv@Matthew:24:30 @ Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn when they see ‘the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven’ with power and great glory.

isv@Matthew:24:31 @ He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to another.”

isv@Matthew:24:32 @ “Now learn a lessonfrom the fig tree. When its branches become tender and it produces leaves, you know that summer is near.

isv@Matthew:24:33 @ In the same way, when you see all these things, you will know that he is near, right at the door.

isv@Matthew:24:34 @ “Truly I tell you, this generation will not disappear until these things happen.

isv@Matthew:24:35 @ Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.”

isv@Matthew:24:36 @ “No one knows when that day or hour will come—not the angels in heaven, nor the Son,but only the Father.

isv@Matthew:24:37 @ For just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be when the Son of Man comes.

isv@Matthew:24:38 @ In those days before the flood, peoplewere eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage right up to the day when Noah went into the ark.

isv@Matthew:24:39 @ They were unaware of what was happeninguntil the flood came and swept all of them away. That's how it will be when the Son of Man comes.

isv@Matthew:24:40 @ At that time two people will be in the field. One will be taken, and the other will be left behind.

isv@Matthew:24:41 @ Two women will be grinding grain at the mill. One will be taken, and the other will be left behind.

isv@Matthew:24:42 @ “So keep on watching, because you don't know on what day your Lord is coming.

isv@Matthew:24:43 @ But be sure of this: if the owner of the house had known at what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.

isv@Matthew:24:44 @ So you, too, must be ready, because at an hour you are not expecting him the Son of Man will come.”

isv@Matthew:24:45 @ “Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant whom his master has put in charge of his household to give the otherstheir food at the right time?

isv@Matthew:24:46 @ How blessed is that servant whom his master finds doing this when he comes!

isv@Matthew:24:47 @ Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his property.

isv@Matthew:24:48 @ “But if that wicked servant says to himself,‘My master has been delayed,’

isv@Matthew:24:49 @ and begins to beat his fellow servants and eat and drink with the drunks,

isv@Matthew:24:50 @ the master of that servant will come on a day when he doesn't expect him and at an hour that he doesn't know.

isv@Matthew:24:51 @ Then his masterwill punish him severelyand assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

isv@Matthew:25:1 @ “At that time, the kingdom of heaven will be compared to ten bridesmaidswho took their oil lamps and went out to meet the groom.

isv@Matthew:25:2 @ Now five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

isv@Matthew:25:3 @ For when the foolish ones took their lamps, they didn't take any oil with them.

isv@Matthew:25:4 @ But the wise ones took flasks of oil with their lamps.

isv@Matthew:25:5 @ Since the groom was late, all of them became sleepy and lay down.

isv@Matthew:25:6 @ “But at midnight there came a shout: ‘The groom is here! Come out to meet him!’

isv@Matthew:25:7 @ Then all the bridesmaidswoke up and got their lamps ready.

isv@Matthew:25:8 @ But the foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out!’

isv@Matthew:25:9 @ But the wise ones replied, ‘No! There will never be enough for us and for you. Better go to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’

isv@Matthew:25:10 @ “While they were away buying it, the groom arrived. Those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

isv@Matthew:25:11 @ Later the other bridesmaidsarrived and said, ‘Lord, lord, open up for us!’

isv@Matthew:25:12 @ But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don't know you!’

isv@Matthew:25:13 @ So keep on watching, because you don't know the day or the hour.”

isv@Matthew:25:14 @ “For it is like a man going on a trip who called his servants and turned his money over to them.

isv@Matthew:25:15 @ To one man he gave five talents,to another two, and to another one, based on their ability. Then he went on his trip.

isv@Matthew:25:16 @ “The one who received five talents went out at once and invested them and earned five more.

isv@Matthew:25:17 @ In the same way, the one who had two talents earned two more.

isv@Matthew:25:18 @ But the one who received one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money.

isv@Matthew:25:19 @ “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.

isv@Matthew:25:20 @ The one who had received five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, ‘Master, you gave me five talents. See, I've earned five more talents.’

isv@Matthew:25:21 @ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy servant! Since you have been trustworthy with a small amount, I will put you in charge of a large amount. Come and share your master's joy!’

isv@Matthew:25:22 @ “The one with two talents also came forward and said, ‘Master, you gave me two talents. See, I've earned two more talents.’

isv@Matthew:25:23 @ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy servant! Since you have been trustworthy with a small amount, I will put you in charge of a large amount. Come and share your master's joy!’

isv@Matthew:25:24 @ “Then the one who had received one talent came forward and said, ‘Master, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you haven't planted and gathering where you haven't scattered any seed.

isv@Matthew:25:25 @ Being afraid, I went off and hid your talent in the ground. Here, take what is yours!’

isv@Matthew:25:26 @ “His master answered him, ‘You evil and lazy servant! So you knew that I harvested where I haven't planted and gathered where I haven't scattered any seed?

isv@Matthew:25:27 @ Then you should have invested my money with the bankers. When I returned, I would have received my money back with interest.

isv@Matthew:25:28 @ Take the talent from him and give it to the man who has the ten talents.

isv@Matthew:25:29 @ For to everyone who has something, more will be given, and he will have more than enough. But from the person who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away from him.

isv@Matthew:25:30 @ Throw this useless servant into the outer darkness! In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’”

isv@Matthew:25:31 @ “When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels are with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.

isv@Matthew:25:32 @ All the nations will be assembled in front of him, and he will separate them from each other as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

isv@Matthew:25:33 @ He will put the sheep on his right but the goats on his left.

isv@Matthew:25:34 @ “Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

isv@Matthew:25:35 @ For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger, and you welcomed me.

isv@Matthew:25:36 @ I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you took care of me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’

isv@Matthew:25:37 @ “Then the righteous will say to him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and give you something to eat, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

isv@Matthew:25:38 @ When did we see you as a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?

isv@Matthew:25:39 @ When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’

isv@Matthew:25:40 @ The king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, in that you did it for one of the least important of these my brothers, you did it for me.’

isv@Matthew:25:41 @ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Get away from me, you who are accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

isv@Matthew:25:42 @ For I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink.

isv@Matthew:25:43 @ I was a stranger, and you didn't welcome me. I was naked, and you didn't clothe me. I was sick and in prison, and you didn't visit me.’

isv@Matthew:25:44 @ “Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or as a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and didn't help you?’

isv@Matthew:25:45 @ Then he will say to them, ‘Truly I tell you, in that you did not do it for one of the least important of these, you did not do it for me.’

isv@Matthew:25:46 @ These people will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will gointo eternal life.”

isv@Matthew:26:1 @ When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he told his disciples,

isv@Matthew:26:2 @ “You know that the Passover will take place in two days, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

isv@Matthew:26:3 @ Then the high priests and the elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

isv@Matthew:26:4 @ They conspired to arrest Jesus by treachery and to kill him.

isv@Matthew:26:5 @ But they kept saying, “This must not happen during the festival, lest there be a riot among the people.”

isv@Matthew:26:6 @ While Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper,

isv@Matthew:26:7 @ a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume and poured it on his head while he sat at the table.

isv@Matthew:26:8 @ But when the disciples saw this they became irritated and said, “Why this waste?

isv@Matthew:26:9 @ Surely this perfume could have been sold for a high price and the money given to the destitute.”

isv@Matthew:26:10 @ But knowing this, Jesus said to them,“Why are you bothering the woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me.

isv@Matthew:26:11 @ For you will always have the destitute with you, but you will not always have me.

isv@Matthew:26:12 @ When she poured this perfume on my body, she was preparing me for burial.

isv@Matthew:26:13 @ Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

isv@Matthew:26:14 @ Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the high priests

isv@Matthew:26:15 @ and said, “What are you willing to give me if I betray him to you?” They placed before him thirty pieces of silver,

isv@Matthew:26:16 @ and from then on he began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

isv@Matthew:26:17 @ On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples went to Jesus and said, “Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?”

isv@Matthew:26:18 @ He said,“Go to a certain man in the city and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near. I will celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.”’”

isv@Matthew:26:19 @ So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover meal.

isv@Matthew:26:20 @ When evening came, Jesus was sitting at the table with the twelve.

isv@Matthew:26:21 @ While they were eating, he said,“Truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”

isv@Matthew:26:22 @ Feeling deeply distressed, each one began to say to him, “Surely I am not the one, Lord?”

isv@Matthew:26:23 @ He replied,“The man who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.

isv@Matthew:26:24 @ The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born.”

isv@Matthew:26:25 @ Then Judas, who was going to betray him, said, “Rabbi, I'm not the one, am I?”Jesus said to him,“You have said so.”

isv@Matthew:26:26 @ While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and handed it to the disciples, saying,“Take this and eat it. This is my body.”

isv@Matthew:26:27 @ Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying,“Drink from it, all of you.

isv@Matthew:26:28 @ For this is my blood of the newcovenant that is being poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins.

isv@Matthew:26:29 @ I tell you, I will never again drink the product of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”

isv@Matthew:26:30 @ After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

isv@Matthew:26:31 @ Then Jesus said to them,“All of you will turn against me this very night. For it is written,‘I will strike the shepherd,and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

isv@Matthew:26:32 @ However, after I have been raised, I will go to Galilee ahead of you.”

isv@Matthew:26:33 @ But Peter said to him, “Even if everyone else turns against you, I certainly won't!”

isv@Matthew:26:34 @ Jesus said to him,“Truly I tell you, this very night, before a rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

isv@Matthew:26:35 @ Peter told him, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never deny you!” And all the disciples said the same thing.

isv@Matthew:26:36 @ Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane. He said to the disciples,“Sit down here while I go over there and pray.”

isv@Matthew:26:37 @ Taking Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him, he began to be grieved and troubled.

isv@Matthew:26:38 @ Then he said to them,“My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Wait here and stay awake with me.”

isv@Matthew:26:39 @ Going on a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed,“O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not what I want but what you want.”

isv@Matthew:26:40 @ When he went back to the disciples, he found them asleep. He said to Peter,“So, you mencouldn't stay awake with me for one hour, could you?

isv@Matthew:26:41 @ All of youmust stay awake and pray that you won't come into temptation. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak.”

isv@Matthew:26:42 @ He went away a second time and prayed,“My Father, if this cannot go away unless I drink it, let your will be done.”

isv@Matthew:26:43 @ Again he came back and found them asleep, for their eyes were very heavy.

isv@Matthew:26:44 @ After leaving them again, he went away and prayed again for the third time, saying the same thing.

isv@Matthew:26:45 @ Then he came back to the disciples and said to them,“You might as well keep on sleeping and resting.Look! The time is near for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

isv@Matthew:26:46 @ Getup! Let's go! See, the one who is betraying me is near!”

isv@Matthew:26:47 @ Just then, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. A large crowd armed with swords and clubs was with him. They were from the high priests and elders of the people.

isv@Matthew:26:48 @ Now the betrayer personally had given them a signal, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him.”

isv@Matthew:26:49 @ So Judas immediately went up to Jesus and said, “Hello, Rabbi!” and kissed him tenderly.

isv@Matthew:26:50 @ Jesus said to him,“Friend, why are you here?” Then the other men came forward, took hold of Jesus, and arrested him.

isv@Matthew:26:51 @ Suddenly, one of the men with Jesus reached out his hand, drew his sword, and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

isv@Matthew:26:52 @ Jesus said to him,“Put your sword back in its place! For all who use a sword will be killed by a sword.

isv@Matthew:26:53 @ Don't you think that I could call on my Father, and he would send me more than twelve legions of angels now?

isv@Matthew:26:54 @ How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say this must happen?”

isv@Matthew:26:55 @ At this point Jesus said to the crowds,“Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as if I were a bandit?Day after day I sat teaching in the temple, yet you didn't arrest me.

isv@Matthew:26:56 @ But all of this has happened so that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.”Then all the disciples deserted him and ran away.

isv@Matthew:26:57 @ Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had assembled.

isv@Matthew:26:58 @ Peter, however, followed him at a distance as far as the high priest's courtyard. He went inside and sat down with the servants to see how this would end.

isv@Matthew:26:59 @ Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death.

isv@Matthew:26:60 @ But they couldn't find any, even though many false witnesses had come forward. At last two men came forward

isv@Matthew:26:61 @ and stated, “This man said, ‘I can destroy the sanctuary of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

isv@Matthew:26:62 @ At this, the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?”

isv@Matthew:26:63 @ But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I command you by the living God to tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!”

isv@Matthew:26:64 @ Jesus said to him,“You have said so. Nevertheless I tell you,from now on‘you will see ‘the Son of Manseated at the right hand of Power’and‘coming on the clouds of heaven.’”

isv@Matthew:26:65 @ Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Look, you yourselves have just heard the blasphemy!

isv@Matthew:26:66 @ What is your verdict?”They replied, “He deserves to die!”

isv@Matthew:26:67 @ Then they spit in his face and hit him. Some slapped him,

isv@Matthew:26:68 @ saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is the one who hit you?”

isv@Matthew:26:69 @ Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard when a servant girl came up to him and said, “You, too, were with Jesus the Galilean.”

isv@Matthew:26:70 @ But he denied it in front of them all, saying, “I don't know what you're talking about.”

isv@Matthew:26:71 @ As he went out to the gateway, another woman saw him and said to those who were there, “This man was with Jesus from Nazareth.”

isv@Matthew:26:72 @ Again he denied it and swore with an oath, “I don't know the man!”

isv@Matthew:26:73 @ After a little while the people who were standing there came up and said to Peter, “Obviously you're also one of them, because your accent gives you away.”

isv@Matthew:26:74 @ Then he began to invoke a divine curse and to swear with an oath, “I don't know the man!” Just then a rooster crowed.

isv@Matthew:26:75 @ Peter remembered the words of Jesus when he said,“Before a rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went outside and cried bitterly.

isv@Matthew:27:1 @ When morning came, all the high priests and the elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put him to death.

isv@Matthew:27:2 @ They bound him with chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

isv@Matthew:27:3 @ Then Judas, who had betrayed him, regretted what had happened when he saw that Jesus was condemned. He brought the thirty pieces of silver back to the high priests and elders,

isv@Matthew:27:4 @ saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.”But they said, “What do we care? See to that yourself.”

isv@Matthew:27:5 @ Then he flung the pieces of silver into the sanctuary and went outside. Then he went away and hanged himself.

isv@Matthew:27:6 @ The high priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, because it is blood money.”

isv@Matthew:27:7 @ So they decided to use the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial ground for foreigners.

isv@Matthew:27:8 @ That is why that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

isv@Matthew:27:9 @ Then what had been declared through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled when he said, “They took the thirty pieces of silver,the value of the man on whom a price had been set by the Israelites,

isv@Matthew:27:10 @ and they gave them for the potter's field,as the Lord commanded me.”

isv@Matthew:27:11 @ Meanwhile, Jesus was made to stand in front of the governor. The governor asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”Jesus said,“You say so.”

isv@Matthew:27:12 @ While Jesus was being accused by the high priests and elders, he made no reply.

isv@Matthew:27:13 @ Then Pilate said to him, “Don't you hear how many charges they're bringing against you?”

isv@Matthew:27:14 @ But Jesus did not reply at all, so that the governor was very surprised.

isv@Matthew:27:15 @ At every festival the governor had a custom of releasing to the crowd any prisoner whom they wanted.

isv@Matthew:27:16 @ At that time they were holding a notorious prisoner named Barabbas.

isv@Matthew:27:17 @ So when the people had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which man do you want me to release for you—Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Christ?”

isv@Matthew:27:18 @ For he knew that they had handed him over because of jealousy.

isv@Matthew:27:19 @ While he was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him a message. It said, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I have suffered terribly because of a dream about him.”

isv@Matthew:27:20 @ But the high priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to demand that Jesus be put to death.

isv@Matthew:27:21 @ So the governor said to them, “Which of the two men do you want me to release for you?”They said, “Barabbas!”

isv@Matthew:27:22 @ Pilate said to them, “Then what should I do with Jesus, who is called the Christ?”They all said, “Let him be crucified!”

isv@Matthew:27:23 @ He asked, “What has he done wrong?”But they kept shouting louder and louder, “Let him be crucified!”

isv@Matthew:27:24 @ Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was about to break out instead. So he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man's blood. You must see to that yourselves.”

isv@Matthew:27:25 @ All the people answered, “Let his blood be on us and our children!”

isv@Matthew:27:26 @ Then he released Barabbas for them, but he had Jesus whipped and handed over to be crucified.

isv@Matthew:27:27 @ Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the imperial headquarters and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.

isv@Matthew:27:28 @ They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him.

isv@Matthew:27:29 @ Twisting some thorns into a victor's crown, they placed it on his head and put a stick in his right hand. They knelt down in front of him and began making fun of him, saying, “Long live the king of the Jews!”

isv@Matthew:27:30 @ Then they spit on him and took the stick and hit him repeatedly on his head.

isv@Matthew:27:31 @ When they had finished making fun of him, they stripped him of the robe, put his own clothes back on him, and led him away to crucify him.

isv@Matthew:27:32 @ As they were leaving, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry Jesus’ cross.

isv@Matthew:27:33 @ When they came to a place called Golgotha (which means “Skull Place”),

isv@Matthew:27:34 @ they offered him a drink of wine mixed with gall. But when he tasted it, he refused to drink it.

isv@Matthew:27:35 @ After they had crucified him, they divided his clothes by throwing dice.

isv@Matthew:27:36 @ Then they sat down there and continued guarding him.

isv@Matthew:27:37 @ Above his head they placed the charge against him. It read, “This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.”

isv@Matthew:27:38 @ At that time two bandits were crucified with him, one on his right and the other on his left.

isv@Matthew:27:39 @ Those who passed by kept insulting him, shaking their heads,

isv@Matthew:27:40 @ and saying, “You who were going to destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days—save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

isv@Matthew:27:41 @ In the same way the high priests, along with the scribes and elders, were also making fun of him. They kept saying,

isv@Matthew:27:42 @ “He saved others but can't save himself! He is the king of Israel. Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

isv@Matthew:27:43 @ He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he cares for him. After all, he said,‘I am the Son of God,’”

isv@Matthew:27:44 @ Even the bandits who were crucified with him kept insulting him in the same way.

isv@Matthew:27:45 @ Now from noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

isv@Matthew:27:46 @ About three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice,“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”, which means,“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

isv@Matthew:27:47 @ When some of the people standing there heard this, they said, “He's calling for Elijah.”

isv@Matthew:27:48 @ So one of the men at once ran off, took a sponge, and soaked it in some sour wine. Then he put it on a stick and offered Jesus a drink.

isv@Matthew:27:49 @ But the others kept saying, “Wait! Let's see if Elijah will come and save him.”

isv@Matthew:27:50 @ Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice again and gave up his spirit.

isv@Matthew:27:51 @ Suddenly the curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were split open,

isv@Matthew:27:52 @ the tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died were raised.

isv@Matthew:27:53 @ After his resurrection, they came out of their tombs and went into the Holy City and appeared to many people.

isv@Matthew:27:54 @ When the centurion and those guarding Jesus with him saw the earthquake and the other things that were taking place, they were terrified and said, “This man certainly was the Son of God!”

isv@Matthew:27:55 @ Now many women were also there, watching from a distance. They had accompanied Jesus from Galilee and had ministered to him.

isv@Matthew:27:56 @ Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

isv@Matthew:27:57 @ When evening came, a rich man arrived from Arimathea. His name was Joseph, and he had become a disciple of Jesus.

isv@Matthew:27:58 @ He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered it to be handed over.

isv@Matthew:27:59 @ So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth.

isv@Matthew:27:60 @ Then he placed it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone across the door of the tomb, he went away.

isv@Matthew:27:61 @ But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained there, sitting in front of the tomb.

isv@Matthew:27:62 @ The next day (which is after the Day of Preparation), the high priests and Pharisees gathered before Pilate

isv@Matthew:27:63 @ and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said while he was still alive,‘After three days I will be raised.’

isv@Matthew:27:64 @ Therefore, order the tomb to be secured until the third day, or his disciples may go and steal him and then tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead.’ Then the last deception would be worse than the first one.”

isv@Matthew:27:65 @ Pilate told them, “You have a military guard. Go and make the tomb as secure as you know how.”

isv@Matthew:27:66 @ So they went and secured the tomb by putting a seal on the stone in the presence of the guards.

isv@Matthew:28:1 @ After the Sabbath, around dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to take a look at the tomb.

isv@Matthew:28:2 @ Suddenly there was a powerful earthquake. For an angel of the Lord had come down from heaven, stepped forward, rolled the stone away, and was sitting on it.

isv@Matthew:28:3 @ His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were as white as snow.

isv@Matthew:28:4 @ Because they were so afraid of him, the guards shook and became like dead men.

isv@Matthew:28:5 @ But the angel said to the women, “Stop being afraid! For I know you're looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

isv@Matthew:28:6 @ He is not here. He has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

isv@Matthew:28:7 @ Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. He is going ahead of you into Galilee, and you will see him there. Remember, I have told you!”

isv@Matthew:28:8 @ So they quickly left the tomb with fear and great joy and ran to tell his disciples.

isv@Matthew:28:9 @ Suddenly Jesus met them and said,“Greetings!” They went up to him, took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.

isv@Matthew:28:10 @ Then Jesus said to them,“Stop being afraid! Go and tell my brothers to leave for Galilee, and there they will see me.”

isv@Matthew:28:11 @ While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and told the high priests all that had happened.

isv@Matthew:28:12 @ So they met with the elders and agreed on a plan to give the soldiers a large amount of money.

isv@Matthew:28:13 @ They said, “Say that his disciples came at night and stole him while you were sleeping.

isv@Matthew:28:14 @ If this is reported to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”

isv@Matthew:28:15 @ So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. This story has been spread among the Jews to this day.

isv@Matthew:28:16 @ The eleven disciples went into Galilee to the hillside to which Jesus had directed them.

isv@Matthew:28:17 @ When they saw him, they worshiped him, though some had doubts.

isv@Matthew:28:18 @ Then Jesus came up and said to them,“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

isv@Matthew:28:19 @ Therefore, as you go, disciple all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

isv@Matthew:28:20 @ teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you each and every dayuntil the end of the age.”

isv@Mark:1:3 @ He is a voice calling out in the wilderness:‘Prepare the way for the Lord!Make his paths straight!’”

isv@Mark:1:6 @ Now John was dressed in camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

isv@Mark:1:8 @ I baptized you with water, but it is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

isv@Mark:1:10 @ Just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens split open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

isv@Mark:1:12 @ At once the Spirit drove him into the wilderness.

isv@Mark:1:13 @ He was in the wilderness for forty days being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

isv@Mark:1:18 @ So immediately they left their nets and followed him.

isv@Mark:1:19 @ Going on a little farther he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat repairing their nets.

isv@Mark:1:20 @ He immediately called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.

isv@Mark:1:21 @ Then they went to Capernaum. As soon as it was the Sabbath, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

isv@Mark:1:22 @ The people were utterly amazed at his teaching, for he was teaching them like one with authority and not like their scribes.

isv@Mark:1:24 @ “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

isv@Mark:1:26 @ At this, the unclean spirit shook the man, cried out with a loud voice, and came out of him.

isv@Mark:1:27 @ All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!”

isv@Mark:1:28 @ At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.

isv@Mark:1:33 @ In fact, the whole city gathered at the door.

isv@Mark:1:38 @ He said to them,“Let's go to the neighboring towns so that I can preach there, too. For that is why I came out here.”

isv@Mark:1:43 @ Then Jesus sternly warned him and drove him away at once,

isv@Mark:1:44 @ telling him,“See to it that you don't say anything to anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest, and then offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded as proof to the authorities.”

isv@Mark:1:45 @ But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the word so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

isv@Mark:2:1 @ Several days later Jesus returned to Capernaum, and it was reported that he was at home.

isv@Mark:2:2 @ So many crowds had gathered that there wasn't any room left for them, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking the word to them

isv@Mark:2:8 @ At once, Jesus knew in his spirit what they were saying to themselves. He said to them,“Why are you arguing about such things among yourselves?

isv@Mark:2:10 @ But I want you to knowthat the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.”Then he said to the paralyzed man,

isv@Mark:2:12 @ So the man got up, immediately picked up his cot, and went out before all of them.As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

isv@Mark:2:14 @ As he was walking along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax collector's desk. Jesus said to him,“Follow me!” So Levi got up and followed him.

isv@Mark:2:15 @ Later he was having dinner at Levi's house. Many tax collectors and sinners were also eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him.

isv@Mark:2:16 @ When the scribes and the Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

isv@Mark:2:17 @ When Jesus heard that, he said to them,“Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners.”

isv@Mark:2:20 @ But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.”

isv@Mark:2:21 @ “No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch pulls away from it—the new from the old—and a worse tear is made.

isv@Mark:2:23 @ Jesus happened to be going through the grainfields on the Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain.

isv@Mark:2:24 @ The Pharisees said to him, “Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

isv@Mark:2:25 @ He said to them,“Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

isv@Mark:2:26 @ How was it that he went into the House of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?”

isv@Mark:2:27 @ Then he said to them,“The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

isv@Mark:2:28 @ Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

isv@Mark:3:2 @ The people watched Jesus closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, intending to accuse him of doing something wrong.

isv@Mark:3:4 @ Then he asked them,“Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill it?” But they were silent.

isv@Mark:3:5 @ Jesus looked around at them with anger, for he was deeply hurt because of their hardness of heart. Then he said to the man,“Hold out your hand.” The man held it out, and his hand was restored to health.

isv@Mark:3:6 @ Immediately the Pharisees, along with the Herodians, went out and began to plot against him to kill him.

isv@Mark:3:9 @ Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready for him so that the crowd wouldn't crush him.

isv@Mark:3:10 @ For he had healed so many people that all who had diseases kept crowding up against him in order to touch him.

isv@Mark:3:17 @ James, the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);

isv@Mark:3:18 @ Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddeus; Simon the Cananaean;

isv@Mark:3:19 @ and Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed him.

isv@Mark:3:20 @ Then he went home. The crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciples couldn't even eat.

isv@Mark:3:22 @ The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept repeating, “He has Beelzebul,” and “He drives out demons by the ruler of demons.”

isv@Mark:3:23 @ So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables.“How can Satan drive out Satan?

isv@Mark:3:24 @ Ifa kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

isv@Mark:3:25 @ And if a household is divided against itself, that household will not stand.

isv@Mark:3:26 @ So if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot stand. Indeed, his end has come.

isv@Mark:3:28 @ TrulyI tell you, people will be forgiven their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter.

isv@Mark:3:34 @ Then looking at the people sitting around him, he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers!

isv@Mark:4:1 @ Then Jesus began to teach again beside the sea. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the entire crowd remained beside the sea on the shore.

isv@Mark:4:4 @ As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, and birds came and ate them up.

isv@Mark:4:5 @ Others fell on stony ground, where they did not have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once because the soil wasn't deep.

isv@Mark:4:8 @ But others fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced thirty, sixty, or one hundred times what was sown.”

isv@Mark:4:12 @ sothat‘they may see clearly but not perceive,and they may hear clearly but not understand,otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.’”

isv@Mark:4:15 @ Some people are like the seedsalong the path, where the word is sown. When they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

isv@Mark:4:16 @ Others are like the seedssown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, they accept it at once with joy,

isv@Mark:4:17 @ but since they don't have any roots in themselves, they last for only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes along because of the word, they immediately fall away.

isv@Mark:4:19 @ but the worries of life, the deceitful pleasures of wealth, and the desires for other things come in and choke the word so that it can't produce a crop.

isv@Mark:4:20 @ Others are like the seedssown on good soil. They hear the word, accept it, and produce crops—thirty, sixty, or one hundred times what was sown.”

isv@Mark:4:24 @ He went on to say to them,“Pay attention to what you're listening to! With the measure you use,you will be measured, and still more will be given to you.

isv@Mark:4:25 @ For whoever has something, will have more given to him. But whoever has nothing, even what he has will be taken away.”

isv@Mark:4:26 @ He was also saying,“The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds on the ground.

isv@Mark:4:29 @ But when the grain is ripe, he swings his sickle immediately because the harvest time has come.”

isv@Mark:4:30 @ He was also saying,“How can we show what the kingdom of God is like, or what parable can we use to describe it?

isv@Mark:4:32 @ when it is planted it comes up and becomes larger than all the garden plants. It grows such large branches that the birds in the sky can nest in its shade.”

isv@Mark:4:34 @ He did not tell them anything without using a parable, though he explained everything to his disciples in private.

isv@Mark:4:35 @ That day, when evening had come, he said to them,“Let's cross to the other side.”

isv@Mark:4:36 @ So they left the crowd and took him along in the boat just as he was. Other boats were with him.

isv@Mark:4:37 @ A violent windstorm came up, and the waves began breaking into the boat, so that the boat was rapidly becoming swamped.

isv@Mark:4:38 @ But Jesus was in the back of the boat, asleep on a cushion. So they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, don't you care that we're going to die?”

isv@Mark:4:39 @ Then he got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,“Hush! Be still!” Then the wind stopped blowing, and there was a great calm.

isv@Mark:5:1 @ They arrived at the other side of the sea in the territory of the Gerasenes.

isv@Mark:5:2 @ Just as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.

isv@Mark:5:7 @ screaming in a loud voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I command you in the name of God not to torture me!”

isv@Mark:5:9 @ Then Jesus asked him,“What's your name?”He said to him, “My name is Legion, because there are many of us.”

isv@Mark:5:12 @ So the demons begged him, “Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!”

isv@Mark:5:14 @ Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they reported what had happened in the city and countryside. So the people went to see what had happened.

isv@Mark:5:16 @ The people who had seen it told them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and the pigs.

isv@Mark:5:18 @ As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging him to let him go with him.

isv@Mark:5:21 @ When Jesus again had crossed to the other side in a boat, a large crowd gathered around him by the seashore.

isv@Mark:5:22 @ Then a synagogue leader named Jairus arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet

isv@Mark:5:23 @ and begged him urgently, saying, “My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live.”

isv@Mark:5:26 @ Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all but rather grew worse.

isv@Mark:5:29 @ Her bleeding stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.

isv@Mark:5:30 @ Immediately Jesus became aware that power had gone out of him. So he turned around in the crowd and asked,“Who touched my clothes?”

isv@Mark:5:33 @ So the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth.

isv@Mark:5:36 @ But when Jesus heard what they said, he told the synagogue leader,“Stop being afraid! Just keep on believing.”

isv@Mark:5:40 @ They laughed and laughed at him. But he forced all of them outside. Then he took the child's father and mother, along with the men who were with him, and went into the room where the child was.

isv@Mark:5:42 @ The little girl got up at once and started to walk, for she was twelve years old. Instantly they were overcome with astonishment.

isv@Mark:5:43 @ But Jesus strictly ordered them not to let anyone know about this. He also told them to give her something to eat.

isv@Mark:6:1 @ Jesus left that place and went back to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

isv@Mark:6:2 @ When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were utterly amazed. They said, “Where did this man get all these things? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What great miracles are being done by his hands!

isv@Mark:6:4 @ Jesus was telling them,“A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home.”

isv@Mark:6:6 @ He was utterly amazed at their unbelief. Then he went around to the villages and continued teaching.

isv@Mark:6:10 @ He told them repeatedly,“Whenever you go into a home, stay there until you leave that place.

isv@Mark:6:12 @ So they went and preached that people should repent.

isv@Mark:6:14 @ King Herod heard about this, because Jesus’ name had become well-known. He was saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead! That's why these miracles are at work in him.”

isv@Mark:6:20 @ because Herod was afraid of John. He knew that John was a righteous and holy man, and so he protected him. Whenever he listened to John, he did much of what he said. In fact, he liked listening to him.

isv@Mark:6:21 @ An opportunity came during Herod's birthday celebration, when he gave a banquet for his top officials, military officers, and the most important people of Galilee.

isv@Mark:6:23 @ He swore with an oath to her, “I'll give you anything you ask for, up to half of my kingdom.”

isv@Mark:6:24 @ So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?”Her mother replied, “The head of John the Baptist.”

isv@Mark:6:25 @ Immediately the girl hurried back to the king with her request, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

isv@Mark:6:26 @ The king was deeply saddened, yet because of his oaths and his guests he was reluctant to refuse her.

isv@Mark:6:28 @ Then he brought John's head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

isv@Mark:6:30 @ The apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught.

isv@Mark:6:31 @ He said to them,“Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest for a while.” For so many people were coming and going that they didn't even have time to eat.

isv@Mark:6:32 @ So they went away in a boat to a deserted place by themselves.

isv@Mark:6:34 @ When he got out of the boat, he saw a large crowd. He had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

isv@Mark:6:35 @ When it was quite late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place, and it's already late.

isv@Mark:6:36 @ Send the crowds away so that they can go to the neighboring farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

isv@Mark:6:37 @ But he answered them,“You give them something to eat.”They said to him, “Should we go and buy 200 denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”

isv@Mark:6:40 @ So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

isv@Mark:6:42 @ All of them ate and were filled.

isv@Mark:6:44 @ There were 5,000 men who had eaten the loaves.

isv@Mark:6:45 @ Jesus immediately had his disciples get into a boat and cross to Bethsaida ahead of him, while he sent the crowd away.

isv@Mark:6:47 @ When evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, while he was alone on the land.

isv@Mark:6:48 @ He saw that they were straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he came to them, walking on the sea. He intended to go up right beside them,

isv@Mark:6:50 @ All of them saw him and were terrified. Immediately he said to them,“Have courage! It is I. Stop being afraid!”

isv@Mark:6:51 @ Then he got into the boat with them, and the wind stopped blowing. The disciples were utterly astounded,

isv@Mark:6:53 @ When they had crossed over, they came ashore at Gennesaret and anchored the boat.

isv@Mark:6:54 @ As soon as they got out of the boat, the people recognized Jesus.

isv@Mark:7:1 @ The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.

isv@Mark:7:2 @ They noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them.

isv@Mark:7:3 @ (For the Pharisees and indeed all the Jewish people don't eat unless they wash their hands properly, following the tradition of their elders.

isv@Mark:7:4 @ They don't eat anything from the marketplace unless they dip it in water. They also observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, jars, brass pots, and dinner tables.)

isv@Mark:7:5 @ So the Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, “Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with unclean hands.”

isv@Mark:7:10 @ For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death.’

isv@Mark:7:11 @ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or mother, “Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,”’(that is, an offering to God)

isv@Mark:7:12 @ you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

isv@Mark:7:13 @ You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that.”

isv@Mark:7:15 @ Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It is what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.

isv@Mark:7:18 @ He said to them,“Are you so ignorant? Don't you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean?

isv@Mark:7:20 @ He continued,“It is what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.

isv@Mark:7:21 @ For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

isv@Mark:7:22 @ adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, slander,arrogance, and foolishness.

isv@Mark:7:24 @ Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.

isv@Mark:7:25 @ In fact, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell down at his feet.

isv@Mark:7:28 @ But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the puppies under the table eat some of the children's crumbs.”

isv@Mark:7:34 @ Then he looked up to heaven, sighed, and said to him,“Ephphatha,” that is,“Be opened!”

isv@Mark:7:35 @ At once the man's ears were opened and his tongue was released, and he began to talk normally.

isv@Mark:8:1 @ In those days, when a large crowd again had gathered with nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

isv@Mark:8:2 @ “I have compassion for the crowd because they have already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat.

isv@Mark:8:7 @ They also had a few small fish. He blessed them and said that the fish should also be distributed.

isv@Mark:8:8 @ The people ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up the leftover pieces—seven large baskets full.

isv@Mark:8:10 @ Immediately he got into a boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.

isv@Mark:8:12 @ He sighed deeply in his spirit and said,“Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

isv@Mark:8:13 @ Leaving them, he got into a boat again and crossed to the other side.

isv@Mark:8:14 @ Now the disciples had forgotten to take any bread along and had only one loaf with them in the boat.

isv@Mark:8:15 @ Jesus had been warning them,“Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!”

isv@Mark:8:16 @ So they were discussing with one another the fact that they didn't have any bread.

isv@Mark:8:17 @ Knowing this, Jesus said to them,“Why are you discussing the fact that you don't have any bread? Don't you understand or perceive yet? Are your hearts hardened?

isv@Mark:8:31 @ Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man would have to suffer a great deal and be rejected by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he would be killed, but after three days he would rise again.

isv@Mark:8:32 @ He was speaking about this matter quite openly.Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

isv@Mark:8:33 @ But turning and looking at his disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter, saying,“Get behind me, Satan! For you are not thinking God's thoughts but human thoughts!”

isv@Mark:8:36 @ For what profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?

isv@Mark:8:37 @ Indeed, what can a person give in exchange for his life?

isv@Mark:8:38 @ If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes with the holy angels in his Father's glory.”

isv@Mark:9:1 @ Then he said to them,“Truly I tell you, some people standing here will not experiencedeath until they see the kingdom of God arrive with power.”

isv@Mark:9:2 @ Six days later, Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain to be alone with him. His appearance was changed in front of them,

isv@Mark:9:5 @ Then Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

isv@Mark:9:9 @ On their way down the mountain, he ordered them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

isv@Mark:9:10 @ They kept the matter to themselves but argued about what “rising from the dead” meant.

isv@Mark:9:11 @ So they asked him, “Don't the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

isv@Mark:9:12 @ He told them,“Elijah is indeed coming first and will restore all things. Why, then, is it written that the Son of Man must suffer a great deal and be treated shamefully?

isv@Mark:9:13 @ But I tell you that Elijah has come, yet peopletreated him just as they pleased, as it is written about him.”

isv@Mark:9:16 @ He asked the scribes,“What are you arguing about with them?”

isv@Mark:9:17 @ A man in the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you. He has a spirit that won't let him talk.

isv@Mark:9:18 @ Whenever it brings on a seizure, it throws him to the ground. Then he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes stiff. So I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they didn't have the power.”

isv@Mark:9:19 @ Jesus said to them,“You unbelieving generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me!”

isv@Mark:9:20 @ So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into convulsions. He fell on the ground and kept rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

isv@Mark:9:21 @ Then Jesus asked his father,“How long has this been happening to him?” He said, “Since he was a child.

isv@Mark:9:22 @ The spirit has often thrown him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us!”

isv@Mark:9:24 @ With tears flowing, the child's father at once cried out, “I do believe! Help my unbelief!”

isv@Mark:9:25 @ When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it,“You spirit that won't let him talk or hear—I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!”

isv@Mark:9:26 @ The spirit screamed, shook the child violently, and came out. The boy was like a corpse, and many said that he was dead.

isv@Mark:9:28 @ When Jesus came home, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn't we drive it out?”

isv@Mark:9:30 @ Then they left that place and were passing through Galilee. Jesus didn't want anyone to know it,

isv@Mark:9:32 @ They didn't understand what this statement meant, and were afraid to ask him.

isv@Mark:9:33 @ Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was at home, he asked the disciples,“What were you arguing about on the road?”

isv@Mark:9:34 @ But they kept silent, for on the road they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

isv@Mark:9:35 @ So he sat down and called the twelve. He told them,“If anyone wants to be first he must be last of all and servant of all.”

isv@Mark:9:41 @ Truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christwill never lose his reward.”

isv@Mark:9:43 @ So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell,to the fire that cannot be put out.

isv@Mark:9:44 @ In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.

isv@Mark:9:46 @ In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.

isv@Mark:9:48 @ In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.

isv@Mark:10:1 @ Then Jesus left that place and went into the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered around him as usual, and he began to teach them again as was his custom.

isv@Mark:10:3 @ He answered them,“What did Moses command you?”

isv@Mark:10:4 @ They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her.”

isv@Mark:10:5 @ But Jesus said to them,“It was because of your hardness of heart that he wrote this command for you.

isv@Mark:10:6 @ But from the beginning of creation, ‘Godmade them male and female.’

isv@Mark:10:7 @ ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,

isv@Mark:10:9 @ Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate.”

isv@Mark:10:15 @ Truly I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never get into it at all.”

isv@Mark:10:17 @ As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to him, knelt down in front of him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

isv@Mark:10:19 @ You know the commandments: ‘Never murder.’‘Never commit adultery.’‘Never steal.’‘Never give false testimony.’‘Never cheat.’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”

isv@Mark:10:21 @ Jesus looked at him and loved him. Then he told him,“You're missing one thing. Go and sell everything you own, give the moneyto the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me.”

isv@Mark:10:22 @ But the man was shocked at this statement and went away sad, because he had many possessions.

isv@Mark:10:27 @ Jesus looked at them intently and said,“For humans it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God.”

isv@Mark:10:29 @ Jesus said,“Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left his home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or fields because of me and the gospel

isv@Mark:10:32 @ Jesus and his disciples were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. They were utterly amazed, and the others who followed were afraid. Once again, he took the twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.

isv@Mark:10:33 @ “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death. Then they will hand him over to the Gentiles,

isv@Mark:10:35 @ James and John, the sons of Zebedee, went to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask you.”

isv@Mark:10:36 @ He asked them,“What do you want me to do for you?”

isv@Mark:10:37 @ They said to him, “Let us sit in your glory, one at your right and one at your left.”

isv@Mark:10:38 @ But Jesus told them,“You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?”

isv@Mark:10:39 @ They told him, “We can.”Jesus said to them,“You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized.

isv@Mark:10:40 @ But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others.”

isv@Mark:10:42 @ Jesus called the disciples and said to them,“You know that those who are recognized as rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors act like tyrants over them.

isv@Mark:10:43 @ That's not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

isv@Mark:10:47 @ When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

isv@Mark:10:50 @ He threw off his coat, jumped up, and went to Jesus.

isv@Mark:10:51 @ Then Jesus asked him,“What do you want me to do for you?”The blind man said to him, “Rabbouni, I want to see again.”

isv@Mark:10:52 @ Jesus told him,“Go. Your faith has made you well.” At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.

isv@Mark:11:1 @ When they came near Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead

isv@Mark:11:2 @ and said to them,“Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you go into it, you will find a colt tied up that no one has ever sat on.Untie it, and bring it along.

isv@Mark:11:3 @ If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?,’ say, ‘The Lord needs it,’ and he will send it back here at once.”

isv@Mark:11:5 @ some men standing there asked them, “What are you doing untying that colt?”

isv@Mark:11:6 @ The disciples told them what Jesus had said, and the men let them go.

isv@Mark:11:7 @ They brought the colt to Jesus and threw their coats upon it, and he sat on it.

isv@Mark:11:8 @ Many people spread their coats on the road, while others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.

isv@Mark:11:10 @ How blessed is the coming kingdomof our forefather David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

isv@Mark:11:11 @ Then Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple and looked around at everything. Since it was already late, he went out with the twelve to Bethany.

isv@Mark:11:14 @ So he said to it,“May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” Now his disciples were listening to this.

isv@Mark:11:17 @ Then he began to teach them, saying,“It is written, is it not, ‘My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations’?But you have turned it into a hideoutfor bandits!”

isv@Mark:11:18 @ When the high priests and elders heard this, they began to look for a way to kill him. For they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

isv@Mark:11:23 @ Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ if he doesn't doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

isv@Mark:11:24 @ Thatis why I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have receivedit and it will be yours.

isv@Mark:11:25 @ “Whenever you stand up to pray, forgive whatever you have against anyone, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins.

isv@Mark:11:26 @ But if you do not forgive, your Father in heaven will not forgive your sins.”

isv@Mark:11:28 @ and asked him, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority to do them?”

isv@Mark:11:29 @ Jesus said to them,“I will ask you one question.Answer me, and then I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

isv@Mark:11:33 @ So they answered Jesus, “We don't know.”Then Jesus told them,“Then I won't tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

isv@Mark:12:1 @ Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables.“A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.

isv@Mark:12:2 @ At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them a share of the produce from the vineyard.

isv@Mark:12:3 @ But the farmersgrabbed the servant,beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

isv@Mark:12:4 @ Again, the mansent another servant to them. They beat the servantover the head and treated him shamefully.

isv@Mark:12:5 @ Then the mansent another, and that one they killed. So it was with many other servants.Some of these they beat, and others they killed.

isv@Mark:12:9 @ “Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others.

isv@Mark:12:10 @ Haven't you ever read this Scripture:‘The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone.

isv@Mark:12:12 @ They were trying to arrest him but were afraid of the crowd. Realizing that he had spoken this parable against them, they left him alone and went away.

isv@Mark:12:13 @ Then they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to him, intending to trap him in what he said.

isv@Mark:12:14 @ They came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere. You don't favor any individual, for you pay no attention to external appearance. Rather, you teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or should we not?”

isv@Mark:12:17 @ So Jesus said to them,“Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they were utterly amazed at him.

isv@Mark:12:19 @ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, he should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

isv@Mark:12:31 @ The second is this: ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’No other commandment is greater than these.”

isv@Mark:12:32 @ Then the scribe said to him, “Well said, Teacher! You have told the truth that ‘God is one, and there is no other besides him.’

isv@Mark:12:34 @ When Jesus saw how wisely the man answered, he told him,“You are not far from the kingdom of God.” After that, no one dared to ask him another question.

isv@Mark:12:35 @ While Jesus was teaching in the temple, he said,“How can the scribes say that the Christis David's son?

isv@Mark:12:36 @ David himself said by the Holy Spirit,‘The Lord said to my Lord,“Sit at my right hand,until I put your enemies under your feet.”’

isv@Mark:12:39 @ and to have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

isv@Mark:12:40 @ Theydevour widows’ housesand say long prayers to cover it up. They will receive greater condemnation!”

isv@Mark:12:41 @ As Jesus sat facing the offering box, he watched how the crowd was dropping their money into it. Many rich people were dropping in large amounts.

isv@Mark:13:1 @ As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what large stones and what beautiful buildings!”

isv@Mark:13:2 @ Jesus said to him,“Do you see these large buildings? Not one stone here will be left on another that will not be torn down.”

isv@Mark:13:3 @ As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives facing the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew were asking him privately,

isv@Mark:13:4 @ “Tell us, when will these things take place, and what will be the sign when these things will be put into effect?”

isv@Mark:13:5 @ Jesus began to say to them,“See to it that no one deceives you.

isv@Mark:13:8 @ For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes and famines in various places. These things are only the beginning of the birth pains.”

isv@Mark:13:9 @ “As for yourselves, be on your guard! Peoplewill hand you over to local councils, and you will be beaten in their synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings to testify to them because of me.

isv@Mark:13:10 @ But first, the gospel must be proclaimed to all nations.

isv@Mark:13:11 @ “When they take you away and hand you over for trial, don't worry ahead of time about what you will say. Instead, say whatever is given to you in that hour, for it won't be you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

isv@Mark:13:12 @ Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

isv@Mark:13:13 @ You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.”

isv@Mark:13:14 @ “So when you see the destructive desecration standing where it should not be (let the reader take note),then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

isv@Mark:13:16 @ and the person who is in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

isv@Mark:13:18 @ Pray that it may not be in winter.

isv@Mark:13:19 @ For those days will be a time of suffering,a kind that has not happened from the beginning of the creation that God made until now and certainly will never happen again.

isv@Mark:13:21 @ “At that time, if anyone says to you, ‘Look! Here is the Christ!’,or, ‘Look! There he is!’, don't believe it.

isv@Mark:13:26 @ Then people will see ‘the Son of Man coming in clouds’ with great power and glory.

isv@Mark:13:27 @ He will send out his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.”

isv@Mark:13:28 @ “Now learn a lessonfrom the fig tree. When its branches become tender and it produces leaves, you know that summer is near.

isv@Mark:13:29 @ In the same way, when you see these things taking place, you will know that he is near, right at the door.

isv@Mark:13:30 @ Truly I tell you, this generation will not disappear until all these things take place.

isv@Mark:13:32 @ “No one knows when that day or hour will come—not the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.

isv@Mark:13:33 @ Be careful! Watch out! For you don't know when the time will come.

isv@Mark:13:35 @ So keep on watching, because you don't know when the master of the house is coming—whether in the evening, at three o'clock in the morning,or at dawn.

isv@Mark:13:37 @ I'm telling you what I'm telling everyone: Be alert!”

isv@Mark:14:1 @ Now it was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and to have him put to death.

isv@Mark:14:3 @ While Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper and sitting at the table, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

isv@Mark:14:4 @ Some who were there said to one another in irritation, “Why was the perfume wasted like this?

isv@Mark:14:8 @ She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial.

isv@Mark:14:9 @ TrulyI tell you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

isv@Mark:14:12 @ On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?”

isv@Mark:14:13 @ He sent two of his disciples and told them,“Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a jug of water. Follow him.

isv@Mark:14:14 @ When he goes into a house,say to its owner that the Teacher asks, ‘Where is my room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?’

isv@Mark:14:15 @ Then he will show you a large upstairs room that is furnished and ready. Get everything ready for us there.”

isv@Mark:14:18 @ While they were at the table eating, Jesus said,“Truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me, one who is eating with me.”

isv@Mark:14:21 @ For the Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born.”

isv@Mark:14:22 @ While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and handed it to them, saying,“Take some. This is my body.”

isv@Mark:14:24 @ He said to them,“This is my blood of the covenant that is being poured out for many people.

isv@Mark:14:25 @ Truly I tell you, I will never again drink the product of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

isv@Mark:14:27 @ Then Jesus said to them,“All of you will turn against me. For it is written,‘I will strike the shepherd,and the sheep will be scattered.’

isv@Mark:14:31 @ But Peter kept saying emphatically, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never deny you!” And all the others kept saying the same thing.

isv@Mark:14:34 @ So he said to them,“I am deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Wait here and stay awake.”

isv@Mark:14:35 @ Going on a little farther, he fell to the ground and kept praying that if it were possible the hour might pass from him.

isv@Mark:14:36 @ He kept repeating,“Abba!Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I want but what you want.”

isv@Mark:14:38 @ All of youmust stay awake and pray that you won't come into temptation. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak.”

isv@Mark:14:40 @ Again he came back and found them asleep, for their eyes were very heavy. They didn't even know what they should say to him.

isv@Mark:14:41 @ He came back a third time and said to them,“You might as well keep on sleeping and resting.Enough of that! The time has come. Look! The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

isv@Mark:14:45 @ So Judas immediately went up to Jesus and said, “Rabbi,”, and kissed him tenderly.

isv@Mark:14:53 @ Then they took Jesus to the high priest. All the high priests, elders, and scribes had gathered together.

isv@Mark:14:54 @ Peter followed him at a distance as far as the high priest's courtyard. He was sitting with the servants and warming himself at the fire.

isv@Mark:14:55 @ Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for some testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death, but they couldn't find any.

isv@Mark:14:60 @ Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, “Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?”

isv@Mark:14:61 @ But he kept silent and didn't answer at all. The high priest asked him again, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”

isv@Mark:14:62 @ Jesus said,“I am. And‘you will see the Son of Manseated at the right hand of the Power’and‘coming with the clouds of heaven.’”

isv@Mark:14:64 @ You have heard his blasphemy! What is your verdict?” All of them condemned him as deserving death.

isv@Mark:14:67 @ When she saw Peter warming himself, she glared at him and said, “You, too, were with Jesus from Nazareth.”

isv@Mark:14:68 @ But he denied it, saying, “I don't know or understand what you're talking about.” Then he went out into the entryway. Just then a rooster crowed.

isv@Mark:14:71 @ Then he began to invoke a divine curse and to swear with an oath, “I don't know this man you're talking about!”

isv@Mark:14:72 @ Just then a rooster crowed a second time.Peter remembered that Jesus said to him,“Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” Then he broke down and cried.

isv@Mark:15:1 @ As soon as it was morning, the high priests convened a meeting with the elders and scribes and the whole Council. They bound Jesus with chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

isv@Mark:15:2 @ Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”Jesus answered him,“You say so.”

isv@Mark:15:4 @ So Pilate asked him again, “Don't you have any answer? Look how many accusations they're bringing against you!”

isv@Mark:15:5 @ But Jesus no longer answered anything, so that Pilate was astonished.

isv@Mark:15:6 @ At every festival Pilate would release any one prisoner whom the people requested.

isv@Mark:15:8 @ So the crowd came and began to request that he do for them what he always did.

isv@Mark:15:9 @ Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?”

isv@Mark:15:10 @ For he knew that the high priests had handed him over because of jealousy.

isv@Mark:15:12 @ So Pilate said to them again, “Then what should I do with the man you call the king of the Jews?”

isv@Mark:15:14 @ Pilate asked them, “Why? What has he done wrong?”But they shouted even louder, “Crucify him!”

isv@Mark:15:15 @ So Pilate, wanting to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them, but he had Jesus whipped and handed over to be crucified.

isv@Mark:15:16 @ The soldiers led Jesus into the courtyard of the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters) and called out the whole guard.

isv@Mark:15:21 @ They forced a certain passer-by who was coming in from the country to carry Jesus’ cross. He was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

isv@Mark:15:24 @ Then they crucified him. They divided his clothes among themselves by throwing dice to see what each one would get.

isv@Mark:15:32 @ Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now so that we may see it and believe.” Even the men who were crucified with him kept insulting him.

isv@Mark:15:33 @ At twelve noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

isv@Mark:15:34 @ At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice,“Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani?”, which means,“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

isv@Mark:15:37 @ Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last.

isv@Mark:15:39 @ When the centurion who stood facing Jesus saw how he had cried out and breathed his last, he said, “This man certainly was the Son of God!”

isv@Mark:15:40 @ Now there were women watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of young James and Joseph, and Salome.

isv@Mark:15:42 @ It was the Day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath. Since it was already evening,

isv@Mark:15:43 @ Joseph of Arimathea, a highly respected member of the Council, who was waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

isv@Mark:15:44 @ Pilate wondered if Jesus had already died, so he summoned the centurion to ask him if he was in fact dead.

isv@Mark:15:45 @ When he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he let Joseph have the corpse.

isv@Mark:15:46 @ Joseph bought some linen cloth, took the body down, and wrapped it in the cloth. Then he laid it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

isv@Mark:16:1 @ When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Jesus.

isv@Mark:16:4 @ Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. (For it was a very large stone.)

isv@Mark:16:6 @ But he said to them, “Stop being astonished! You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised. He is not here. Look at the place where they laid him.

isv@Mark:16:7 @ But go and tell his disciples, especially Peter, that he is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.”

isv@Mark:16:11 @ When they heard that he was alive and that he had been seen by her, they refused to believe it.

isv@Mark:16:14 @ Finally he appeared to the eleven disciples while they were eating. He rebuked them for their unbelief and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had risen.

isv@Mark:16:15 @ Then he said to them,“As you go into all the world, proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

isv@Mark:16:17 @ “These are the signs that will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

isv@Mark:16:19 @ So the Lord Jesus, after talking with them, was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

isv@Mark:16:20 @ The disciples went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the signs that accompanied it.

isv@Luke:1:1 @ Since many people have attempted to write an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us,

isv@Luke:1:3 @ I, too, have carefully investigated everything from the beginning and have decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

isv@Luke:1:4 @ so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

isv@Luke:1:6 @ Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, and they lived blamelessly according to all of the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

isv@Luke:1:10 @ And the entire congregation of people was praying outside at the time when the incense was burned.

isv@Luke:1:11 @ An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the incense altar.

isv@Luke:1:14 @ You will have joy and gladness, and many people will rejoice at his birth.

isv@Luke:1:15 @ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He will never drink wine or any strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.

isv@Luke:1:20 @ But because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at the proper time, you will become silent and unable to speak until the day this happens.”

isv@Luke:1:22 @ But when he did come out, he was unable to speak to them. Then they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He kept motioning to them but remained unable to speak.

isv@Luke:1:25 @ “This is what the Lord did for me when he looked favorably on me and took away my public disgrace.”

isv@Luke:1:29 @ She was startled by his statement and tried to figure out what his greeting meant.

isv@Luke:1:32 @ He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David.

isv@Luke:1:34 @ Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not had relations with a man?”

isv@Luke:1:36 @ And listen! Elizabeth, your relative, has herself conceived a son in her old age. This is the sixth month for the woman who was said to be barren.

isv@Luke:1:39 @ At this time Mary set out hurriedly for a Judean city in the hill country.

isv@Luke:1:45 @ How blessed is this woman for believing that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled!”

isv@Luke:1:46 @ Then Mary said, “My soul praises the greatness of the Lord!

isv@Luke:1:48 @ for he has looked favorably on his humble servant. From now on, all generations will call me blessed,

isv@Luke:1:49 @ because the Almighty has done great things for me.His name is holy.

isv@Luke:1:50 @ His mercy lasts from generation to generationfor those who fear him.

isv@Luke:1:51 @ He displayed his mighty power with his arm. He scattered people who were proud in mind and heart.

isv@Luke:1:58 @ Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.

isv@Luke:1:59 @ On the eighth day they went to circumcise the child. They were going to name him Zechariah after his father,

isv@Luke:1:61 @ Their friends said to her, “None of your relatives has that name.”

isv@Luke:1:62 @ So they motioned to the baby's father to see what he wanted to name him.

isv@Luke:1:66 @ All who heard about it debated in their minds what had happened and said, “What will this child become?” For it was obvious that the hand of the Lord was with him.

isv@Luke:1:67 @ Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:

isv@Luke:1:71 @ that he would save us from our enemiesand from the grip of all who hate us.

isv@Luke:1:73 @ the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham. He granted us

isv@Luke:1:74 @ deliverance from our enemies' gripso that we could serve him without fear

isv@Luke:1:77 @ and to give his people the knowledge of salvationthrough the forgiveness of their sins.

isv@Luke:1:79 @ to shine on those who sit in darkness and in death's shadow,and to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

isv@Luke:2:1 @ Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered.

isv@Luke:2:2 @ This was the first registration taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

isv@Luke:2:8 @ In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night.

isv@Luke:2:10 @ Then the angel said to them, “Stop being afraid! Listen! I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people.

isv@Luke:2:15 @ When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place that the Lord has told us about.”

isv@Luke:2:17 @ When they saw this, they repeated what they had been told about this child.

isv@Luke:2:18 @ All who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them,

isv@Luke:2:22 @ When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,

isv@Luke:2:23 @ as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn son is to be designated as holy to the Lord.”

isv@Luke:2:24 @ They also offered a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord: “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

isv@Luke:2:26 @ It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he had seen the Lord's Christ.

isv@Luke:2:27 @ Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple. When the parents brought the child Jesus to do for him what was customary under the law,

isv@Luke:2:30 @ For my eyes have seen your salvation,

isv@Luke:2:32 @ a light that will reveal salvation to the Gentiles and bring glory to your people Israel.”

isv@Luke:2:33 @ Jesus’ father and mother kept wondering at the things being said about him.

isv@Luke:2:34 @ Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother, “This child is destined to cause many in Israel to fall or rise. He will be a sign that will be disputed,

isv@Luke:2:35 @ so that the inner thoughts of many people might be revealed. Indeed, a sword will pierce your own soul, too.”

isv@Luke:2:44 @ They thought that he was in the group of travelers. After traveling for a day, they started looking for him among their relatives and friends.

isv@Luke:2:45 @ When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching desperately for him.

isv@Luke:2:46 @ Three days later they found him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions.

isv@Luke:2:47 @ All who heard him were amazed at his intelligence and his answers.

isv@Luke:2:48 @ When his parents saw him, they were shocked. His mother asked him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been worried sick looking for you!”

isv@Luke:2:49 @ He said to them,“Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?”

isv@Luke:2:50 @ But they did not understand what he said to them.

isv@Luke:2:52 @ Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing in wisdom and maturity, and in favor with God and his fellow man.

isv@Luke:3:1 @ Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Caesar Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

isv@Luke:3:4 @ as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, “He is a voice calling out in the wilderness:‘Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!

isv@Luke:3:6 @ Everyone will see the salvationthat God has provided.’”

isv@Luke:3:7 @ John would say to the crowds that were coming out to be baptized by him, “You children of serpents! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

isv@Luke:3:8 @ Produce fruit that is consistent with repentance! Don't begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our forefather.’ For I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!

isv@Luke:3:10 @ The crowds kept asking him, “What, then, should we do?”

isv@Luke:3:11 @ He answered them, “The person who has two coats must share with the one who doesn't have any, and the person who has food must do the same.”

isv@Luke:3:12 @ Even some tax collectors came to be baptized. They asked him, “Teacher, what should we do?”

isv@Luke:3:14 @ Even some soldiers were asking him, “And what should we do?”He told them, “Never extort money from anyone by threats or blackmail, and be satisfied with your pay.”

isv@Luke:3:15 @ Now the people were filled with expectation, and all of them were wondering if John was perhaps the Christ.

isv@Luke:3:16 @ John replied to all of them, “I am baptizing you with water, but the one who is stronger than I am is coming, and I am not worthy to untie his sandal straps. It is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

isv@Luke:3:17 @ His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean up his threshing floor. He will gather the grain into his barn, but he will burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire.”

isv@Luke:3:18 @ With many other exhortations John continued to proclaim the good news to the people.

isv@Luke:3:24 @ the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

isv@Luke:3:25 @ the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,

isv@Luke:3:26 @ the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,

isv@Luke:3:29 @ the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

isv@Luke:3:31 @ the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Matattha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

isv@Luke:4:2 @ where he was being tempted by the devil for forty days. During those days he ate nothing at all, and when they were over he was hungry.

isv@Luke:4:10 @ For it is written, ‘God will put his angels in charge of youto watch over you carefully.

isv@Luke:4:11 @ With their hands they will hold you up,so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.’”

isv@Luke:4:16 @ Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read,

isv@Luke:4:20 @ Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

isv@Luke:4:22 @ All the people began to speak well of him and to wonder at the gracious words that flowed from his mouth. They said, “This is Joseph's son, isn't it?”

isv@Luke:4:23 @ So he said to them,“You will probably quote this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, heal yourself! Do all the things here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.’”

isv@Luke:4:25 @ In truth I tell you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the heaven was closed for three years and six months and there was a severe famine everywhere in the land.

isv@Luke:4:26 @ Yet Elijah wasn't sent to a single one of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

isv@Luke:4:31 @ Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and began teaching the people on the Sabbath.

isv@Luke:4:32 @ They were utterly amazed at his teaching, because his message was spoken with authority.

isv@Luke:4:34 @ “Oh, no! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

isv@Luke:4:35 @ But Jesus rebuked him, saying,“Be quiet, and come out of him!” At this, the demon threw the man down in the middle of the synagogue and came out of him without hurting him.

isv@Luke:4:36 @ Amazement came on all of them, and they kept saying to one another, “What kind of statement is this? For with authority and power he tells the unclean spirits what to do, and they come out!”

isv@Luke:4:39 @ He bent over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began serving them.

isv@Luke:4:42 @ At daybreak he left and went to a deserted place, while the crowds kept looking for him. When they came to him, they tried to keep him from leaving them.

isv@Luke:4:43 @ But he said to them,“I have to proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God in the other cities also, for that is what I was sent to do.”

isv@Luke:5:2 @ He saw two boats lying on the shore, but the fishermen had stepped out of them and were washing their nets.

isv@Luke:5:3 @ So Jesus got into one of the boats (the one that belonged to Simon) and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and began to teach the crowds from the boat.

isv@Luke:5:4 @ When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,“Push out into deep water, and lower your nets for a catch.”

isv@Luke:5:6 @ After the men had done this, they caught so many fish that the nets began to tear.

isv@Luke:5:7 @ So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They came and filled both boats until the boats began to sink.

isv@Luke:5:8 @ When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Jesus’ knees and said, “Leave me, Lord! I am a sinful man!”

isv@Luke:5:9 @ For Simon and all the people who were with him were amazed at the number of fish they had caught,

isv@Luke:5:10 @ and so were James and John, Zebedee's sons and Simon's partners.Then Jesus said to Simon,“Stop being afraid. From now on you will be catching people.”

isv@Luke:5:11 @ So when they brought the boats to shore, they left everything and followed Jesus.

isv@Luke:5:15 @ But the news about Jesus spread even more, and many crowds began gathering to hear him and to be healed of their diseases.

isv@Luke:5:22 @ Because Jesus knew that they were arguing, he said to them,“Why are you arguing about this among yourselves?

isv@Luke:5:24 @ ButI want you to knowthat the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.”Then he said to the paralyzed man,“I say to you: Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!”

isv@Luke:5:25 @ So the man immediately stood up in front of them and picked up what he had been lying on. Then he went home, praising God.

isv@Luke:5:27 @ After that, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax collector's desk. He said to him,“Follow me!”

isv@Luke:5:29 @ Then Levi gave a large banquet at his home for Jesus. A large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.

isv@Luke:5:30 @ The Pharisees and their scribes started complaining to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

isv@Luke:5:33 @ Then they said to him, “John's disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do those of the Pharisees. But your disciples keep right on eating and drinking.”

isv@Luke:5:36 @ Then he told them a parable:“No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, the new will tear, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

isv@Luke:5:38 @ Rather, new wine is to be poured into fresh wineskins.

isv@Luke:6:1 @ Once, on the second Sabbath after the first, Jesus was walking through some grainfields. His disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

isv@Luke:6:2 @ Some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

isv@Luke:6:3 @ Jesus answered them,“Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions became hungry?

isv@Luke:6:4 @ How was it that he went into the house of God and took and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?”

isv@Luke:6:5 @ Then he said to them,“The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

isv@Luke:6:6 @ Once, on another Sabbath, Jesus went into a synagogue and began teaching. A man whose right hand was paralyzed was there.

isv@Luke:6:7 @ The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Jesus closely to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, in order to find a way of accusing him of doing something wrong.

isv@Luke:6:8 @ But Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he said to the man with the paralyzed hand,“Get up, and stand in the middle of the synagogue.” So he got up and stood there.

isv@Luke:6:9 @ Then Jesus said to them,“I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it?”

isv@Luke:6:10 @ He looked around at all of them and then said to the man,“Hold out your hand.” The man did so, and his hand was restored to health.

isv@Luke:6:11 @ The others were filled with fury and began to discuss with each other what they could do to Jesus.

isv@Luke:6:12 @ Now it was in those days that Jesus went to a mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night in prayer to God.

isv@Luke:6:15 @ Matthew, Thomas, James (the son of Alphaeus), Simon (who was called the Zealot),

isv@Luke:6:17 @ Then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place, along with a huge crowd of his disciples and a large gathering of people from all over Judea, Jerusalem, and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.

isv@Luke:6:20 @ Then Jesus looked at his disciples and said, “How blessed are you who are destitute,for the kingdom of God is yours!

isv@Luke:6:21 @ How blessed are you who are hungry now,for you will be satisfied! How blessed are you who are crying now,for you will laugh!

isv@Luke:6:22 @ How blessed are you whenever people hate you, avoid you, insult you, and slander you because of the Son of Man!

isv@Luke:6:23 @ Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for your reward in heaven is great! For that's the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.

isv@Luke:6:26 @ How terrible it will be for you when everyone says nice things about you, for that's the way their ancestors used to treat the false prophets!”

isv@Luke:6:27 @ “But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.

isv@Luke:6:29 @ If someone strikes you on the cheek, offer him the other one as well, and if someone takes your coat, don't keep back your shirt, either.

isv@Luke:6:30 @ Keep on giving to everyone who asks you for something, and if anyone takes what is yours, do not insist on getting it back.

isv@Luke:6:31 @ Whatever you want people to do for you, do the same for them.

isv@Luke:6:32 @ “If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them.

isv@Luke:6:33 @ If you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners do that.

isv@Luke:6:34 @ If you lend to those from whom you expect to get something back, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back what they lend.

isv@Luke:6:35 @ Rather, love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, for he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.

isv@Luke:6:36 @ Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”

isv@Luke:6:44 @ For every tree is known by its own fruit. Peopledon't gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush.

isv@Luke:6:45 @ A good person produces good from the good treasure of his heart, and an evil person produces evil from an evil treasure. For it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.”

isv@Luke:6:46 @ “Why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but don't do what I tell you?

isv@Luke:6:47 @ I will show you what everyone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them.

isv@Luke:6:48 @ He is like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

isv@Luke:6:49 @ But the person who hears what I saybut doesn't act on it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. When the floodwaters pushed against it, that housequickly collapsed, and the ruin of that house was devastating.”

isv@Luke:7:4 @ So they went to Jesus and begged him repeatedly, “He deserves to have this done for him,

isv@Luke:7:7 @ That's why I didn't presume to come to you. But just say the word, and let my servant be healed.

isv@Luke:7:9 @ When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said,“I tell you, not even in Israel have I found this kind of faith!”

isv@Luke:7:15 @ The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

isv@Luke:7:16 @ Fear gripped everyone, and they began to praise God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us,” and “God has helped his people.”

isv@Luke:7:21 @ At that time Jesus had healed many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits and had given sight to many who were blind.

isv@Luke:7:22 @ So he answered them,“Go and tell John what you have observed and heard: the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear again, the dead are raised, and the destitute hear the good news.

isv@Luke:7:24 @ When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John.“What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

isv@Luke:7:25 @ Really, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? See, those who wear fine clothes and live in luxury are in royal palaces.

isv@Luke:7:26 @ Really, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet!

isv@Luke:7:28 @ I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”

isv@Luke:7:31 @ “To what can I compare the people of this generation?

isv@Luke:7:33 @ For John the Baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, yet you say, ‘He has a demon!’

isv@Luke:7:34 @ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

isv@Luke:7:36 @ Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. So he went to the Pharisee's home and took his place at the table.

isv@Luke:7:37 @ There was a woman who was a notorious sinner in that city. When she learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's home, she took an alabaster jar of perfume

isv@Luke:7:38 @ and knelt at his feet behind him. She was crying and began to wash his feet with her tears and dry them with her hair. Then she kissed his feet over and over again, anointing them constantly with the perfume.

isv@Luke:7:39 @ Now the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this and said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who is touching him and what kind of woman she is. She's a sinner!”

isv@Luke:7:44 @ Then, turning to the woman, he said to Simon,“Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You didn't give me any water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

isv@Luke:7:47 @ So I'm telling you that her sins, as many as they are, have been forgiven, and that's why she has shown such great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little.”

isv@Luke:7:49 @ Those who were at the table with them began to say among themselves, “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”

isv@Luke:8:4 @ Now while a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to him from every city, he said in a parable:

isv@Luke:8:5 @ “A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, were trampled on, and the birds of the sky ate them up.

isv@Luke:8:9 @ Then his disciples began to ask him what this parable meant.

isv@Luke:8:10 @ So he said,“You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of God. But to others they are givenin parables, so that‘they might look but not see,and they might listen but not understand.’”

isv@Luke:8:11 @ “Now this is what the parable means. The seed is God's word.

isv@Luke:8:12 @ The ones on the path are the people who listen, but then the devil comes and takes the word away from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

isv@Luke:8:14 @ The ones that fell among the thornbushes are the people who listen, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries, wealth, and pleasures of life, and their fruit doesn't mature.

isv@Luke:8:16 @ “No one lights a lamp and hides it under a bowl or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in will see the light.

isv@Luke:8:17 @ For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing secret that will not become known and come to light.

isv@Luke:8:18 @ So pay attention to how you listen. For to the one who has something, more will be given. However, from the one who doesn't have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

isv@Luke:8:22 @ One day Jesus and his disciples got into a boat. He said to them,“Let's cross to the other side of the lake.” So they started out.

isv@Luke:8:23 @ Now as they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. A violent storm swept over the lake, and they were taking on water and were in great danger.

isv@Luke:8:25 @ Then he asked the disciples,“Where is your faith?”Frightened and amazed, they asked one another, “Who is this man? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him!”

isv@Luke:8:28 @ When he saw Jesus, he screamed, fell down in front of him, and said in a loud voice, “What do you want from me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!”

isv@Luke:8:30 @ Jesus asked him,“What's your name?”He answered, “Legion,” because many demons had gone into him.

isv@Luke:8:34 @ Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs saw what had happened, they ran away and reported it in the city and in the countryside.

isv@Luke:8:35 @ So the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind, they were frightened.

isv@Luke:8:37 @ Then all the people from the region surrounding the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were terrified. So he got into a boat and started back.

isv@Luke:8:41 @ Just then a synagogue leader by the name of Jairus arrived. He fell at Jesus’ feet and kept begging him to come to his home,

isv@Luke:8:44 @ She came up behind Jesus and touched the tassel of his garment, and her bleeding stopped at once.

isv@Luke:8:46 @ Still Jesus said,“Somebody touched me, for I know that power has gone out of me.”

isv@Luke:8:47 @ When the woman saw that she couldn't hide, she came forward trembling. Bowing down in front of him, she explained in the presence of all the people why she had touched Jesus and how she had been instantly healed.

isv@Luke:8:51 @ When he arrived at the house, he allowed no one to go in with him except Peter, John, James, and the child's father and mother.

isv@Luke:8:53 @ They laughed and laughed at him, because they knew she was dead.

isv@Luke:8:55 @ So her spirit returned, and she got up at once. Then he directed that she be given something to eat.

isv@Luke:8:56 @ Her parents were amazed, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.

isv@Luke:9:5 @ If people don't welcome you, when you leave that city, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

isv@Luke:9:7 @ Now Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was happening. He was puzzled because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead,

isv@Luke:9:8 @ by others that Elijah had appeared, and by still others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life.

isv@Luke:9:10 @ The apostles came back and told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them away with him privately to a city called Bethsaida.

isv@Luke:9:13 @ But he said to them,“You give them something to eat.”They replied, “We have nothing more than five loaves of bread and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

isv@Luke:9:15 @ They did this and got all of them seated.

isv@Luke:9:17 @ All of them ate and were filled. When they collected the leftover pieces, there were twelve baskets.

isv@Luke:9:18 @ One day while Jesus was praying privately and the disciples were with him, he asked them,“Who do the crowds say I am?”

isv@Luke:9:22 @ He said,“The Son of Man must suffer a great deal and be rejected by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he must be killed, but on the third day he will be raised.”

isv@Luke:9:25 @ What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world, but destroys himself or is lost?

isv@Luke:9:26 @ If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and the glory ofthe Father and the holy angels.

isv@Luke:9:27 @ Truly I tell you, some people who are standing here will not experience death until they see the kingdom of God.”

isv@Luke:9:33 @ Just as Moses and Elijah were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” (Peter didn't know what he was saying.)

isv@Luke:9:36 @ After the voice had spoken, Jesus was alone. The disciples kept silent and at that time told no one about what they had seen.

isv@Luke:9:38 @ Suddenly a man in the crowd shouted, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.

isv@Luke:9:39 @ Without warning a spirit takes control of him, and he suddenly screams, goes into convulsions, and foams at the mouth. The spirit mauls him and refuses to leave him.

isv@Luke:9:41 @ Jesus answered,“You unbelieving and perverted generation! How much longer must I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here!”

isv@Luke:9:42 @ Even while the boy was coming, the demon knocked him to the ground and threw him into convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

isv@Luke:9:43 @ So all the people continued to be amazed at the greatness of God. Indeed, everyone was astonished at all the things Jesus was doing. So he said to his disciples,

isv@Luke:9:45 @ But they didn't know what this meant. Indeed, the meaning was hidden from them so that they didn't understand it; and they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

isv@Luke:9:46 @ Now an argument started among them as to which of them might be the greatest.

isv@Luke:9:48 @ Then he said to them,“Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is greatest.”

isv@Luke:9:59 @ He told another man,“Follow me.”But he said, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

isv@Luke:9:61 @ Still another man said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to those at home.”

isv@Luke:10:1 @ After this, the Lord appointed seventy other disciples and sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place that he intended to go.

isv@Luke:10:5 @ “Whatever house you go into, first say, ‘May there be peace in this house.’

isv@Luke:10:6 @ If a peaceful person lives there, your greeting of peace will remain with him. But if that's not the case, your greetingwill come back to you.

isv@Luke:10:7 @ Stay with the same family, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the worker deserves his pay. Don't move from house to house.

isv@Luke:10:8 @ “Whenever you go into a town and the peoplewelcome you, eat whatever they serve you,

isv@Luke:10:9 @ heal the sick that are there, and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is near you!’

isv@Luke:10:11 @ ‘We are wiping off your town's dust that clings to our feet in protest against you! But realize this: the kingdom of God is near!’

isv@Luke:10:12 @ I tell you, on that day it will be easier for Sodom than for that town!”

isv@Luke:10:13 @ “How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

isv@Luke:10:14 @ It will be easier for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you! 15And you, Capernaum! You won't be lifted up to heaven, will you? You'll go down to Hades!

isv@Luke:10:18 @ He said to them,“I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

isv@Luke:10:20 @ However, stop rejoicing because the spirits are submitting to you. Rather, rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”

isv@Luke:10:21 @ In that hour Jesus was extremely joyful in the Holy Spirit and said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this is what was pleasing to you.

isv@Luke:10:22 @ All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knowswho the Father is except the Son and the person to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

isv@Luke:10:23 @ Then turning to the disciples in private, he said to them,“How blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

isv@Luke:10:25 @ Just then an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. He asked, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

isv@Luke:10:26 @ Jesus answered him,“What is written in the law? What do you read there?”

isv@Luke:10:30 @ After careful consideration, Jesus replied,“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of bandits. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

isv@Luke:10:31 @ By chance, a priest was traveling along that road. When he saw the man,he went by on the other side.

isv@Luke:10:32 @ Similarly, a Levite came to that place. When he saw the man,he also went by on the other side.

isv@Luke:10:35 @ The next day he took out two denariiand gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take good care of him. If you spend more than that, I'll repay you when I come back.’

isv@Luke:10:37 @ He said, “The one who showed mercy to him.”Jesus told him,“Go and do what he did.”

isv@Luke:10:39 @ She had a sister named Mary, who sat down at the Lord's feet and kept listening to what he was saying.

isv@Luke:10:40 @ But Martha was worrying about all the things she had to do, so she came to him and asked, “Lord, you do care that my sister has left me to do the work all by myself, don't you? Then tell her to help me.”

isv@Luke:10:42 @ But there's onlyone thing you need. Mary has chosen what is better,and it is not to be taken away from her.”

isv@Luke:11:2 @ So he told them,“Whenever you pray you are to say,‘Father,may your name be kept holy.May your kingdom come.

isv@Luke:11:4 @ and forgive us our sins, as we forgive everyone who sins against us.And never bring us into temptation.’”

isv@Luke:11:5 @ Then he said to them,“Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, let me borrow three loaves of bread.

isv@Luke:11:8 @ I tell you, even though he doesn't want to get up and give him anything because he is his friend, he will get up and give him whatever he needs because of his persistence.

isv@Luke:11:11 @ “What father among you, if his son asks for bread, would give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish,would give him a snake instead of the fish?

isv@Luke:11:13 @ So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking him!”

isv@Luke:11:17 @ Since he knew what they were thinking, he said to them,“Every kingdom divided against itself is devastated, and a divided household collapses.

isv@Luke:11:18 @ Now if Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom last? For you say that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

isv@Luke:11:19 @ And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own followersdrive them out? That is why they will be your judges!

isv@Luke:11:22 @ But when a stronger man than he attacks him and defeats him, he'll take away his armor in which he trusted and divide his plunder.

isv@Luke:11:23 @ The person who isn't with me is against me, and the person who doesn't gather with me scatters.”

isv@Luke:11:24 @ “Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest but doesn't find any. So it says, ‘I will go back to my home that I left.’

isv@Luke:11:26 @ Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person is worse than the first.”

isv@Luke:11:27 @ As Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “How blessed is the womb that gave birth to you and the breasts that nursed you!”

isv@Luke:11:28 @ But he said,“Rather, how blessed are those who hear God's word and obey it!”

isv@Luke:11:29 @ Now as the crowds continued to throng around Jesus, he went on to say,“This generation is an evil generation. It craves a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

isv@Luke:11:30 @ For just as Jonah became a signto the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

isv@Luke:11:31 @ The queen of the south will stand up at the judgment with the people of this generation and will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. But look, something greater than Solomon is here!

isv@Luke:11:32 @ The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. But look, something greater than Jonah is here!”

isv@Luke:11:33 @ “No one lights a lamp and puts it in a hiding placeor under a basket,but on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see its light.

isv@Luke:11:35 @ Therefore, be careful that the light in you isn't darkness.

isv@Luke:11:37 @ After Jesus had said this, a Pharisee invited him to have a meal with him. So Jesus went and took his place at the table.

isv@Luke:11:38 @ The Pharisee was surprised to see that he didn't first wash before the meal.

isv@Luke:11:41 @ So give what is inside to the poor, and then everything will be clean for you.

isv@Luke:11:46 @ Jesus said,“How terrible it will be for you experts in the law, too! For you load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves don't even lift one of your fingers to ease the burdens.

isv@Luke:11:49 @ Thatis why the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles. They will kill some of them and persecute others,’

isv@Luke:11:50 @ sothat this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that was shed since the foundation of the world,

isv@Luke:11:51 @ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who died between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation!

isv@Luke:11:53 @ When Jesus left, the scribes and the Pharisees began to fiercely oppose him and to interrogate him about many things,

isv@Luke:11:54 @ watching him closely in an effort to trap him in something he might say.

isv@Luke:12:1 @ Meanwhile, the people had gathered by the thousands and were trampling on one another. Jesus began to speak first to his disciples.“Watch out for the yeast—that is, the hypocrisy—of the Pharisees!

isv@Luke:12:2 @ There is nothing covered that will not be exposed and nothing secret that will not be made known.

isv@Luke:12:3 @ Accordingly, what you have said in darkness will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whisperedin private rooms will be shouted from the housetops.”

isv@Luke:12:4 @ “But I tell you, my friends, never be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can't do anything more.

isv@Luke:12:11 @ When peoplebring you before synagogue leaders,rulers, or authorities, don't worry about howyou will defend yourselves or what you will say.

isv@Luke:12:12 @ For in that hour the Holy Spirit will teach you what you are to say.”

isv@Luke:12:14 @ But Jesus said to him,“Mister,who appointed me to be a judge or arbitrator over you people?”

isv@Luke:12:17 @ So he began to think to himself, ‘What should I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’

isv@Luke:12:18 @ Thenhe said, ‘This is what I'll do. I'll tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and I'll store all my grain and goods in them.

isv@Luke:12:19 @ Then I'll say to my soul, “Soul, you've stored up plenty of good things for many years. Take it easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

isv@Luke:12:20 @ ButGod said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?’

isv@Luke:12:21 @ That's how it is with the person who stores up treasures for himself and isn't rich toward God.”

isv@Luke:12:22 @ Then Jesus said to his disciples,“That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life—what you will eat—or about your body—what you will wear.

isv@Luke:12:26 @ So if you can't do a small thing like that, why worry about other things?

isv@Luke:12:27 @ Consider how the lilies grow. They don't work or spin yarn, but I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them.

isv@Luke:12:28 @ Now if that's the way God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and thrown into an oven tomorrow, how much more will he clothe you—you who have little faith?

isv@Luke:12:29 @ “So stop concerning yourselves about what you will eat or what you will drink, and stop being distressed.

isv@Luke:12:30 @ For it is the Gentiles who are concerned about all these things. Surely your Father knows that you need them!

isv@Luke:12:32 @ Stop being afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

isv@Luke:12:33 @ “Sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves wallets that don't wear out—a dependable treasure in heaven, where no thief can get close and no moth can destroy anything.

isv@Luke:12:37 @ How blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching for him when he comes! Truly I tell you, he will put an apron on, make them sit down at the table, and go around and serve them.

isv@Luke:12:39 @ But be sure of this: if the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched andwould not have let his house be broken into.

isv@Luke:12:40 @ So be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you don't expect him.”

isv@Luke:12:42 @ The Lord said,“Who, then, is the faithful and careful manager whom his master will put in charge of giving all his other servants their share of food at the right time?

isv@Luke:12:43 @ How blessed is that servant whom his master finds doing this when he comes!

isv@Luke:12:45 @ “But if that servant says to himself,‘My master is taking a long time to come back,’ and begins to beat the other servants and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

isv@Luke:12:46 @ the master of that servant will come on a day when he doesn't expect him and at an hour that he doesn't know. Then his masterwill punish him severelyand assign him a place with unfaithful people.

isv@Luke:12:47 @ That servant who knew what his master wanted but didn't prepare himself or do what was wanted will receive a severe beating.

isv@Luke:12:48 @ But the servantwho did things that deserved a beating without knowing it will receive a light beating. Much will be required from everyone to whom much has been given. But even more will be demanded from the one to whom much has been entrusted.”

isv@Luke:12:50 @ I have a baptism to be baptized with, and what stress I am under until it is completed!

isv@Luke:12:51 @ “Do you think that I came to bring peace on earth? Not at all, I tell you, but rather division!

isv@Luke:12:53 @ They will be divided father against son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

isv@Luke:12:54 @ Then Jesus said to the crowds,“When you see a cloud coming in the west, you immediately say, ‘There's going to be a storm,’ and that's what happens.

isv@Luke:12:57 @ “Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

isv@Luke:13:1 @ At that time, some people who were there told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

isv@Luke:13:2 @ He asked them,“Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered like this?

isv@Luke:13:4 @ What about those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem?

isv@Luke:13:6 @ Then Jesus told them this parable:“A man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't find any.

isv@Luke:13:10 @ Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

isv@Luke:13:11 @ A woman was there who had a spirit that had disabled her for eighteen years. She was hunched over and completely unable to stand up straight.

isv@Luke:13:13 @ Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.

isv@Luke:13:14 @ But the synagogue leader, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, told the crowd, “There are six days when work is to be done. So come on those days to be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”

isv@Luke:13:15 @ The Lord replied to him,“You hypocrites! Doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey and lead it out of the stall to give it some water?

isv@Luke:13:16 @ Shouldn't this woman, a descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

isv@Luke:13:17 @ Even as he was saying this, all of his opponents were blushing with shame. But the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things he was doing.

isv@Luke:13:18 @ So Jesus went on to say,“What is the kingdom of God like? What can I compare it to?

isv@Luke:13:19 @ It is like a mustard seed that someone took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds in the sky nest in its branches.”

isv@Luke:13:20 @ Again he said,“What can I compare the kingdom of God to?

isv@Luke:13:21 @ It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed withthree measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

isv@Luke:13:24 @ “Keep on struggling to enter through the narrow door. For I tell you that many people will try to enter but won't be able to.

isv@Luke:13:26 @ Thenyou will say,‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’

isv@Luke:13:28 @ In that place there will be crying and gnashing of teethwhen you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves being driven away on the outside.

isv@Luke:13:29 @ People will come from east and west, and from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God.

isv@Luke:13:31 @ At that hour some Pharisees came and told Jesus, “Leave and get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!”

isv@Luke:13:32 @ He said to them,“Go and tell that fox, ‘Listen! I am driving out demons and healing today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish my work.

isv@Luke:13:34 @ “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you didn't want to!

isv@Luke:14:1 @ One Sabbath, Jesus went to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal. The guests were watching Jesus closely.

isv@Luke:14:3 @ So Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law,“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

isv@Luke:14:5 @ Then he asked them,“If your sonor ox falls into a well on the Sabbath day, you would pull him out immediately, wouldn't you?”

isv@Luke:14:8 @ “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don't sit down at the place of honor in case someone more important than you was invited by him.

isv@Luke:14:10 @ But when you are invited, go and sit down at the place of least honor. Then, when your host comes, he will tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher,’ and you will be honored in the presence of all who eat with you.

isv@Luke:14:12 @ Then he told the man who had invited him,“When you give a luncheon or a dinner, stop inviting onlyyour friends, brothers, relatives, or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return and you would be repaid.

isv@Luke:14:14 @ Then you will be blessed because they can't repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

isv@Luke:14:15 @ Now one of those eating with him heard this and said to him, “How blessed is the person who will eat in the kingdom of God!”

isv@Luke:14:20 @ Still another said, ‘I recently got married, and that's why I can't come.’

isv@Luke:14:22 @ The servant said, ‘Sir, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’

isv@Luke:14:23 @ Then the master told the servant, ‘Go out into the streets and the lanes and make the people come in, so that my house may be full.

isv@Luke:14:24 @ For I tell all of you,none of those men who were invited will taste anything at my banquet.’”

isv@Luke:14:26 @ “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple.

isv@Luke:14:28 @ “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. He will first sit down and estimate the cost to see whether he has enough money to finish it, won't he?

isv@Luke:14:29 @ Otherwise, if he lays a foundation and can't finish the building,everyone who watches will begin to ridicule him

isv@Luke:14:32 @ If he can't, he will send a delegation to ask for terms of peace while the other kingis still far away.

isv@Luke:15:2 @ But the Pharisees and the scribes kept complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

isv@Luke:15:4 @ “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. He leaves the ninety-nine in the wilderness and looks for the one that is lost until he finds it, doesn't he?

isv@Luke:15:7 @ In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.”

isv@Luke:15:9 @ When she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I lost!’

isv@Luke:15:10 @ In the same way, I tell you that there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents.”

isv@Luke:15:12 @ The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So the fatherdivided his property between them.

isv@Luke:15:13 @ A few days later, the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted his possessions on wild living.

isv@Luke:15:14 @ After he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

isv@Luke:15:15 @ So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

isv@Luke:15:16 @ He would gladly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

isv@Luke:15:17 @ “Then he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!

isv@Luke:15:18 @ I will get up, go to my father, and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heavenand you.

isv@Luke:15:19 @ I don't deserve to be called your son anymore. Treat me like one of your hired men.”’

isv@Luke:15:20 @ “So he got up and went to his father. While he was still far away, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son,threw his arms around him, and kissed him affectionately.

isv@Luke:15:21 @ Then his son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heavenand you. I don't deserve to be called your son anymore.’

isv@Luke:15:22 @ But the father said to his servants, ‘Hurry! Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

isv@Luke:15:23 @ Bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let's eat and celebrate!

isv@Luke:15:24 @ For my son was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.

isv@Luke:15:26 @ So he called to one of the servants and asked what was happening.

isv@Luke:15:27 @ The servanttold him, ‘Your brother has come home, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got him back safely.’

isv@Luke:15:28 @ “Then the older sonbecame angry and wouldn't go into the house.So his father came out and began to plead with him.

isv@Luke:15:29 @ But he answered his father, “Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.

isv@Luke:15:30 @ But this son of yours spent your money on prostitutes, and when he came back, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

isv@Luke:15:31 @ “His fathersaid to him, ‘My child, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

isv@Luke:15:32 @ But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.’”

isv@Luke:16:2 @ So he called for him and asked him, ‘What's this I hear about you? Give me a report about your management, because you can't be my manager any longer.’

isv@Luke:16:3 @ “Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do? My master is taking my position away from me. I'm not strong enough to dig, and I'm ashamed to beg. 4I know what I'll do so that peoplewill welcome me into their homes when I'm dismissed from my job.’

isv@Luke:16:7 @ Then he asked another debtor,‘How much do you owe?’ The man replied, ‘A hundred containers of wheat.’ The managertold him, ‘Get your bill and write “eighty.”’

isv@Luke:16:8 @ The master praised the dishonest manager for being so clever. For worldly peopleare more clever than enlightened peoplein dealing with their own generation.

isv@Luke:16:9 @ “I'm telling you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous riches,so that when they're gone you'll be welcomedinto eternal homes.

isv@Luke:16:12 @ And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to foreigners, who will give you what is your own?

isv@Luke:16:13 @ “No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!”

isv@Luke:16:15 @ So he said to them,“You try to justify yourselves in front of people, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly valued by people is detestable to God.

isv@Luke:16:19 @ “Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in great luxury every day.

isv@Luke:16:20 @ A beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores, was brought to his gate.

isv@Luke:16:21 @ He was always craving to satisfy his hunger with what fellfrom the rich man's table. In fact, even the dogs used to come and lick his sores.

isv@Luke:16:24 @ So he shouted, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and to cool off my tongue, because I am suffering in this fire.’

isv@Luke:16:25 @ But Abraham said, ‘My child, remember that during your lifetime you received blessings,while Lazarus received hardships.But now he is being comforted here, while you suffer.

isv@Luke:16:26 @ Besides all this, a wide chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross from this side to you can't do so, nor can they cross from your side to us.’

isv@Luke:16:27 @ “The rich mansaid, ‘Then I beg you, father, send him to my father's house—

isv@Luke:16:28 @ for I have five brothers—to warn them, so that they won't end up in this place of torture, too.’

isv@Luke:16:30 @ But the rich manreplied, ‘No, father Abraham! Yet if someone from the dead went to them, they would repent.’

isv@Luke:17:1 @ Jesus said to his disciples,“It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!

isv@Luke:17:3 @ “Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

isv@Luke:17:7 @ “Suppose a man among you has a servant plowing or watching sheep. Would he say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and have something to eat’?

isv@Luke:17:8 @ Of course not. Instead, he would say to him, ‘Get dinner ready for me, and put on your apron and wait on me until I eat and drink. Then you can eat and drink.’

isv@Luke:17:9 @ He doesn't praise the servant for doing what was commanded, does he?

isv@Luke:17:10 @ That's the way it is with you. When you have done everything you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless servants. We have done only what we ought to have done.’”

isv@Luke:17:12 @ As he was going into a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance

isv@Luke:17:15 @ But one of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back and praised God with a loud voice.

isv@Luke:17:16 @ He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. Now the man was a Samaritan.

isv@Luke:17:25 @ But first he must suffer a great deal and be rejected by this generation.

isv@Luke:17:27 @ Peoplewere eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage right up to the day when Noah went into the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed all of them.

isv@Luke:17:28 @ So it was in the days of Lot. Peoplewere eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

isv@Luke:17:30 @ The day when the Son of Man is revealed will be like that.

isv@Luke:17:31 @ “The person who is on the housetop that day must not come down to get the belongings out of his house. The person in the field, too, must not turn back.

isv@Luke:17:34 @ I tell you, two people will be in the same bed that night. One will be taken, and the other will be left behind.

isv@Luke:17:37 @ Then they asked him, “Where, Lord, will this take place?”He told them,“Wherever there's a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”

isv@Luke:18:3 @ In that city there was also a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’

isv@Luke:18:4 @ For a while the judgerefused. But later he said to himself, ‘I don't fear God or respect people.

isv@Luke:18:6 @ Then the Lord added,“Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

isv@Luke:18:11 @ The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘O God, I thank you that I'm not like other people—thieves, dishonest people, adulterers,or even this tax collector.

isv@Luke:18:13 @ “But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even look up to heaven. Instead, he continued to beat his chest and said, ‘O God, be merciful to me, the sinner that I am!’

isv@Luke:18:14 @ I tell you, this man, rather than the other, went down to his home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be exalted.”

isv@Luke:18:15 @ Now some people were even bringing their infants to Jesus to have him touch them. But when the disciples saw this, they sternly told the people not to do that.

isv@Luke:18:17 @ Truly I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never get into it at all.”

isv@Luke:18:18 @ Then an official asked Jesus, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

isv@Luke:18:20 @ You know the commandments: ‘Never commit adultery.Never murder.Never steal.Never give false testimony.Honor your father and mother.’”

isv@Luke:18:27 @ Jesus replied,“The things that are impossible for people are possible for God.”

isv@Luke:18:34 @ But they didn't understand any of this. What he said was hidden from them, and they didn't know what he meant.

isv@Luke:18:36 @ When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.

isv@Luke:18:37 @ They told him that Jesus from Nazareth was coming by.

isv@Luke:18:39 @ The people at the front of the crowd sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

isv@Luke:18:41 @ “What do you want me to do for you?”He said, “Lord, I want to see again!”

isv@Luke:18:43 @ Immediately the man could see again and began to follow Jesus, glorifying God. All the people saw this and gave praise to God.

isv@Luke:19:2 @ a man named Zacchaeus appeared. He was a leading tax collector, and a rich one at that!

isv@Luke:19:4 @ So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, who was going to pass that way.

isv@Luke:19:5 @ When Jesus came to the tree, he looked up and said,“Zacchaeus, hurry and come down! I must stay at your house today.”

isv@Luke:19:8 @ Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Lord, I'll give half of my possessions to the poor. I'll pay four times as much as I owe if I have cheated anyone in any way.”

isv@Luke:19:9 @ Then Jesus said to him,“Today salvation has come to this home, because he, too, is a descendant of Abraham.

isv@Luke:19:11 @ As they were listening to this, Jesus went on to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and because the people thought that the kingdom of God would appear immediately.

isv@Luke:19:14 @ But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation to follow him, saying, ‘We don't want this man to rule over us!’

isv@Luke:19:15 @ “After he was appointed king, he came back. He ordered the servants to whom he had given the money to be called so that he could find out what they had made by investing.

isv@Luke:19:21 @ because I was afraid of you. You are a hard man. You withdraw what you didn't deposit and harvest what you didn't plant.’

isv@Luke:19:22 @ The kingsaid to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you evil servant! You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, and that I withdraw what I didn't deposit and harvest what I didn't plant?

isv@Luke:19:26 @ ‘I tell you, to everyone who has something, more will be given, but from the person who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away.

isv@Luke:19:29 @ When he came near Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples on ahead

isv@Luke:19:30 @ and said,“Go into the village ahead of you. As you enter, you will find a colt tied up that no one has ever sat on. Untie it, and bring it along.

isv@Luke:19:35 @ Then they brought the colt to Jesus and put their coats on it, and Jesus sat upon it.

isv@Luke:19:36 @ As he was riding along, people kept spreading their coats on the road.

isv@Luke:19:42 @ saying,“If you had only known today what could have brought you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

isv@Luke:20:2 @ and asked him, “Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”

isv@Luke:20:6 @ But if we say, ‘From humans,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

isv@Luke:20:7 @ So they answered that they didn't know where it was from.

isv@Luke:20:8 @ Then Jesus told them,“Then I won't tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

isv@Luke:20:10 @ At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order that they might give him his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

isv@Luke:20:11 @ He sent another servant, and they beat him, too, treated him shamefully, and sent him back empty-handed.

isv@Luke:20:13 @ “Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I'll send my son whom I love. Maybe they'll respect him.’

isv@Luke:20:14 @ But when the farmers saw him, they talked it over among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let's kill him so that the inheritance will be ours!’

isv@Luke:20:15 @ So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

isv@Luke:20:16 @ He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others.” Those who heard him said, “That must never happen!”

isv@Luke:20:17 @ But Jesus R ‘The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone’?

isv@Luke:20:18 @ Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”

isv@Luke:20:19 @ When the scribes and the high priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay their hands on him at that very hour, but they were afraid of the crowd.

isv@Luke:20:20 @ So they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended to be honest men in order to trap him in what he would say. They wanted to hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.

isv@Luke:20:21 @ So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you don't favor any individual, but teach the way of God truthfully.

isv@Luke:20:25 @ So he said to them,“Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

isv@Luke:20:26 @ So they couldn't catch him before the people in what he said. Amazed at his answer, they became silent.

isv@Luke:20:28 @ and asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

isv@Luke:20:35 @ but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

isv@Luke:20:37 @ Even Moses demonstrated in the story about the bush that the dead are raised, when he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

isv@Luke:20:41 @ Then he said to them,“How can peoplesay that the Christis David's son?

isv@Luke:20:42 @ For David himself in the book of Psalms says,‘The Lord said to my Lord,“Sit at my right hand,

isv@Luke:20:46 @ “Beware of the scribes! They like to walk around in long robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

isv@Luke:20:47 @ They devour widows’ housesand say long prayers to cover it up. They will receive greater condemnation!”

isv@Luke:21:5 @ Now while some people were talking about the temple—how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God—he said,

isv@Luke:21:6 @ “As for these things that you see, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another that will not be torn down.”

isv@Luke:21:7 @ Then they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things be, and what will be the sign that these things are about to take place?”

isv@Luke:21:8 @ He said,“Be careful that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name and say, ‘I am he’ and ‘The time is near.’ Don't go after them.

isv@Luke:21:10 @ Then he went on to say to them,“Nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

isv@Luke:21:11 @ There will be great earthquakes and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be fearful events and awful signs from heaven.

isv@Luke:21:15 @ for I will give you such speech and wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute it.

isv@Luke:21:16 @ “You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death.

isv@Luke:21:17 @ You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name.

isv@Luke:21:20 @ “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then understand that its devastation is near.

isv@Luke:21:22 @ For these are the days of vengeance when all that is written will be fulfilled.

isv@Luke:21:23 @ “How terrible it will be for those women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the landand wrath on this people.

isv@Luke:21:24 @ They will fall by the edge of the sword and be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.”

isv@Luke:21:25 @ “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and there will be distress on earth among the nations that are confused by the roaring of the sea and its waves.

isv@Luke:21:26 @ People will faint with fear and apprehension because of the things that are to come on the world, for the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.

isv@Luke:21:27 @ Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in a cloud’with power and great glory.

isv@Luke:21:29 @ Then he told them a parable:“Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

isv@Luke:21:30 @ As soon as they produce leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is already near.

isv@Luke:21:31 @ Inthe same way, when you see these things taking place, you will know that the kingdom of God is near.

isv@Luke:21:32 @ “Truly I tell you, this generation will not disappear until all these things take place.

isv@Luke:21:34 @ “Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts may not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise

isv@Luke:21:36 @ So be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man.”

isv@Luke:21:37 @ Now during the day he would teach in the temple, but at night he would go out and spend the night on what is called the Mount of Olives.

isv@Luke:22:2 @ So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the crowd.

isv@Luke:22:3 @ But Satan went into Judas called Iscariot, who belonged to the circle of the twelve.

isv@Luke:22:8 @ So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying,“Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover meal.”

isv@Luke:22:10 @ He said to them,“Just after you go into the city, a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters

isv@Luke:22:11 @ and say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks you, “Where is the room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?”’

isv@Luke:22:12 @ Then he will show you a large upstairs room that is furnished. Get things ready for us there.”

isv@Luke:22:14 @ Now when the hour came, he took his place at the table, along with the apostles.

isv@Luke:22:15 @ He said to them,“I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer.

isv@Luke:22:16 @ For I tell you, I will never again eat one until it finds its fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”

isv@Luke:22:22 @ For the Son of Man is going away, just as it has been determined, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom he is betrayed!”

isv@Luke:22:24 @ Now an argument sprang up among them as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

isv@Luke:22:26 @ But you are not to do so. On the contrary, the greatest among you should become like the youngest, and the one who leads should become like the one who serves.

isv@Luke:22:27 @ For who is greater, the one who sits at the table, or the one who serves? It is the one at the table, isn't it? But I am among you as one who serves.

isv@Luke:22:29 @ And I confer on you, just as my Father has conferred on me, a kingdom,

isv@Luke:22:30 @ so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit down on thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel.”

isv@Luke:22:31 @ “Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of youlike wheat,

isv@Luke:22:32 @ but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail. When you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers.”

isv@Luke:22:33 @ Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go even to prison and to death with you!”

isv@Luke:22:34 @ But Jesus said,“I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know me.”

isv@Luke:22:35 @ Then he said to them,“When I sent you out without a wallet, traveling bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?”They replied, “Nothing at all.”

isv@Luke:22:36 @ Then he said to them,“But now the one who has a wallet must take it along, and his traveling bag, too. And the one who has no sword must sell his coat and buy one.

isv@Luke:22:37 @ For I tell you, what has been written about me must be fulfilled: ‘He was counted among the criminals.’Indeed, what is written about me must be fulfilled.”

isv@Luke:22:38 @ So they said, “Lord, look! Here are two swords.”He answered them,“Enough of that!”

isv@Luke:22:40 @ When he came to the place, he said to them,“Keep on praying that you may not come into temptation.”

isv@Luke:22:42 @ “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”

isv@Luke:22:44 @ In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like large drops of blood falling on the ground.

isv@Luke:22:46 @ He said to them,“Why are you sleeping? Get up and keep on praying that you may not come into temptation.”

isv@Luke:22:49 @ When those who were around him saw what was about to take place, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?”

isv@Luke:22:54 @ Then they arrested him, led him away, and brought him to the high priest's house. But Peter was following at a distance.

isv@Luke:22:55 @ When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had taken their seats, Peter, too, sat down among them.

isv@Luke:22:56 @ A servant girl saw him sitting by the fire, stared at him, and said, “This man was with him, too.”

isv@Luke:22:58 @ A little later a man looked at him and said, “You are one of them, too.”But Peter said, “Mister, I am not!”

isv@Luke:22:59 @ About an hour later another man emphatically asserted, “This man was certainly with him, for he is a Galilean!”

isv@Luke:22:60 @ But Peter said, “Mister, I don't know what you're talking about!” Just then, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

isv@Luke:22:61 @ Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord and how he had said to him,“Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”

isv@Luke:22:63 @ Then the men who were holding Jesus in custody began to make fun of him while they beat him.

isv@Luke:22:69 @ But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God.”

isv@Luke:22:70 @ Then they all asked, “Are you, then, the Son of God?”He answered them,“You say that I am.”

isv@Luke:23:1 @ Then the whole crowd got up and took him to Pilate.

isv@Luke:23:2 @ They began to accuse him, “We found this man corrupting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that he is the Christ, a king.”

isv@Luke:23:3 @ Then Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”He answered him,“You say so.”

isv@Luke:23:4 @ Then Pilate said to the high priests and crowds, “I do not find anything blameworthy in this man.”

isv@Luke:23:6 @ When Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.

isv@Luke:23:7 @ When he learned with certainty that Jesus came from Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him off to Herod, who was in Jerusalem at that time.

isv@Luke:23:8 @ Now Herod was very glad to see Jesus, because he had been wanting to see him for a long time on account of what he had heard about him. He was also hoping to see some sign done by him.

isv@Luke:23:9 @ So he continued to question him for a long time, but Jesus gave him no answer at all.

isv@Luke:23:11 @ Even Herod and his soldiers treated him with contempt and made fun of him. Then he put a magnificent robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.

isv@Luke:23:12 @ So Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day. Before this they had been enemies.

isv@Luke:23:13 @ Then Pilate called the high priests, the other leaders, and the people together

isv@Luke:23:15 @ Nor does Herod, for he sent him back to us. Indeed, he has done nothing to deserve death.

isv@Luke:23:17 @ Now he was obligated to release someone for them at the festival.

isv@Luke:23:19 @ (This was a man who had been put in prison for a revolt that had taken place in the city and for murder.)

isv@Luke:23:20 @ But Pilate wanted to let Jesus go, so he appealed to them again,

isv@Luke:23:22 @ Then he spoke to them a third time: “What has he done wrong? I have found nothing in him worthy of death. So I will punish him and let him go.”

isv@Luke:23:23 @ But they kept pressing him with loud shouts, demanding that Jesus be crucified, and their shouts began to prevail.

isv@Luke:23:24 @ Then Pilate pronounced his sentence that their demand should be carried out.

isv@Luke:23:27 @ A large crowd of people followed him, including some women who kept beating their breasts and wailing for him.

isv@Luke:23:29 @ For the days are surely coming when peoplewill say, ‘How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

isv@Luke:23:31 @ For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

isv@Luke:23:34 @ Jesus kept saying,“Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they're doing.” Then they divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.

isv@Luke:23:38 @ There was also an inscription over him written in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “This is the King of the Jews.”

isv@Luke:23:41 @ We have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

isv@Luke:23:46 @ Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said,“Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.” After he said this, he breathed his last.

isv@Luke:23:47 @ When the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God and said, “This man certainly was righteous!”

isv@Luke:23:48 @ When all the crowds who had come together for this spectacle saw what had taken place, they beat their breasts and turned back.

isv@Luke:23:49 @ But all his acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, were standing at a distance watching these things.

isv@Luke:23:51 @ he had not voted for their plan and action—from the Jewish town of Arimathea; and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.

isv@Luke:23:52 @ He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

isv@Luke:23:54 @ It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was just beginning.

isv@Luke:23:56 @ Then they went back and prepared spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

isv@Luke:24:1 @ But on the first day of the week at early dawn they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.

isv@Luke:24:6 @ He is not here but has been raised. Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee,

isv@Luke:24:12 @ Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. He stooped down and saw only the linen cloths. Then he went home wondering about what had happened.

isv@Luke:24:14 @ They were talking with each other about all these things that had taken place.

isv@Luke:24:17 @ He asked them,“What are you discussing with each other as you're walking along?” They stood still and looked gloomy.

isv@Luke:24:18 @ The one whose name was Cleopas answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know what happened there these days?”

isv@Luke:24:19 @ He asked them,“What things?”They answered him, “The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in the things that he did and said before God and all the people,

isv@Luke:24:20 @ and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.

isv@Luke:24:21 @ But we kept hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel. What is more, this is now the third day since these things occurred.

isv@Luke:24:22 @ Even some of our women have startled us! They were at the tomb early this morning

isv@Luke:24:23 @ and didn't find his body there, so they came back and told us that they had actually seen a vision of angels who said he was alive.

isv@Luke:24:30 @ While he was at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed it, broke it in pieces, and gave it to them.

isv@Luke:24:33 @ That same hour they got up and went back to Jerusalem and found the eleven and their companions all together.

isv@Luke:24:35 @ Then they themselves began to tell what had happened on the road and how he was recognized by them when he broke the bread in pieces.

isv@Luke:24:39 @ Look at my hands and my feet, for it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

isv@Luke:24:41 @ While they still could not believe it for joy and were full of amazement, he said to them,“Do you have anything here to eat?”

isv@Luke:24:43 @ and he took it and ate it in their presence.

isv@Luke:24:44 @ Then he said to them,“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to be fulfilled.”

isv@Luke:24:45 @ Then he opened their minds so that they might come to understand the Scriptures.

isv@Luke:24:46 @ He said to them,“Thus it is written, that the Christwas to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,

isv@Luke:24:47 @ and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

isv@Luke:24:49 @ I am sending on you what my Father promised. But stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

isv@Luke:24:52 @ They worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

isv@John:1:3 @ Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

isv@John:1:4 @ In him was life, and that life brought light to humanity.

isv@John:1:7 @ He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe through him.

isv@John:1:9 @ This was the true light that enlightens every person by his coming into the world.

isv@John:1:11 @ He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

isv@John:1:14 @ The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, full of grace and truth.

isv@John:1:18 @ No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.

isv@John:1:22 @ Then they said to him, “Who are you? We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

isv@John:1:26 @ John answered them, “I am baptizing with water, but among you stands a man whom you do not know,

isv@John:1:31 @ I didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel.”

isv@John:1:33 @ I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The person on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

isv@John:1:34 @ I have seen this and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

isv@John:1:36 @ As he watched Jesus walk by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

isv@John:1:38 @ But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he said to them,“What are you looking for?”They said to him, “Rabbi,” (which is translated “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”

isv@John:1:39 @ He told them,“Come, and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

isv@John:1:41 @ Andrew first found his brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated “Christ”).

isv@John:1:42 @ He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said,“You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated “Peter”).

isv@John:1:45 @ Philip found Nathaniel and told him, “We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote—Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”

isv@John:1:46 @ Nathaniel said to him, “Out of Nazareth? What good can that be?”Philip told him, “Come and see!”

isv@John:1:47 @ Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him,“Look, a true Israelite, in whom there is no falsehood!”

isv@John:1:48 @ Nathaniel said to him, “How do you know me?”Jesus answered him,“Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

isv@John:1:49 @ Nathaniel replied to him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”

isv@John:1:50 @ Jesus said to him,“Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that.”

isv@John:2:4 @ Jesus said to her,“How does that concern us, woman? My hour has not yet come.”

isv@John:2:5 @ His mother told the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

isv@John:2:6 @ Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

isv@John:2:7 @ Jesus told the servants,“Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.

isv@John:2:9 @ When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

isv@John:2:14 @ In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.

isv@John:2:15 @ Making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables.

isv@John:2:16 @ Then he told those who were selling the doves,“Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!”

isv@John:2:17 @ His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

isv@John:2:18 @ Then the Jews said to him, “What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?”

isv@John:2:22 @ After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

isv@John:2:23 @ While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing.

isv@John:2:25 @ and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like. For he himself knew what was in every person.

isv@John:3:2 @ He came to Jesus at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him.”

isv@John:3:5 @ Jesus answered,“Truly, truly I tell you, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

isv@John:3:6 @ Whatis born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

isv@John:3:7 @ Don't be astonished that I said to you, ‘All of youmust be born from above.’

isv@John:3:8 @ The windblows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

isv@John:3:9 @ Nicodemus said to him, “How can that be?”

isv@John:3:11 @ Truly, truly I tell you, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you peopledo not accept our testimony.

isv@John:3:15 @ so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

isv@John:3:16 @ “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but have eternal life.

isv@John:3:17 @ For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

isv@John:3:20 @ For everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

isv@John:3:21 @ But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that all may seethat his actions have been done in God.”

isv@John:3:23 @ John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

isv@John:3:25 @ Then a controversy about ritual purification sprang up between John's disciples and a certain Jew.

isv@John:3:28 @ You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of him.’

isv@John:3:29 @ It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

isv@John:3:32 @ He testifies about what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.

isv@John:3:33 @ The person who has accepted his testimony has acknowledged that God is truthful.

isv@John:3:35 @ The Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hands.

isv@John:3:36 @ The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

isv@John:4:1 @ Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John—

isv@John:4:5 @ So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

isv@John:4:6 @ Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about twelve noon.

isv@John:4:7 @ A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her,“Please give me a drink.”

isv@John:4:10 @ Jesus answered her,“If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Please give me a drink,’ you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water.”

isv@John:4:11 @ The woman said to him, “Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

isv@John:4:12 @ You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?”

isv@John:4:13 @ Jesus answered her,“Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.

isv@John:4:14 @ But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

isv@John:4:15 @ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”

isv@John:4:18 @ For you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

isv@John:4:19 @ The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet!

isv@John:4:20 @ Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem.”

isv@John:4:21 @ Jesus said to her,“Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you Samaritanswill worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

isv@John:4:22 @ You don't know what you're worshiping. We know what we're worshiping, for salvation comes from the Jews.

isv@John:4:23 @ Yet the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spiritand truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

isv@John:4:25 @ The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will tell us everything.”

isv@John:4:27 @ At this point his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want from her?” or, “Why are you talking to her?”

isv@John:4:28 @ Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told the people,

isv@John:4:31 @ Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, have something to eat.”

isv@John:4:32 @ But he said to them,“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

isv@John:4:33 @ So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one has brought him anything to eat, has he?”

isv@John:4:35 @ You say, don't you, ‘In four more months the harvest will be here?’ Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are readyfor harvesting!

isv@John:4:36 @ The one who harvests is already receiving his wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who harvests may rejoice together.

isv@John:4:38 @ I have sent you to harvest what you have not labored for. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

isv@John:4:39 @ Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because of the woman's testimony when she testified, “He told me everything I've ever done.”

isv@John:4:42 @ They kept telling the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world.”

isv@John:4:43 @ Two days later, Jesus went from that place to Galilee.

isv@John:4:44 @ For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

isv@John:4:45 @ When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival. For they, too, had gone to the festival.

isv@John:4:46 @ So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill.

isv@John:4:47 @ When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

isv@John:4:50 @ Jesus said to him,“Go home. Your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus told him and started on his way.

isv@John:4:51 @ While he was on his way down, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive.

isv@John:4:52 @ So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon.”

isv@John:4:53 @ Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him,“Your son will live.” And he himself believed, along with his whole family.

isv@John:4:54 @ Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

isv@John:5:1 @ Later on, there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

isv@John:5:2 @ Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It has five colonnades,

isv@John:5:3 @ and under these a large number of sick people were lying—blind, lame, or paralyzed—waiting for the movement of the water.

isv@John:5:4 @ For at certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water. And the one who stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

isv@John:5:6 @ When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him,“Do you want to get well?”

isv@John:5:7 @ The sick man answered him, “Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me.”

isv@John:5:8 @ Jesus said to him,“Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”

isv@John:5:9 @ The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.

isv@John:5:10 @ So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”

isv@John:5:11 @ But he answered them, “The man who made me well told me,‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

isv@John:5:13 @ But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

isv@John:5:14 @ Later on, Jesus found him in the temple and told him,“See, you have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”

isv@John:5:15 @ The man went off and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

isv@John:5:16 @ So the Jews began persecuting Jesus because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

isv@John:5:17 @ But Jesus answered them,“My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working.”

isv@John:5:18 @ So the Jews were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal to God.

isv@John:5:19 @ Jesus said to them,“Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For what he does, the Son does likewise.

isv@John:5:20 @ For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing. And he will show him even greater works than these, so that you may be amazed.

isv@John:5:21 @ Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he chooses.

isv@John:5:22 @ For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

isv@John:5:23 @ so that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

isv@John:5:24 @ “Truly, truly I tell you, the one who hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life.

isv@John:5:26 @ For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself.

isv@John:5:28 @ Don't be amazed at this, because the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice

isv@John:5:29 @ and will come out—those who have done what is good to the resurrection of life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection of condemnation.

isv@John:5:32 @ There is another who testifies about me, and I knowthat the testimony he gives about me is true.

isv@John:5:34 @ I myself do not accept human testimony, but I am saying these things so that you may be saved.

isv@John:5:35 @ That man was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

isv@John:5:36 @ But I have a greater testimony than John's, for the works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

isv@John:5:37 @ Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his appearance,

isv@John:5:39 @ You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.

isv@John:5:42 @ I know that you do not have the love of God in you.

isv@John:5:43 @ I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. Yet if another man comes in his own name, you will accept him.

isv@John:5:44 @ How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

isv@John:5:45 @ Do not suppose that I will be the one to accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

isv@John:5:46 @ For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.

isv@John:5:47 @ But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe my words?”

isv@John:6:2 @ A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing on the sick.

isv@John:6:3 @ But Jesus went up on a hillside and sat down there with his disciples.

isv@John:6:5 @ When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he said to Philip,“Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”

isv@John:6:6 @ Jesus said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.

isv@John:6:9 @ “There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are they among so many people?”

isv@John:6:10 @ Jesus said,“Have the people sit down.” Now there was plenty of grass in that place. So the men sat down, numbering about 5,000.

isv@John:6:11 @ Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were seated. He also distributed the fish, as much as they wanted.

isv@John:6:12 @ When they were completely satisfied, he told his disciples,“Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is lost.”

isv@John:6:13 @ So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

isv@John:6:14 @ When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, “Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

isv@John:6:15 @ Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

isv@John:6:17 @ got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already fallen, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

isv@John:6:19 @ They had rowed about three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat. They became terrified.

isv@John:6:21 @ So they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.

isv@John:6:22 @ The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

isv@John:6:23 @ Other small boats from Tiberias arrived near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

isv@John:6:24 @ When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

isv@John:6:26 @ Jesus replied to them,“Truly, truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

isv@John:6:27 @ Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”

isv@John:6:28 @ Then they said to him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?”

isv@John:6:30 @ So they said to him, “What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you performing?

isv@John:6:31 @ Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

isv@John:6:32 @ Jesus said to them,“Truly, truly I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

isv@John:6:36 @ I told you that you have seen me, yet you do not believe.

isv@John:6:37 @ Everything the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never turn away.

isv@John:6:39 @ And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

isv@John:6:40 @ For this is my Father's will, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day.”

isv@John:6:41 @ Then the Jews began grumbling about him because he said,“I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

isv@John:6:42 @ They kept saying, “This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

isv@John:6:44 @ No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

isv@John:6:45 @ It is written in the Prophets, ‘And all of them will be taught by God.’Everyone who has listened to the Father and has learned anything comes to me.

isv@John:6:46 @ Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who comes from God. This one has seen the Father.

isv@John:6:49 @ Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness and died.

isv@John:6:50 @ This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.

isv@John:6:51 @ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. And the bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

isv@John:6:52 @ Then the Jews debated angrily with each other, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

isv@John:6:53 @ So Jesus told them,“Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

isv@John:6:54 @ The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

isv@John:6:56 @ The person who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

isv@John:6:57 @ Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will also live because of me.

isv@John:6:58 @ This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

isv@John:6:59 @ He said this while teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

isv@John:6:60 @ When many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?”

isv@John:6:61 @ But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them,“Does this offend you?

isv@John:6:62 @ What if you saw the Son of Man going up to the place where he was before?

isv@John:6:63 @ It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

isv@John:6:65 @ So he said,“That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father.”

isv@John:6:66 @ As a result, many of his disciples turned back and no longer associated with him.

isv@John:6:69 @ Besides, we have believed and remain convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”

isv@John:7:3 @ So his brothers said to him, “You should leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples can see the works that you're doing.

isv@John:7:7 @ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.

isv@John:7:11 @ The Jews kept looking for him at the festival, saying, “Where is that man?”

isv@John:7:12 @ And there was a great deal of discussion about him among the crowds.Some were saying, “He is a good man,” while others were saying, “No, he is deceiving the crowd!”

isv@John:7:15 @ The Jews were astonished and remarked, “How can this man be so educated when he has never gone to school?”

isv@John:7:22 @ Moses gave you circumcision—not that it is from Moses, but from the Patriarchs—and so you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

isv@John:7:23 @ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

isv@John:7:26 @ And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?

isv@John:7:28 @ At this point Jesus, still teaching in the temple, shouted,“So you know me and know where I have come from? I have not come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he is the one you do not know.

isv@John:7:32 @ The Pharisees heard the crowd debating these things about him, so the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

isv@John:7:35 @ Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go so that we will not find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

isv@John:7:36 @ What does this statement mean that he made,‘You will look for me but will not find me,’ and‘Where I will be, you cannot come’?”

isv@John:7:38 @ The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart.”

isv@John:7:42 @ Doesn't the Scripture say that the Christ is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

isv@John:7:46 @ The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like that!”

isv@John:7:49 @ But this mob that does not know the law—they are accursed!”

isv@John:7:51 @ “Surely our law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?”

isv@John:7:52 @ They answered him, “You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee.”

isv@John:8:2 @ At daybreak he appeared again in the temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

isv@John:8:5 @ Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?”

isv@John:8:6 @ They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

isv@John:8:7 @ When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and said to them,“Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

isv@John:8:12 @ Later on Jesus spoke to them again, saying,“I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

isv@John:8:17 @ In your own law it is written that the testimony of two people is valid.

isv@John:8:18 @ I am testifying about myself, and the Father who sent me is testifying about me.”

isv@John:8:19 @ Then they said to him, “Where is this Father of yours?”Jesus replied,“You do not know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.”

isv@John:8:21 @ Later on he said to them again,“I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot come where I am going.”

isv@John:8:22 @ So the Jews said, “He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said,‘You cannot come where I am going’?”

isv@John:8:24 @ That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

isv@John:8:25 @ Then they said to him, “Who are you?”Jesus told them,“What have I been telling you all along?

isv@John:8:26 @ I have much to say about you and to condemn you for.But the one who sent me is truthful,and what I have heard from him I declare to the world.”

isv@John:8:27 @ They didn't realize that he was talking to them about the Father.

isv@John:8:28 @ So Jesus told them,“When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

isv@John:8:29 @ Moreover, the one who sent me is with me. He has never left me alone because I always do what pleases him.”

isv@John:8:34 @ Jesus answered them,“Truly, truly I tell you that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

isv@John:8:37 @ “I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because my word finds no reception among you.

isv@John:8:38 @ I declare what I have seen in myFather's presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.”

isv@John:8:39 @ They replied to him, “Our father is Abraham!”Jesus said to them,“If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did.

isv@John:8:40 @ But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.

isv@John:8:41 @ You are doing your father's works.”They said to him, “We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself.”

isv@John:8:42 @ Jesus told them,“If God were your Father, you would have loved me, because I came from God and am here. For I have not come on my own accord, but he sent me.

isv@John:8:44 @ You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood by the truth,since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie he speaks in character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

isv@John:8:45 @ But it is because I speak the truth that you do not believe me.

isv@John:8:48 @ The Jews replied to him, “Surely we are right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon, aren't we?”

isv@John:8:49 @ Jesus answered,“I don't have a demon. On the contrary, I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

isv@John:8:51 @ Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death at all.”

isv@John:8:52 @ Then the Jews said to him, “Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say,‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death at all.’

isv@John:8:53 @ You aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who are you making yourself out to be?”

isv@John:8:54 @ Jesus answered,“If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’

isv@John:8:55 @ You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

isv@John:8:56 @ Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

isv@John:8:59 @ At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

isv@John:9:2 @ His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?”

isv@John:9:3 @ Jesus answered,“Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so thatthe works of God might be revealed in him.

isv@John:9:7 @ and told him,“Go and wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated “Sent One”). So he went off and washed and came back seeing.

isv@John:9:12 @ They said to him, “Where is that man?”He said, “I don't know!”

isv@John:9:14 @ Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

isv@John:9:16 @ Some of the Pharisees began to remark, “This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath.”But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

isv@John:9:17 @ So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, for it was your eyes he opened?”He said, “He is a prophet.”

isv@John:9:18 @ The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had been given sight until they summoned his parents

isv@John:9:20 @ His parents replied, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

isv@John:9:21 @ But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself.”

isv@John:9:22 @ His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ would be thrown out of the synagogue.

isv@John:9:23 @ That's why his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”

isv@John:9:24 @ So for a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

isv@John:9:25 @ But he responded, “I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!”

isv@John:9:26 @ Then they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

isv@John:9:28 @ At this, they turned on him furiously and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

isv@John:9:29 @ We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from.”

isv@John:9:31 @ We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will.

isv@John:9:32 @ Never since creation has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man who was born blind.

isv@John:9:33 @ If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that.”

isv@John:9:35 @ Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he said,“Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

isv@John:9:36 @ He answered, “And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him.”

isv@John:9:39 @ Then Jesus said,“I have come into this world for judgment, so that those who are blind may see, and those who see may become blind.”

isv@John:9:41 @ Jesus told them,“If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”

isv@John:10:1 @ “Truly, truly I tell you, the person who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit.

isv@John:10:2 @ The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

isv@John:10:3 @ It is to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it is his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

isv@John:10:6 @ Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.

isv@John:10:7 @ So again Jesus said,“Truly, truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

isv@John:10:9 @ I am the gate. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

isv@John:10:10 @ The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

isv@John:10:12 @ The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

isv@John:10:13 @ For he is a hired hand, and the sheep do not matter to him.

isv@John:10:15 @ just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay downmy life for the sheep.

isv@John:10:16 @ I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.

isv@John:10:17 @ This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again.

isv@John:10:18 @ No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is a command that I have received from my Father.”

isv@John:10:25 @ Jesus answered them,“I have told you, but you do not believe it. The works that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf,

isv@John:10:28 @ I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

isv@John:10:29 @ What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it from the Father's hand.

isv@John:10:30 @ I and the Father are one.”

isv@John:10:31 @ Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him to death.

isv@John:10:32 @ Jesus replied to them,“I have shown you many good works from myFather. For which of them are you going to stone me?”

isv@John:10:36 @ how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

isv@John:10:37 @ If I am not doing my Father's works, do not believe me.

isv@John:10:38 @ But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understandthat the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

isv@John:10:40 @ Then he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there.

isv@John:10:41 @ Many people came to him and kept saying, “John never performed a sign, but all the things that John said about this man were true!”

isv@John:11:4 @ But when Jesus heard it, he said,“This illness is not meant to end in death. It is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

isv@John:11:6 @ Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two days.

isv@John:11:8 @ The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?”

isv@John:11:10 @ But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

isv@John:11:13 @ Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

isv@John:11:15 @ For your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let's go to him.”

isv@John:11:16 @ Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let's go, too, so that we may die with him!”

isv@John:11:17 @ When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

isv@John:11:20 @ As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.

isv@John:11:22 @ But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give it to you.”

isv@John:11:24 @ Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

isv@John:11:26 @ Indeed, everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?”

isv@John:11:27 @ She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world.”

isv@John:11:28 @ When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you!”

isv@John:11:30 @ Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

isv@John:11:31 @ When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

isv@John:11:32 @ As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

isv@John:11:33 @ When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

isv@John:11:40 @ Jesus said to her,“I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?”

isv@John:11:41 @ So they removed the stone.Then Jesus looked upward and said,“Father, I thank you for hearing me.

isv@John:11:42 @ I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.”

isv@John:11:45 @ Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

isv@John:11:46 @ Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

isv@John:11:47 @ So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

isv@John:11:48 @ If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our temple and our nation.”

isv@John:11:49 @ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, “You don't know anything!

isv@John:11:50 @ You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.”

isv@John:11:51 @ Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

isv@John:11:52 @ and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

isv@John:11:53 @ So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

isv@John:11:56 @ They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?”

isv@John:11:57 @ Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

isv@John:12:2 @ There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.

isv@John:12:6 @ He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

isv@John:12:7 @ Then Jesus said,“Leave her alone, so that she might keep it for the day of my burial.

isv@John:12:9 @ When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

isv@John:12:12 @ The next day the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.

isv@John:12:14 @ Then Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written:

isv@John:12:16 @ At first his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

isv@John:12:17 @ So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

isv@John:12:18 @ This accounts for the crowd going out to meet him, for they had heard that he had performed this sign.

isv@John:12:20 @ Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.

isv@John:12:24 @ Truly, truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces a lot of grain.

isv@John:12:25 @ The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

isv@John:12:26 @ If anyone serves me, he must follow me. And where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.”

isv@John:12:27 @ “Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say—‘Father, save me from this hour’? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

isv@John:12:28 @ Father, glorify your name.”Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!”

isv@John:12:29 @ The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, “An angel has spoken to him.”

isv@John:12:33 @ He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.

isv@John:12:34 @ Then the crowd answered him, “We have learned from the law that the Christ remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

isv@John:12:35 @ Jesus said to them,“The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

isv@John:12:36 @ As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.” After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.

isv@John:12:38 @ so that the word that the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said: “Lord, who has believed our message,and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

isv@John:12:40 @ “He has blinded their eyesand hardened their heart, so that they might not perceive with their eyes,and understand with their heart and turn,and I would heal them.”

isv@John:12:42 @ Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it for fear that they would be thrown out of the synagogue.

isv@John:12:46 @ I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me will not remain in the darkness.

isv@John:12:48 @ The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has something to judge him: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

isv@John:12:49 @ For I have not spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and how to speak.

isv@John:12:50 @ And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.”

isv@John:13:1 @ Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

isv@John:13:3 @ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was returning to God,

isv@John:13:5 @ Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel that was tied around his waist.

isv@John:13:7 @ Jesus answered him,“You do not realize now what I am doing, but later on you will understand.”

isv@John:13:10 @ Jesus told him,“The person who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is entirely clean. And you menare clean, though not all of you.”

isv@John:13:11 @ For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said,“Not all of you are clean.”

isv@John:13:12 @ When he had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and said to them,“Do you realize what I have done to you?

isv@John:13:13 @ You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right because that is what I am.

isv@John:13:15 @ For I have given you an example, so that you may do as I have done to you.

isv@John:13:16 @ Truly, truly I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him.

isv@John:13:18 @ I'm not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: ‘The one who ate bread with mehas lifted up his heel againstme.’

isv@John:13:19 @ I'm telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe that I am he.

isv@John:13:22 @ The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified about whom he was speaking.

isv@John:13:27 @ After he had taken the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him,“Do quickly what you are going to do!”

isv@John:13:28 @ Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him.

isv@John:13:29 @ Some thought that, since Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the destitute.

isv@John:13:30 @ So Judas took the piece of bread and immediately went outside. And it was night.

isv@John:13:32 @ If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify the Son of Manin himself, and he will glorify him at once.

isv@John:13:33 @ Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the JewsI now tell you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

isv@John:13:35 @ This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

isv@John:13:36 @ Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?”Jesus answered him,“I am going where you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later on.”

isv@John:14:2 @ There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you?

isv@John:14:3 @ And if I am going away to prepare a place for you, I will come again and will welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am.

isv@John:14:6 @ Jesus said to him,“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

isv@John:14:7 @ If you have known me, you will also know my Father. From now on you know him and have seen him.”

isv@John:14:8 @ Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will satisfy us.”

isv@John:14:9 @ Jesus said to him,“Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

isv@John:14:10 @ You believe, don't you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me who does his works.

isv@John:14:11 @ Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe mebecause of the works themselves.

isv@John:14:12 @ “Truly, truly I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater works than these because I am going to the Father.

isv@John:14:13 @ I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

isv@John:14:16 @ I will ask the Father to giveyou another Helper, to be with you always.

isv@John:14:20 @ On that day you will know that I am in my Father and that you are in me and that I am in you.

isv@John:14:21 @ The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him.”

isv@John:14:22 @ Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

isv@John:14:23 @ Jesus answered him,“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him.

isv@John:14:24 @ The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine, but comes from the Father who sent me.

isv@John:14:26 @ But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of all that I have told you.

isv@John:14:28 @ You have heard me tell you, ‘I am going away, but I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I am.

isv@John:14:29 @ I have told you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.

isv@John:14:31 @ But I am doing what the Father has commanded me to let the world know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us leave this place.”

isv@John:15:1 @ “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower.

isv@John:15:2 @ He removes every branch in me that does not produce fruit, and he cleanses every branch that does produce fruit so that it might produce more fruit.

isv@John:15:3 @ You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

isv@John:15:6 @ Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up. People gather such branchesand throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

isv@John:15:8 @ This is how my Father is glorified, when you produce a lot of fruit and prove to be my disciples.

isv@John:15:9 @ Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love.

isv@John:15:10 @ If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

isv@John:15:11 @ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

isv@John:15:12 @ “This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.

isv@John:15:13 @ No one showsgreater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

isv@John:15:14 @ You are my friends if you do what I command you.

isv@John:15:15 @ I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

isv@John:15:16 @ “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last,so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

isv@John:15:17 @ I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another.”

isv@John:15:18 @ “If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.

isv@John:15:19 @ If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it,the world hates you.

isv@John:15:20 @ Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

isv@John:15:23 @ The person who hates me also hates my Father.

isv@John:15:24 @ If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

isv@John:15:25 @ But this happened so thatthe word written in their law might be fulfilled: ‘They hated me for no reason.’

isv@John:15:26 @ “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf.

isv@John:16:3 @ They will do this because they have not known the Father or me.

isv@John:16:4 @ But I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you this in the beginning, because I was with you.”

isv@John:16:7 @ However, I am telling you the truth. It is for your advantage that I am going away, for if I do not go away the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

isv@John:16:10 @ of righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

isv@John:16:13 @ Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own accord, but will speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

isv@John:16:14 @ He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

isv@John:16:15 @ All that the Father has is mine. That is why I said, ‘He will take what is mine and declare it to you.’

isv@John:16:17 @ At this point, some of his disciples said to each another, “What does he mean by telling us,‘In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,’ and‘because I am going to the Father’?”

isv@John:16:18 @ They kept saying, “What is this‘in a little while’ that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means.”

isv@John:16:19 @ Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he said to them,“Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again’?

isv@John:16:23 @ On that day, you will not ask me for anything. Truly, truly I tell you, whatever you ask the Father for in my name, he will give it to you.

isv@John:16:24 @ So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.”

isv@John:16:25 @ “I have said these things to you in figurative language. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

isv@John:16:26 @ On that day, you will ask in my name. I am not telling you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

isv@John:16:27 @ For the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

isv@John:16:28 @ I left the Father and have come into the world. NowI am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

isv@John:16:29 @ His disciples said, “Well, now you're speaking plainly and not using figurative language.

isv@John:16:30 @ Now we know that you know everything and do not need to have anyone ask you questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God.”

isv@John:16:32 @ Listen, the hour is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

isv@John:16:33 @ Ihave told you this so that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have trouble, but be courageous—I have overcome the world!”

isv@John:17:1 @ After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said,“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you.

isv@John:17:2 @ Foryou have given him authority over all humanityso that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

isv@John:17:5 @ So now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.

isv@John:17:7 @ Now they realize that everything you gave me comes from you,

isv@John:17:8 @ because the words that you gave me I have given to them. They have received them and know for sure that I came from you. And they have believed that you sent me.

isv@John:17:10 @ All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them.

isv@John:17:11 @ I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name, the namethat you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

isv@John:17:12 @ While I was with them, I protected them by your name that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destinedfordestruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

isv@John:17:13 @ “And now I am coming to you, and I say these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves.

isv@John:17:14 @ I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, for they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

isv@John:17:19 @ It is for their sakes that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified by the truth.

isv@John:17:21 @ that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be onein us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

isv@John:17:22 @ I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.

isv@John:17:23 @ I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.

isv@John:17:24 @ Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

isv@John:17:25 @ “Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me.

isv@John:17:26 @ I made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have for memay be in them and I myself may be in them.”

isv@John:18:4 @ Then Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen, went forward and said to them,“Who are you looking for?”

isv@John:18:8 @ Jesus replied,“I told you that I am he. So if you are looking for me, let these men go.”

isv@John:18:9 @ This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken,“I did not lose a single one of those you gave me.”

isv@John:18:11 @ Jesus told Peter,“Put your sword back into its sheath. Shouldn't I drink the cup that the Father has given me?”

isv@John:18:13 @ First they brought him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

isv@John:18:14 @ Caiaphas was the person who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one man die for the people.

isv@John:18:16 @ Peter, however, stood outside the gate. So this other disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter inside.

isv@John:18:17 @ The young woman at the gate said to Peter, “You aren't one of this man's disciples, too, are you?”He said, “I am not.”

isv@John:18:21 @ Why do you question me? Question those who heard what I said. These are the people who know what I said.”

isv@John:18:22 @ When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus on the face and said, “Is that any way to answer the high priest?”

isv@John:18:23 @ Jesus answered him,“If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was.But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?”

isv@John:18:26 @ Then one of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “I saw you in the garden with him, didn't I?”

isv@John:18:27 @ Peter again denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.

isv@John:18:28 @ Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early in the morning, and the Jews did not go into the headquarters for fear that they might become unclean and be unable to eat the Passover meal.

isv@John:18:29 @ So Pilate came out to them and said, “What accusation are you bringing against this man?”

isv@John:18:31 @ Pilate told them, “You take him and try him according to your law.”The Jews said to him, “It is not legal for us to put anyone to death.”

isv@John:18:32 @ This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

isv@John:18:33 @ So Pilate went back into the governor's headquarters, summoned Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

isv@John:18:34 @ Jesus replied,“Are you asking this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about me?”

isv@John:18:35 @ Pilate replied, “I am not a Jew, am I? It is your own nation and high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?”

isv@John:18:37 @ Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?”Jesus answered,“You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”

isv@John:18:38 @ Pilate said to him, “What is ‘truth’?” After he said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.

isv@John:18:39 @ But you have a custom that I release one person for you at Passover. Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”

isv@John:18:40 @ At this, they shouted out again, “Not this fellow, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

isv@John:19:1 @ Then Pilate had Jesus taken away and whipped.

isv@John:19:4 @ Pilate went outside again and told the Jews, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

isv@John:19:5 @ Then Jesus came outside, wearing the victor's crown of thorns and the purple robe.Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

isv@John:19:6 @ When the high priests and the officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”Pilate told them, “You take him and crucify him. I find no basis for a charge against him.”

isv@John:19:7 @ The Jews answered Pilate, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die because he made himself out to be the Son of God.”

isv@John:19:8 @ When Pilate heard this, he became even more afraid.

isv@John:19:10 @ So Pilate said to him, “Aren't you going to speak to me? You realize, don't you, that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?”

isv@John:19:11 @ Jesus answered him,“You have no authority over me at all, except what was given to you from above. That's why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

isv@John:19:12 @ From then on, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this fellow, you're not a friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king is defying Caesar!”

isv@John:19:13 @ When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in a place called The Pavement, which in Hebrew is called Gabbatha.

isv@John:19:14 @ Now it was the Preparation Day for the Passover, about twelve noon. He said to the Jews, “Here is your king!”

isv@John:19:15 @ Then they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”The high priests responded, “We have no king but Caesar!”

isv@John:19:16 @ Then Pilate handed him over to be crucified, and they took Jesus away.

isv@John:19:17 @ Carrying the cross all by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

isv@John:19:19 @ Pilate wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus from Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”

isv@John:19:20 @ Many Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. It was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

isv@John:19:21 @ Then the Jewish high priests told Pilate, “Don't write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this fellow said,‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

isv@John:19:22 @ Pilate replied, “What I have written I have written.”

isv@John:19:24 @ So they said to each other, “Let's not tear it. Instead, let's throw dice to see who gets it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture that says, “They divided my clothes among themselves,and for my clothing they threw dice.”So that is what the soldiers did.

isv@John:19:27 @ Then he said to the disciple,“Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

isv@John:19:28 @ After this, when Jesus realized that everything was now completed, he said (in order to fulfill the Scripture),“I'm thirsty.”

isv@John:19:31 @ Since it was the Preparation Day, the Jews did not want to leave the bodies on the crosses during the Sabbath, for that was a particularly important Sabbath. So they asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.

isv@John:19:33 @ But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

isv@John:19:34 @ Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water immediately came out.

isv@John:19:35 @ The one who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows he is telling the truth so that you, too, may believe.

isv@John:19:36 @ For these things happened so that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “None of his bones will be broken.”

isv@John:19:38 @ Later on, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (though a secret one because he was afraid of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, and he came and removed his body.

isv@John:19:39 @ Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds.

isv@John:19:41 @ A garden was located in the place where he was crucified, and in that garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed.

isv@John:19:42 @ Because it was the Jewish Preparation Day, and because the tomb was nearby, they put Jesus there.

isv@John:20:1 @ On the first day of the week, early in the morning and while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and noticed that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

isv@John:20:6 @ At this point Simon Peter arrived, following him, and went straight into the tomb. He observed that the linen cloths were lying there,

isv@John:20:7 @ and that the handkerchief that had been on Jesus’ head was not lying with the linen cloths but was rolled up in a separate place.

isv@John:20:8 @ Then the other disciple, who arrived at the tomb first, went inside, looked, and believed.

isv@John:20:9 @ For they did not yet understand the Scripture that said that he had to rise from the dead.

isv@John:20:12 @ She saw two angels in white clothes who were sitting down, one at the head and the other at the foot of the place where Jesus’ body had been lying.

isv@John:20:14 @ After she had said this, she turned around and noticed Jesus standing there, without realizing that it was Jesus.

isv@John:20:17 @ Jesus told her,“Don't hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

isv@John:20:18 @ So Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” She also told them what he had said to her.

isv@John:20:21 @ Jesus said to them again,“Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.”

isv@John:20:22 @ When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,“Receive the Holy Spirit.

isv@John:20:26 @ A week later his disciples were again inside, and Thomas was with them. Even though the doors were shut, Jesus came, stood among them, and said,“Peace be with you.”

isv@John:20:27 @ Then he said to Thomas,“Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Take your hand, and put it into my side. Stop doubting, but believe.”

isv@John:20:29 @ Jesus said to him,“Is it because you have seen me that you have believed? How blessed are those who have never seen me and yet have believed!”

isv@John:20:30 @ Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not recorded in this book.

isv@John:20:31 @ But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that through believing you may have life in his name.

isv@John:21:1 @ Later on, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way.

isv@John:21:2 @ Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathaniel from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two of his other disciples were together.

isv@John:21:3 @ Simon Peter said to them, “I'm going fishing.”They told him, “We'll go with you, too.” So they went out and got into the boat but didn't catch a thing that night.

isv@John:21:6 @ He told them,“Throw the net on the right hand side of the boat, and you'll catchsome.” So they threw it out and were unable to haul it in because it was so full of fish.

isv@John:21:7 @ That disciple whom Jesus kept loving said to Peter, “It's the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put back on his clothes, for he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.

isv@John:21:8 @ But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish. They were only about a hundred yards away from the shore.

isv@John:21:9 @ When they arrived at the shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish lying on it, and some bread.

isv@John:21:14 @ This was now the third time that Jesus revealed himself to the disciples after he had been raised from the dead.

isv@John:21:15 @ When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter,“Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”Jesus told him,“Feed my lambs.”

isv@John:21:16 @ Then he said to him a second time,“Simon, son of John, do you love me?”He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”Jesus told him,“Take care of my sheep.”

isv@John:21:17 @ He said to him a third time,“Simon, son of John, do you love me?”Peter was deeply hurt that he had said to him a third time,“Do you love me?”So he said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you!”Jesus told him,“Feed my sheep.

isv@John:21:19 @ Now he said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God.After saying this, he told him,“Keep following me.”

isv@John:21:20 @ Peter turned around and noticed the disciple whom Jesus kept loving following them. He was the one who had put his head on Jesus’ chest at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?”

isv@John:21:21 @ When Peter saw him, he said, “Lord, what about him?”

isv@John:21:22 @ Jesus said to him,“If it is my will for him to remain until I come, how does that concern you? You must keep following me!”

isv@John:21:23 @ So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wasn't going to die, but,“If it is my will for him to remain until I come, how does that concern you?”

isv@John:21:24 @ This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them down. We know that his testimony is true.

isv@John:21:25 @ Of course, Jesus also did many other things, and I suppose that if every one of them were written down the world couldn't contain the books that would be written.

isv@Acts:1:4 @ While he was meeting with them, he ordered them,“Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the Father's promise, about which you heard me speak.

isv@Acts:1:5 @ ForJohn baptized withwater, but you will be baptized withthe Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

isv@Acts:1:7 @ He answered them,“It is not for you to know what times or periods the Father has set by his own authority.

isv@Acts:1:9 @ After saying this, he was taken up while they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

isv@Acts:1:12 @ Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.

isv@Acts:1:13 @ When they came into the city, they went to the upstairs room where they had been staying. They were Peter and John; James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas the son of James.

isv@Acts:1:15 @ At that time Peter got up among the brothers (there were about 120 people present) and said,

isv@Acts:1:19 @ This became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that this field is called in their language Hakeldama, that is, “The Field of Blood”.)

isv@Acts:1:20 @ “For in the Book of Psalms it is written, ‘Let his estate be desolate, and let no one live on it,’and ‘Let someone else take over his office.’

isv@Acts:1:21 @ Therefore, one of the men who has associated with us all the time the Lord Jesus came and went among us,

isv@Acts:1:23 @ So they nominated two men—Joseph called Barsabbas, who also was called Justus, and Matthias.

isv@Acts:1:26 @ So they drew lots for them, and when the lot fell on Matthias, he was added to the eleven apostles.

isv@Acts:2:3 @ They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated, and one rested on each of them.

isv@Acts:2:4 @ All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them that ability.

isv@Acts:2:5 @ Now devout Jews from every nation under heaven were living in Jerusalem.

isv@Acts:2:6 @ When that sound came, the crowd rushed together and was startled because each one heard the disciples speaking in his own language.

isv@Acts:2:8 @ So how is it that each one of us hears them speaking in his own native language?

isv@Acts:2:11 @ We are Jews, proselytes, Cretans, and Arabs. Yet we hear them telling in our own tongues the great deeds of God!”

isv@Acts:2:12 @ All of them continued to be stunned and puzzled, and they kept asking one another, “What can this mean?”

isv@Acts:2:14 @ Then Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice, and addressed them, “Men of Judea and everyone living in Jerusalem! You must understand something, so pay close attention to my words.

isv@Acts:2:16 @ Rather, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

isv@Acts:2:20 @ The sun will turn to darkness,and the moon to blood,before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.

isv@Acts:2:22 @ “Fellow Israelites, listen to these words! Jesus from Nazareth was a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs that God performed through him among you, as you yourselves know.

isv@Acts:2:24 @ But God raised him up and destroyed the pains of death, since it was impossible for him to be held in its power.

isv@Acts:2:25 @ For David says about him, ‘I always see the Lord in front of me,for he is at my right handso that I cannot be shaken.

isv@Acts:2:26 @ That is why my heart is gladand my tongue rejoices,yes, even my body still rests securely in hope.

isv@Acts:2:29 @ “Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and that his tomb is among us to this day.

isv@Acts:2:30 @ Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him with an oath to put one of his descendants on his throne,

isv@Acts:2:32 @ It was this very Jesus whom God raised, and of that we are all witnesses.

isv@Acts:2:33 @ He has been exalted to the right hand of God, has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, and has poured out what you are seeing and hearing.

isv@Acts:2:34 @ For David did not go up to heaven, but he said, ‘The Lord said to my Lord,“Sit at my right hand,

isv@Acts:2:36 @ Therefore, let the entire house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”

isv@Acts:2:37 @ When they heard this, they were pierced to the heart. They asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”

isv@Acts:2:40 @ With many more words he continued to testify and to plead with them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt generation!”

isv@Acts:2:41 @ So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 persons were added to them.

isv@Acts:2:46 @ They had a single purpose and went to the temple every day. They ate at each other's homes and shared their food with glad and humble hearts.

isv@Acts:3:1 @ Peter and John were going up to the temple for the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon.

isv@Acts:3:2 @ Now a man who had been crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at what was called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from those who were going into the temple.

isv@Acts:3:3 @ When he saw that Peter and John were about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him something.

isv@Acts:3:4 @ Peter, along with John, looked him straight in the eye and said, “Look at us!”

isv@Acts:3:5 @ So the man watched them closely, expecting to get something from them.

isv@Acts:3:6 @ However, Peter said, “I don't have any silver or gold, but I'll give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, walk!”

isv@Acts:3:7 @ Then Peter took hold of his right hand and began to help him up. Immediately his feet and ankles became strong,

isv@Acts:3:10 @ they knew that he was the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

isv@Acts:3:11 @ While he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people came running together to them in what was called Solomon's Colonnade. They were dumbfounded.

isv@Acts:3:12 @ When Peter saw this, he said to the people: “Fellow Israelites, why are you wondering about this, and why are you staring at us as if by our own power or godliness we made him walk?

isv@Acts:3:13 @ The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—the God of our ancestors—has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and rejected in the presence of Pilate, even though he had decided to let him go.

isv@Acts:3:15 @ and you killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses to that.

isv@Acts:3:16 @ It is his name, that is, by the faith of his name, that has healed this man whom you see and know. Yes, the faith that comes through him has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you.

isv@Acts:3:17 @ “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance like your leaders.

isv@Acts:3:18 @ This is how God fulfilled what he had predicted through the voice of all the prophets—that his Christ would suffer.

isv@Acts:3:20 @ so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord and so that he may send you Jesus, the Christ whom he appointed long ago.

isv@Acts:3:21 @ Heaven must receive him until the time of universal restoration that God announced long ago through the voice of his holy prophets.

isv@Acts:3:23 @ Any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

isv@Acts:3:25 @ You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendant all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

isv@Acts:4:2 @ They were greatly disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people and declaring that in the case of Jesus there had been a resurrection from the dead.

isv@Acts:4:7 @ They made them stand in front of them and began asking, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”

isv@Acts:4:10 @ you and all the people of Israel must understand that this man stands healthy before you because of the name of Jesus from Nazareth, whom you crucified but God raised from the dead.

isv@Acts:4:11 @ He is ‘the stone that was rejected by you builders,which has become the cornerstone.’

isv@Acts:4:12 @ There is no salvation by anyone else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”

isv@Acts:4:13 @ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and found out that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and realized that they had been with Jesus.

isv@Acts:4:15 @ So they ordered them to leave the Council and began to discuss the matter among themselves.

isv@Acts:4:16 @ They said, “What should we do with these men? For it's obvious to everybody living in Jerusalem that an unmistakable sign has been done by them, and we can't deny it.

isv@Acts:4:18 @ So they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

isv@Acts:4:19 @ But Peter and John answered them, “You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God,

isv@Acts:4:20 @ for we cannot stop talking about what we have seen and heard.”

isv@Acts:4:21 @ So they threatened them even more and then let them go. They couldn't find any way to punish them, because all the people continued to praise God for what had happened.

isv@Acts:4:27 @ “For in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate actually met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

isv@Acts:4:28 @ to do all that your hand and your will had predetermined to take place.

isv@Acts:4:29 @ Lord, pay attention to their threats now, and allow your servants to speak your word with all boldness

isv@Acts:4:33 @ With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was on them all.

isv@Acts:4:35 @ and lay it at the apostles’ feet. Then it was distributed to anyone who needed it.

isv@Acts:4:36 @ Now Joseph, a Levite and a native of Cyprus, who was named Barnabas by the apostles (the name means “a son of encouragement”),

isv@Acts:4:37 @ sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

isv@Acts:5:2 @ With his wife's full knowledge he kept back some of the money for himself and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

isv@Acts:5:3 @ Peter asked, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money you got for the land?

isv@Acts:5:4 @ As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have conceived such a thing in your heart? You did not lie to men but to God!”

isv@Acts:5:5 @ When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear seized everyone who heard about it.

isv@Acts:5:7 @ After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

isv@Acts:5:8 @ So Peter asked her, “Tell me, did you sell the land for that price?”She answered, “Yes, that was the price.”

isv@Acts:5:9 @ Then Peter said to her, “How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you outside as well.”

isv@Acts:5:10 @ She instantly fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came in, they found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her next to her husband.

isv@Acts:5:11 @ And great fear seized the whole church and everyone else who heard about this.

isv@Acts:5:15 @ As a result, people kept carrying their sick into the streets and placing them on stretchers and cots so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he went by.

isv@Acts:5:19 @ But at night the angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and led them out. He told them,

isv@Acts:5:21 @ After they heard this, they went into the temple at daybreak and began to teach. The high priest and those who were with him arrived, called the Council and all the elders of Israel together, and sent word to the prison to have the men brought in.

isv@Acts:5:23 @ “We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

isv@Acts:5:24 @ When the commander of the temple guards and the high priests heard these words, they were utterly at a loss as to what could have happened to them.

isv@Acts:5:26 @ So the commander of the temple guards went with his men to bring them back without force, because they were afraid of being stoned to death by the people.

isv@Acts:5:29 @ But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

isv@Acts:5:35 @ Then he said to them, “Fellow Israelites, consider carefully what you propose to do to these men.

isv@Acts:5:36 @ For in days gone by Theudas appeared, claiming that he was important, and about 400 men joined him. He was killed, and all his followers were dispersed and disappeared.

isv@Acts:5:37 @ After that man, at the time of the census, Judas the Galilean appeared and got people to follow him. He, too, died, and all his followers were scattered.

isv@Acts:5:39 @ However, if it is from God, you won't be able to stop them, and you may even discover that you are fighting against God!” So they were convinced by him.

isv@Acts:5:40 @ After calling in the apostles and beating them, they ordered them to stop speaking in the name of Jesus and let them go.

isv@Acts:5:42 @ Every day in the temple and from house to house they kept teaching and proclaiming that Jesus is the Christ.

isv@Acts:6:1 @ In those days, as the number of the disciples was growing larger and larger, a complaint was made by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

isv@Acts:6:3 @ Therefore, brothers, appoint seven men among you who have a good reputation, who are full of the Spirit and wisdom, and we will put them in charge of this work.

isv@Acts:6:8 @ Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

isv@Acts:6:9 @ But some men who belonged to the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), as well as some Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and began to debate with Stephen.

isv@Acts:6:12 @ They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes. Then they rushed at him, grabbed him, and brought him before the Council.

isv@Acts:6:14 @ For we have heard him say that this Jesus from Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

isv@Acts:6:15 @ Then all who were seated in the Council glared at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

isv@Acts:7:2 @ Stephen replied, “Listen, brothers and fathers! The glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia before he settled in Haran.

isv@Acts:7:3 @ He said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives and go to the land I will show you.’

isv@Acts:7:4 @ So he left the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. Then after the death of his father, God had him move to this country where you now live.

isv@Acts:7:6 @ This is what God promised: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and its people would enslave them and oppress them for 400 years.

isv@Acts:7:7 @ ‘But I will punish the nation they serve,’ said God, ‘and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.’

isv@Acts:7:8 @ Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. Then Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

isv@Acts:7:9 @ “The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him as a slave into Egypt. However, God was with him

isv@Acts:7:11 @ “But a famine spread throughout Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our ancestors couldn't find any food.

isv@Acts:7:12 @ But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors on their first visit.

isv@Acts:7:14 @ Then Joseph sent word and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him—seventy-five persons in all.

isv@Acts:7:16 @ They were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

isv@Acts:7:17 @ “Now as the time approached for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people multiplied and grew more numerous in Egypt,

isv@Acts:7:19 @ By shrewdly scheming against our people, he oppressed our ancestors and forced them to expose their infants so that they wouldn't live.

isv@Acts:7:20 @ “At this time Moses was born. He was beautiful in the sight of God, and for three months he was cared for in his father's house.

isv@Acts:7:22 @ So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became a great man in speech and action.

isv@Acts:7:24 @ Because he saw one of them being mistreated, he defended and avenged the man who was being mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.

isv@Acts:7:25 @ He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.

isv@Acts:7:29 @ At this statement Moses fled and lived as a foreigner in the land of Midian. There he had two sons.

isv@Acts:7:31 @ When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to look at it, the voice of the Lord said,

isv@Acts:7:36 @ It was he who led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

isv@Acts:7:38 @ This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our ancestors. He received living truths to give to us,

isv@Acts:7:40 @ They said to Aaron, ‘Make gods for us who will lead us. This Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt—we don't know what happened to him!’

isv@Acts:7:44 @ “Our ancestors had the Tent of Testimony in the wilderness constructed, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

isv@Acts:7:45 @ Our ancestors brought it here with Joshua when they replaced the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, and it was here until the time of David.

isv@Acts:7:49 @ “‘Heaven is my throne,and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house can you build for me,’ declares the Lord, “or what place is there in which I can rest?

isv@Acts:7:50 @ It was my hand that made all these things, wasn't it?’”

isv@Acts:7:54 @ While they were listening to these things, they became more and more furious and began to grind their teeth at him.

isv@Acts:7:55 @ But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

isv@Acts:7:56 @ He said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

isv@Acts:7:57 @ But they raised a loud shout, held their ears shut, and together they all rushed at him.

isv@Acts:7:58 @ They threw him out of the city and began to stone him to death. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.

isv@Acts:8:1 @ Now Saul heartily approved of putting him to death. That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all of them, except for the apostles, were scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria.

isv@Acts:8:4 @ Now those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the word.

isv@Acts:8:6 @ The crowds, hearing his message and seeing the signs that he was doing, paid close attention to what was said by Philip.

isv@Acts:8:8 @ As a result, there was great rejoicing in that city.

isv@Acts:8:9 @ Now in that city there was a man named Simon. He was practicing occult arts and thrilling the people of Samaria, claiming to be a great man.

isv@Acts:8:10 @ Everyone from the least to the greatest paid close attention to him, saying, “This man is the power of God, which is called great!”

isv@Acts:8:11 @ They paid careful attention to him because he had thrilled them for a long time with his occultic performances.

isv@Acts:8:13 @ Even Simon believed, and after he was baptized he became devoted to Philip. He was amazed to see the signs and great miracles that were happening.

isv@Acts:8:14 @ Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

isv@Acts:8:18 @ Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money

isv@Acts:8:19 @ and said, “Give me this power too, so that when I lay my hands on someone he will receive the Holy Spirit.”

isv@Acts:8:21 @ You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart isn't right before God.

isv@Acts:8:22 @ So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, this thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

isv@Acts:8:23 @ For I see that you're turning into bitter poison and that you’re being chained by wickedness!”

isv@Acts:8:24 @ Simon answered, “Both of you pray to the Lord for me that none of the things you have said will happen to me.”

isv@Acts:8:26 @ Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south by the road that leads from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert road.”

isv@Acts:8:28 @ and was returning home. He was seated in his chariot, reading the prophet Isaiah.

isv@Acts:8:29 @ The Spirit said to Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay close to it.”

isv@Acts:8:30 @ So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah out loud.He asked, “Do you understand what you're reading?”

isv@Acts:8:33 @ In his humiliation, justice was denied him.Who can describe his generation?For his life is taken away from the earth.”

isv@Acts:8:36 @ As they were going along the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look, there's some water. What keeps me from being baptized?”

isv@Acts:8:38 @ So he ordered the chariot to stop, and Philip and the eunuch both went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

isv@Acts:8:39 @ When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch went on his way rejoicing and did not see Philip again.

isv@Acts:8:40 @ But Philip found himself at Azotus. As he was passing through the region, he kept proclaiming the good news in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

isv@Acts:9:1 @ Now Saul, still breathing threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

isv@Acts:9:2 @ and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

isv@Acts:9:6 @ But get up and go into the city, and it will be told you what you are to do.”

isv@Acts:9:9 @ For three days he couldn't see, and he didn't eat or drink anything.

isv@Acts:9:11 @ The Lord said to him,“Get up, go to the street called Straight, and in the home of Judas look for a man from Tarsus named Saul. At this very moment he is praying.

isv@Acts:9:17 @ So Ananias left and went to that house. He laid his hands on Saul and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were traveling, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

isv@Acts:9:18 @ All at once something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

isv@Acts:9:20 @ He immediately started to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “This is the Son of God.”

isv@Acts:9:22 @ But Saul grew more and more powerful and continued to confound the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this man was the Christ.

isv@Acts:9:24 @ but their plot became known to Saul. They were even watching the gates day and night to murder him,

isv@Acts:9:34 @ Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ is healing you. Get up and put away your bed!” At once he got up,

isv@Acts:9:37 @ At that time she got sick and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upstairs room.

isv@Acts:9:38 @ As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples heard that Peter was there and sent two men to him and begged him, “Come to us without delay!”

isv@Acts:9:39 @ So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him upstairs. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him all the shirts and coats Dorcas made while she was still with them.

isv@Acts:9:40 @ But Peter made them all go outside. After he knelt down and prayed, he turned to the body and said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

isv@Acts:9:43 @ Meanwhile, Peter stayed in Joppa for several days with Simon, a leatherworker.

isv@Acts:10:1 @ Now in Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment.

isv@Acts:10:4 @ He stared at the angel in terror and asked, “What is it, Lord?”He answered him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial before God.

isv@Acts:10:6 @ He is a guest of Simon, a leatherworker, whose house is by the sea.”

isv@Acts:10:10 @ He became very hungry and wanted to eat, and while the food was being prepared, he fell into a trance

isv@Acts:10:13 @ Then a voice told him,“Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it.”

isv@Acts:10:14 @ But Peter said, “Absolutely not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean!”

isv@Acts:10:15 @ Again a voice came to him a second time,“You must stop calling unclean what God has made clean.”

isv@Acts:10:17 @ While Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon's house and went to the gate.

isv@Acts:10:20 @ Get up, go downstairs, and don't hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.”

isv@Acts:10:22 @ The men replied, “Cornelius, a centurion and an upright and God-fearing man who is respected by the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his home to hear what you have to say.”

isv@Acts:10:24 @ The next day they arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called his relatives and close friends together.

isv@Acts:10:25 @ When Peter was about to go in, Cornelius met him, bowed down at his feet, and began to worship him.

isv@Acts:10:27 @ As Peter talked with him, he went in and found that many people had gathered.

isv@Acts:10:28 @ He said to them, “You understand how wrong it is for a Jew to associate or visit with a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should stop calling anyone common or unclean,

isv@Acts:10:29 @ and that is why I didn't hesitate when I was sent for. Now may I ask why you sent for me?”

isv@Acts:10:30 @ Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this very hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my home. All at once a man in radiant clothes stood in front of me

isv@Acts:10:32 @ So send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, to come to you. He is a guest in the home of Simon, a leatherworker, by the sea.’

isv@Acts:10:33 @ So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say.”

isv@Acts:10:34 @ Then Peter opened his mouth and said, “Now I understand that God shows no partiality.

isv@Acts:10:35 @ Indeed, the person who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation.

isv@Acts:10:37 @ You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached.

isv@Acts:10:41 @ not to all the people, but to us who were chosen by God to be witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

isv@Acts:10:42 @ He also ordered us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this is the one ordained by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.

isv@Acts:10:43 @ To him all the prophets testify that everyone who believes in him receives the forgiveness of sins through his name.”

isv@Acts:10:45 @ Then the circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles, too.

isv@Acts:10:47 @ “No one can stop us from using water to baptize these people who have received the Holy Spirit in the same way that we did, can he?”

isv@Acts:11:1 @ Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God.

isv@Acts:11:3 @ They said, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”

isv@Acts:11:4 @ Then Peter began to explain to them point by point what had happened. He said,

isv@Acts:11:7 @ I also heard a voice telling me,‘Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it.’

isv@Acts:11:9 @ Then the voice from heaven answered a second time,‘You must stop calling common what God has made clean!’

isv@Acts:11:11 @ “At that very moment three men arrived at the house where we were staying. They had been sent to me from Caesarea.

isv@Acts:11:12 @ The Spirit told me to go with them and not to treat them differently. These six brothers went with me, too, and we went into the man's house.

isv@Acts:11:15 @ “When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he had on us at the beginning.

isv@Acts:11:16 @ Then I remembered the word of the Lord—how he had said,‘John baptized withwater, but you will be baptized withthe Holy Spirit.’

isv@Acts:11:17 @ Now if God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to try to stop God?”

isv@Acts:11:18 @ When they heard this, they quieted down, and praised God, saying, “So God has given even the Gentiles the repentance that leads to life.”

isv@Acts:11:19 @ Now the people who were scattered by the persecution that started because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.

isv@Acts:11:23 @ When he arrived, he rejoiced to see what the grace of God had done, and with a hearty determination he continuously encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord.

isv@Acts:11:26 @ When he found him, he brought him to Antioch, and for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught a large crowd. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

isv@Acts:11:27 @ At that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch.

isv@Acts:11:28 @ One of them named Agabus got up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine all over the world. This happened during the reign of Claudius.

isv@Acts:12:1 @ About that time, Herod arrested some people who belonged to the church and mistreated them.

isv@Acts:12:6 @ That very night, before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, and guards in front of the door were watching the prisoners.

isv@Acts:12:8 @ Then the angel said to him, “Tuck in your shirt and put on your sandals!” He did this. Then the angel told him, “Put on your coat and follow me!”

isv@Acts:12:9 @ So he went out and began to follow him, not realizing that what was being done by the angel was real; he thought he was seeing a vision.

isv@Acts:12:10 @ They passed the first guard, then the second, and came to the iron gate that led into the city. It opened by itself for them, and they went outside and proceeded one block when the angel suddenly left him.

isv@Acts:12:11 @ Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I'm sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hands of Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting!”

isv@Acts:12:12 @ When he realized what had happened, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where a large number of people had gathered and were praying.

isv@Acts:12:13 @ When he knocked at the outer gate, a servant-girl named Rhoda came to answer it.

isv@Acts:12:14 @ On recognizing Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed that she didn't open the gate but ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the gate.

isv@Acts:12:15 @ They said to her, “You're out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. Then they said, “It's his angel.”

isv@Acts:12:16 @ Meanwhile, Peter kept on knocking and knocking. When they opened the gate, they saw him and were amazed.

isv@Acts:12:18 @ When morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

isv@Acts:12:21 @ Therefore, on a day that was set, Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the royal seat, and made a speech to them.

isv@Acts:12:23 @ Immediately the angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

isv@Acts:13:1 @ Now Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius from Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch.

isv@Acts:13:7 @ He was associated with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. He sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God.

isv@Acts:13:8 @ But Elymas the occult practitioner (that is the meaning of his name) continued to oppose them and tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

isv@Acts:13:10 @ and said, “You are full of every form of deception and trickery, you son of the devil, you enemy of all that is right! You will never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord, will you?

isv@Acts:13:11 @ The hand of the Lord is against you now, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a while!” At that moment a dark mist came over him, and he went around looking for someone to lead him by the hand.

isv@Acts:13:12 @ When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was astonished at the Lord's teaching.

isv@Acts:13:14 @ They left Perga and arrived in Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

isv@Acts:13:17 @ The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made them a great people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm he led them out of it.

isv@Acts:13:19 @ he destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan. Then he gave them their land as an inheritance

isv@Acts:13:20 @ for about 450 years. After that he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel.

isv@Acts:13:22 @ But he removed Saul and made David their king, about whom he testified, ‘I have found that David, the son of Jesse, is a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my wishes.’

isv@Acts:13:23 @ It was from this man's descendants that God, as he promised, brought to Israel a Savior, who is Jesus.

isv@Acts:13:26 @ “My brothers, descendants of Abraham's family, and those among you who fear God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

isv@Acts:13:27 @ For the people who live in Jerusalem and their leaders, not knowing who he was, condemned him and fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

isv@Acts:13:28 @ Although they found no reason to sentence him to death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

isv@Acts:13:29 @ When they had finished doing everything that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.

isv@Acts:13:32 @ We are telling you the good news: What God promised our ancestors

isv@Acts:13:33 @ he has fulfilled for us, their descendants, by raising Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.’

isv@Acts:13:36 @ For David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died and was laid to rest with his ancestors, and so he experienced decay.

isv@Acts:13:38 @ “Therefore, brothers, you must understand that through him the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

isv@Acts:13:39 @ and that everyone who believes in him is justified and freed from everything that kept you from being justified by the law of Moses.

isv@Acts:13:40 @ So be careful that what the prophets said does not happen to you:

isv@Acts:13:41 @ ‘Look, you mockers!Be amazed and die! For I am doing a work in your days, a work that you would not believeeven if someone told you!’”

isv@Acts:13:42 @ As Paul and Barnabas were leaving, the people kept urging them to tell them the same things the next Sabbath.

isv@Acts:13:44 @ The next Sabbath almost the whole town gathered to hear the word of the Lord.

isv@Acts:13:45 @ But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to object to the statements made by Paul and even to abuse him.

isv@Acts:13:47 @ For that is what the Lord ordered us to do: ‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles to be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.’”

isv@Acts:14:1 @ In Iconium they went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

isv@Acts:14:5 @ Now when an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, along with their authorities, to mistreat and stone them,

isv@Acts:14:9 @ He was listening to Paul as he spoke. Paul watched him closely, and when he saw that he had faith to be healed,

isv@Acts:14:11 @ When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have become like men and have come down to us!”

isv@Acts:14:13 @ The priest of the temple of Zeus, which was just outside the city, brought bulls and garlands to the gates. He and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices.

isv@Acts:14:15 @ “Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like your own. We are telling you the good news to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

isv@Acts:14:16 @ In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,

isv@Acts:14:21 @ As they were proclaiming the good news in that city, they discipled a large number of people. Then they went back to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

isv@Acts:14:25 @ They spoke the word in Perga and went down to Attalia.

isv@Acts:14:27 @ When they arrived, they called the church together and told them everything that God had done with them and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

isv@Acts:15:3 @ They were sent on their way by the church, and as they were going through Phoenecia and Samaria they told of the conversion of the Gentiles and brought great joy to all the brothers.

isv@Acts:15:4 @ When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done through them.

isv@Acts:15:6 @ So the apostles and the elders met to consider this statement.

isv@Acts:15:7 @ After a lengthy debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose me to be the one among you through whom the Gentiles would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

isv@Acts:15:10 @ So why do you test God by putting on the disciples’ neck a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we could carry?

isv@Acts:15:11 @ We certainly believe that it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that we are saved, just as they are.”

isv@Acts:15:12 @ The whole crowd was silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul tell about all the signs and wonders that God had done through them among the Gentiles.

isv@Acts:15:17 @ so that the rest of the people may search for the Lord, including all the Gentiles who are called by my name, declares the Lord. He is the one who has been doing these things

isv@Acts:15:18 @ that have always been known.’

isv@Acts:15:19 @ Therefore, I have decided that we should not trouble these Gentiles who are turning to God.

isv@Acts:15:21 @ After all, Moses has had people to proclaim him in every city for generations, and on every Sabbath he is read aloud in the synagogues.”

isv@Acts:15:24 @ We have heard that some men, coming from us without instructions from us, have said things to trouble you and have unsettled your minds.

isv@Acts:15:30 @ So the men were sent on their way and arrived in Antioch. They gathered the congregation together and delivered the letter.

isv@Acts:15:39 @ The disagreement was so sharp that they parted ways. Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus,

isv@Acts:16:1 @ He also went to Derbe and Lystra. Here there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, although his father was a Greek.

isv@Acts:16:3 @ Paul wanted this man to go with him, so he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who lived in those places, for everyone knew that his father was a Greek.

isv@Acts:16:6 @ Then they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia because they had been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia.

isv@Acts:16:10 @ As soon as he had seen the vision, we immediately looked for a way to go to Macedonia, for we were convinced that God had called us to tell them the good news.

isv@Acts:16:13 @ On the Sabbath day we went out of the gate and along the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and began talking to the women who had gathered there.

isv@Acts:16:14 @ A woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods from the city of Thyatira, was listening to us. She was a worshiper of God, and the Lord opened her heart to listen carefully to what was being said by Paul.

isv@Acts:16:15 @ When she and her family were baptized, she urged us, “If you are convinced that I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she continued to insist that we do so.

isv@Acts:16:16 @ Once, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of fortune-telling and who had brought her owners a great deal of money by predicting the future.

isv@Acts:16:17 @ She would follow Paul and us and shout, “These men are servants of the Most High God and are proclaiming to you a way of salvation!”

isv@Acts:16:18 @ She kept doing this for many days until Paul became annoyed, turned to the spirit, and said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out that very moment.

isv@Acts:16:19 @ When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the public square.

isv@Acts:16:20 @ They brought them before the magistrates and said, “These men are stirring up a lot of trouble in our city. They are Jews

isv@Acts:16:21 @ and are advocating customs that we are not allowed to accept or practice as Romans.”

isv@Acts:16:22 @ The crowd joined in the attack against them. Then the magistrates had them stripped of their clothes and ordered them beaten with sticks.

isv@Acts:16:23 @ After giving them a severe beating, they threw them in jail and ordered the jailer to keep them under tight security.

isv@Acts:16:26 @ Suddenly, there was an earthquake so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken. All the doors immediately flew open, and everyone's chains were unfastened.

isv@Acts:16:30 @ Then he took them outside and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

isv@Acts:16:33 @ At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds. Then he and his entire family were baptized immediately.

isv@Acts:16:35 @ When day came, the magistrates sent guards and said, “Release those men.”

isv@Acts:16:36 @ The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent word to release you. So come out now and go in peace.”

isv@Acts:16:37 @ But Paul told them, “They have had us beaten publicly without a trial and have thrown us into jail, even though we are Roman citizens. Now are they going to throw us out secretly? Certainly not! Have them come and escort us out.”

isv@Acts:16:38 @ The guards reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens.

isv@Acts:17:2 @ As usual, Paul went in and on three Sabbaths discussed the Scriptures with them.

isv@Acts:17:3 @ He explained and showed them that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. He said, “This very Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Christ.”

isv@Acts:17:5 @ But the Jews became jealous, and they took some contemptible characters who used to hang out in the public square, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. They attacked Jason's home and searched it for Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the people.

isv@Acts:17:7 @ and Jason has welcomed them as his guests. All of them oppose the emperor's decrees by saying that there is another king—Jesus!”

isv@Acts:17:10 @ That night the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

isv@Acts:17:13 @ But when the Jews in Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul also in Berea, they went there to upset and incite the crowds.

isv@Acts:17:14 @ Then the brothers immediately sent Paul away to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed there.

isv@Acts:17:15 @ The men who escorted Paul took him all the way to Athens and, after receiving instructions to have Silas and Timothy join him as soon as possible, they left.

isv@Acts:17:16 @ While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred to its depths to see the city full of idols.

isv@Acts:17:18 @ Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some asked, “What is this blabbermouth trying to say?” while others said, “He seems to be preaching about foreign gods.” This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

isv@Acts:17:19 @ Then they took him, brought him before the Areopagus, and asked, “May we know what this new teaching of yours is?

isv@Acts:17:20 @ It sounds rather strange to our ears, and we would like to know what it means.”

isv@Acts:17:21 @ Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their time in nothing else than repeating or listening to the latest ideas.

isv@Acts:17:22 @ So Paul stood up in front of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every way.

isv@Acts:17:23 @ For as I was walking around and looking closely at the objects you worship, I even found an altar with this written on it: ‘To an unknown god.’ So I am telling you about the unknown object you worship.

isv@Acts:17:25 @ and he isn't served by hands as if he needed anything. He himself gives everyone life, breath, and everything.

isv@Acts:17:26 @ From one man he made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth, fixing the seasons of the year and the boundaries they live in,

isv@Acts:17:27 @ so that they might look for God, somehow reach for him, and find him. Of course, he is never far from any one of us.

isv@Acts:17:29 @ So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by human imagination and skill.

isv@Acts:18:1 @ After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

isv@Acts:18:2 @ There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,

isv@Acts:18:4 @ Every Sabbath he would argue in the synagogue and try to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

isv@Acts:18:5 @ But when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself entirely to the word as he solemnly assured the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

isv@Acts:18:7 @ Then he left that place and went to the home of a man named Titius Justus, who worshiped God and whose house was next door to the synagogue.

isv@Acts:18:12 @ While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews united in an attack on Paul and brought him before the judge's seat.

isv@Acts:18:13 @ They said, “This man is persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the law.”

isv@Acts:18:15 @ But since it is a question about words, names, and your own law, you will have to take care of that yourselves. I refuse to be a judge in these matters.”

isv@Acts:18:16 @ So he drove them away from the judge's seat.

isv@Acts:18:17 @ Then all of them took Sosthenes, the synagogue leader, and began beating him in front of the judge's seat. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.

isv@Acts:18:23 @ After spending some time there, he departed and went from place to place through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

isv@Acts:18:24 @ Meanwhile, a Jew named Apollos arrived in Ephesus. He was a native of Alexandria and an eloquent man, one powerful in the Scriptures.

isv@Acts:18:25 @ He had been instructed in the Lord's way, and with spiritual fervor he kept speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only about John's baptism.

isv@Acts:18:26 @ He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained God's way to him more accurately.

isv@Acts:18:27 @ When he wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples to welcome him. On his arrival he greatly helped those who through grace had believed.

isv@Acts:18:28 @ He successfully refuted the Jews in public and proved by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

isv@Acts:19:1 @ It was while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul passed through the inland districts and came to Ephesus. He found a few disciples there

isv@Acts:19:2 @ and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”They answered him, “No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

isv@Acts:19:3 @ He then asked, “Then into what were you baptized?”They answered, “Into John's baptism.”

isv@Acts:19:4 @ Then Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

isv@Acts:19:10 @ This went on for two years, so that all who lived in Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.

isv@Acts:19:12 @ When the handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched his skin were taken to the sick, their diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

isv@Acts:19:13 @ Then some Jews who went around trying to drive out demons attempted to use the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits, saying, “I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches!”

isv@Acts:19:16 @ Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them, got the better of them, and so violently overpowered all of them that they fled out of the house naked and bruised.

isv@Acts:19:19 @ Moreover, many people who had practiced occult arts gathered their books and burned them in front of everybody. They estimated the price of them and found they were worth 50,000 silver coins.

isv@Acts:19:20 @ In that way the word of the Lord kept spreading and triumphing.

isv@Acts:19:23 @ Now just about that time a great commotion broke out concerning the Way.

isv@Acts:19:25 @ He called a meeting of these men and others who were engaged in similar trades and said, “Men, you well know that we get a good income from this business.

isv@Acts:19:26 @ You also see and hear that, not only in Ephesus, but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has won over and taken away a large crowd by telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.

isv@Acts:19:27 @ There is a danger not only that our business will lose its reputation but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be brought into contempt and that she will be robbed of her majesty that brought all Asia and the world to worship her.”

isv@Acts:19:28 @ When they heard this, they became furious and began to shout, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

isv@Acts:19:29 @ The city was filled with confusion, and the people rushed into the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's fellow travelers from Macedonia.

isv@Acts:19:31 @ Even some officials of the province of Asia who were his friends sent him a message urging him not to risk his life in the theater.

isv@Acts:19:34 @ But when they found out that he was a Jew, they all started to shout in unison for about two hours, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

isv@Acts:19:35 @ When the city recorder had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who in the world doesn't know that this city of Ephesus is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell down from heaven?

isv@Acts:20:4 @ He was accompanied by Sopater (the son of Pyrrhus) from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia.

isv@Acts:20:6 @ After the days of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days.

isv@Acts:20:11 @ Then he went back upstairs, broke the bread, and ate. He talked with them for a long time, until dawn, and then left.

isv@Acts:20:12 @ Then they took the boy away alive and were greatly relieved.

isv@Acts:20:15 @ We sailed from there and on the following day arrived off Chios. The next day we crossed over to Samos and stayed at Trogyllium. The day after that we came to Miletus.

isv@Acts:20:16 @ Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in Asia, as he was in a hurry to get to Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost, if that was possible.

isv@Acts:20:19 @ I served the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.

isv@Acts:20:20 @ I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.

isv@Acts:20:22 @ “And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

isv@Acts:20:23 @ except that in town after town the Holy Spirit assures me that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me.

isv@Acts:20:24 @ But I don't place any value on my life, if only I can finish my race and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.

isv@Acts:20:25 @ “Now I know that none of you among whom I traveled preaching the kingdom will ever see my face again.

isv@Acts:20:26 @ I therefore declare to you today that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you,

isv@Acts:20:28 @ Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.

isv@Acts:20:29 @ I know that when I'm gone savage wolves will come among you and not spare the flock.

isv@Acts:20:31 @ So be alert! Remember that for three years, night and day, I never stopped warning each of you with tears.

isv@Acts:20:34 @ You yourselves know that I worked with my own hands to support myself and those who were with me.

isv@Acts:20:35 @ In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said,‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

isv@Acts:20:38 @ They were especially sorrowful because of what he had said—that they would never see his face again. Then they took him to the ship.

isv@Acts:21:1 @ When we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed straight to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

isv@Acts:21:3 @ We came in sight of Cyprus, and leaving it on our left we sailed on to Syria and landed at Tyre because the ship was to unload its cargo there.

isv@Acts:21:7 @ On finishing the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, greeted the brothers, and stayed with them for one day.

isv@Acts:21:13 @ Then Paul replied, “What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I'm ready not only to be tied up in Jerusalem but even to die for the name of the Lord Jesus!”

isv@Acts:21:19 @ After greeting them, Paul related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

isv@Acts:21:21 @ But they have been told about you—that you teach all the Jews living among the Gentiles to forsake the Law of Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children or observe the customs.

isv@Acts:21:22 @ What is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.

isv@Acts:21:23 @ So do what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow.

isv@Acts:21:24 @ Take these men, go through the purification ceremony with them, and pay the expenses to shave their heads. Then everyone will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself constantly observe and guard the law.

isv@Acts:21:25 @ As for the Gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should keep away from food that has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”

isv@Acts:21:26 @ Then Paul took the men and the next day purified himself with them. Then he went into the temple to announce the time when the days of purification would be over and when the sacrifice would be offered for each of them.

isv@Acts:21:28 @ yelling, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere to turn against our people, the law, and this place. More than that, he has even brought Greeks into the temple and desecrated this holy place.”

isv@Acts:21:29 @ For they had earlier seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him and had supposed that Paul had taken him into the temple.

isv@Acts:21:30 @ The whole city was in chaos, and the people rushed together. They grabbed Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the doors were shut.

isv@Acts:21:31 @ They were trying to kill him when a report reached the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

isv@Acts:21:32 @ Immediately he took some soldiers and officers and ran down to them. When they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

isv@Acts:21:33 @ Then the tribune came up, grabbed Paul, and ordered him to be tied up with two chains. He then asked who Paul was and what he had done.

isv@Acts:21:34 @ Some of the crowd shouted this and some that. Since he couldn't learn the facts because of the confusion, he ordered him to be taken into the barracks.

isv@Acts:22:1 @ “Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense that I am now making before you.”

isv@Acts:22:3 @ “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia but raised in this city and educated at the feet of Gamaliel in the strict ways of our ancestral law. I am as zealous for God as all of you are today.

isv@Acts:22:4 @ I persecuted this Way even to the death and kept tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

isv@Acts:22:10 @ “Then I asked, ‘What am I to do, Lord?’ The Lord told me,‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told everything you are destined to do.’

isv@Acts:22:13 @ came to me. He stood beside me and said, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ At that moment I could see him.

isv@Acts:22:15 @ because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

isv@Acts:22:16 @ What are you waiting for now? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away as you call on his name.’

isv@Acts:22:18 @ and saw the Lord saying to me,‘Hurry up and get out of Jerusalem at once, because the peoplewon't accept your testimony about me.’

isv@Acts:22:19 @ I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I kept imprisoning and beating those who believe in you.

isv@Acts:22:20 @ Even when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing there approving it and guarding the coats of those who were killing him.’

isv@Acts:22:23 @ While they were yelling, tossing their coats around, and throwing dirt into the air,

isv@Acts:22:24 @ the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to question him with a beating in order to find out why they were yelling at him like this.

isv@Acts:22:26 @ When the centurion heard this, he went to the tribune and said to him, “What are you doing? This man is a Roman citizen!”

isv@Acts:22:29 @ Immediately those who were about to examine him stepped back, and the tribune was afraid when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had tied him up.

isv@Acts:22:30 @ The next day, since the Tribune wanted to find out exactly what Paul was being accused of by the Jews, he released him and ordered the high priests and the entire Council to meet. Then he brought Paul down and had him stand before them.

isv@Acts:23:1 @ Paul looked straight at the Council and said, “Brothers, with a clear conscience I have done my duty before God up to this very day.”

isv@Acts:23:3 @ At this Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! How can you sit there and judge me according to the law and yet in violation of the law order me to be struck?”

isv@Acts:23:5 @ Paul answered, “I didn't realize, brothers, that he is the high priest. After all, it is written, ‘You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.’”

isv@Acts:23:6 @ When Paul saw that some of them were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he shouted in the Council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee and a descendant of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead.”

isv@Acts:23:7 @ After he said that, an angry quarrel broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

isv@Acts:23:8 @ For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection and that there is no such thing as an angel or spirit, but the Pharisees believe in all those things.

isv@Acts:23:9 @ There was a great deal of shouting until some of the scribes who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and argued forcefully, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

isv@Acts:23:10 @ The quarrel was becoming violent, and the tribune was afraid that they would tear Paul to pieces. So he ordered the soldiers to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

isv@Acts:23:11 @ That night the Lord stood near him and said,“Have courage! For just as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, you must testify in Rome, too.”

isv@Acts:23:12 @ In the morning, the Jews formed a conspiracy and took an oath not to eat or drink anything before they had killed Paul.

isv@Acts:23:14 @ They went to the high priests and elders and said, “We have taken a solemn oath not to taste any food before we have killed Paul.

isv@Acts:23:15 @ Now then, you and the Council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you on the pretext that you want to look into his case more carefully, but before he arrives we'll be ready to kill him.”

isv@Acts:23:19 @ The tribune took him by the hand, stepped aside to be alone with him, and asked, “What have you got to tell me?”

isv@Acts:23:21 @ Don't believe them, because more than forty of them are planning to ambush him. They have taken an oath not to eat or drink before they have killed him. They are ready now, just waiting for your consent.”

isv@Acts:23:22 @ The tribune dismissed the young man and ordered him not to tell anyone that he had notified him.

isv@Acts:23:23 @ Then he summoned two of the centurions and said, “Get 200 soldiers ready to leave for Caesarea at nine o'clock tonight, along with seventy mounted soldiers and 200 soldiers with spears.

isv@Acts:23:27 @ This man had been seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I went with the guard and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen.

isv@Acts:23:29 @ I found that, although he was charged with questions about their law, there was no charge against him deserving death or imprisonment.

isv@Acts:23:30 @ Since a plot against the man has been reported to me, I am at once sending him to you and have also ordered his accusers to present their charges against him before you.”

isv@Acts:23:31 @ So the soldiers, in keeping with their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

isv@Acts:23:34 @ After reading the letter, he asked which province he was from. On learning that he was from Cilicia,

isv@Acts:24:1 @ Five days later, the high priest Ananias arrived with some elders and Tertullius, an attorney, and they presented their case against Paul before the governor.

isv@Acts:24:2 @ When Paul had been summoned, Tertullius opened the prosecution by saying:“Your Excellency Felix, since we are enjoying lasting peace through you, and since reforms for this nation are being brought about through your foresight,

isv@Acts:24:3 @ we always and everywhere acknowledge it with profound gratitude.

isv@Acts:24:5 @ For we have found this man a perfect pest and an agitator among all Jews throughout the world. He is a ringleader in the sect of the Nazarenes

isv@Acts:24:9 @ The Jews supported his accusations by asserting that these things were true.

isv@Acts:24:10 @ When the governor motioned for Paul to speak, he replied: “Since I know that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I am pleased to present my defense.

isv@Acts:24:11 @ You can verify for yourself that I went up to worship in Jerusalem no more than twelve days ago.

isv@Acts:24:12 @ They never found me debating with anyone in the temple or stirring up a crowd in the synagogues or throughout the city,

isv@Acts:24:14 @ However, I admit to you that in accordance with the Way, which they call a heresy, I worship the God of our ancestors and believe in everything written in the Law and the Prophets.

isv@Acts:24:15 @ I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish—that there is to be a resurrection of the righteous and the wicked.

isv@Acts:24:18 @ They found me in the temple doing these things just as I had completed the purification ceremony. No crowd or noisy mob was present.

isv@Acts:24:20 @ Otherwise, these men themselves should tell what wrong they found when I stood before the Council—

isv@Acts:24:21 @ unless it is for the one thing I shouted as I stood among them: ‘It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’”

isv@Acts:24:22 @ Felix was rather well informed about the Way, and so he adjourned the trial with the comment, “When Tribune Lysias arrives, I will decide your case.”

isv@Acts:24:24 @ Some days later, Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and listened to him talk about faith in Christ Jesus.

isv@Acts:24:26 @ At the same time he was hoping to get money from Paul, and so he would send for him frequently to talk with him.

isv@Acts:25:4 @ Festus replied that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself would be going there soon.

isv@Acts:25:6 @ Festus stayed with them no more than eight or ten days and then went down to Caesarea. The next day he sat on the judge's seat and ordered Paul brought in.

isv@Acts:25:7 @ When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and began bringing a number of serious charges against him that they couldn't prove.

isv@Acts:25:10 @ But Paul said, “I am standing before the emperor's judgment seat where I ought to be tried. I haven't done anything wrong to the Jews, as you know very well.

isv@Acts:25:11 @ If I am guilty and have done something that deserves death, I don't refuse to die. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can hand me over to them as a favor. I appeal to the emperor!”

isv@Acts:25:16 @ I answered them that it was not the Roman custom to hand over a man for punishment until the accused met his accusers face to face and had an opportunity to defend himself against the charge.

isv@Acts:25:17 @ “So they came here with me, and the next day without any delay I sat down in the judge's seat and ordered the man to be brought in.

isv@Acts:25:20 @ I was puzzled how I should investigate such matters and asked if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried there in regard to these things.

isv@Acts:25:23 @ The next day Agrippa and Bernice arrived with much fanfare and went into the auditorium along with the tribunes and the leading men of the city. At the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

isv@Acts:25:24 @ Then Festus said, “King Agrippa and all you men who are present with us! You see this man about whom the whole Jewish nation petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.

isv@Acts:25:25 @ I find that he has not done anything deserving of death. But since he has appealed to his Majesty, I have decided to send him.

isv@Acts:25:26 @ I have nothing reliable to write our Sovereign about him, so I have brought him to all of you, and especially to you, King Agrippa, so that I will have something to write after he is cross-examined.

isv@Acts:26:2 @ “I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, that I can defend myself today against all the accusations of the Jews,

isv@Acts:26:3 @ since you are especially familiar with all the Jewish customs and controversies. I beg you, therefore, to listen patiently to me.

isv@Acts:26:5 @ They have known for a long time, if they would but testify to it, that I lived as a Pharisee by the standard of the strictest sect of our religion.

isv@Acts:26:6 @ “And now it is for the hope of the promise made by God to our ancestors that I stand here on trial.

isv@Acts:26:7 @ Our twelve tribes, worshiping day and night with intense devotion, hope to attain it. It is for this hope, O King, that I am accused by the Jews.

isv@Acts:26:8 @ Why is it thought incredible by all of you that God should raise the dead?

isv@Acts:26:10 @ That is what I did in Jerusalem. I received authority from the high priests and locked many of the saints in prison. And when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.

isv@Acts:26:12 @ “That is how I happened to be traveling to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests.

isv@Acts:26:13 @ On the road at noon, O King, I saw from heaven a light that was brighter than the sun flash around me and those who were traveling with me.

isv@Acts:26:16 @ But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you to be a servant and witness of what you have seen and of what I will show you.

isv@Acts:26:18 @ You will open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they might receive the forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

isv@Acts:26:20 @ Instead, I first told the people in Damascus and Jerusalem, then the whole countryside of Judea, and then the Gentiles to repent, turn to God, and practice works that are consistent with such repentance.

isv@Acts:26:22 @ I have had help from God to this day, and so I stand here to testify to high and low alike, stating only what the prophets and Moses said would happen—

isv@Acts:26:23 @ that the Christ would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead and would announce light to our people and the Gentiles.”

isv@Acts:26:24 @ As he continued to make his defense, Festus shouted, “You're out of your mind, Paul! Too much education is driving you crazy!”

isv@Acts:26:26 @ Indeed, the king knows about these things, and I can speak to him freely. For I am certain that none of these things has escaped his notice, since this wasn't done in a corner.

isv@Acts:26:29 @ Paul replied, “Whether quickly or not, I wish to God that not only you but everyone listening to me today would become what I am—except for these chains!”

isv@Acts:26:31 @ As they were leaving, they began to say to each other, “This man isn't doing anything to deserve death or imprisonment.”

isv@Acts:27:1 @ When it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they transferred Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the emperor's division.

isv@Acts:27:2 @ Boarding a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to the ports on the coast of Asia, we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, went with us.

isv@Acts:27:3 @ The next day we arrived at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to visit his friends and receive any care he needed.

isv@Acts:27:9 @ Much time had been lost, and because navigation had become dangerous and the day of fasting had already past, Paul began to warn them

isv@Acts:27:10 @ by saying, “Men, I see that in this voyage there will be hardship and a heavy loss not only of the cargo and ship but also of our lives.”

isv@Acts:27:11 @ But the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and the owner of the ship and not by what Paul said.

isv@Acts:27:12 @ Since the harbor was not a good place to spend the winter, most of the men favored putting out to sea from there on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix and spend the winter there. It is a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest.

isv@Acts:27:15 @ The ship was caught so that it couldn't face the wind, and we gave up and were swept along.

isv@Acts:27:16 @ As we drifted to the sheltered side of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the ship's lifeboat.

isv@Acts:27:17 @ They pulled it up on deck and used ropes to brace the ship. Fearing that they would hit the large sandbank near Lybia, they lowered the sail and drifted along.

isv@Acts:27:20 @ For a number of days neither the sun nor the stars were to be seen, and the storm continued to rage until at last all hope of our being saved vanished.

isv@Acts:27:25 @ So have courage, men, for I trust God that it will turn out just as he told me.

isv@Acts:27:27 @ It was the fourteenth night, and we were drifting through the Adriatic Sea when about midnight the sailors suspected that land was near.

isv@Acts:27:28 @ On taking soundings, they found a depth of twenty fathoms. A little later they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms.

isv@Acts:27:29 @ Fearing that we might run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and began praying for daylight to come.

isv@Acts:27:30 @ Now the sailors were trying to escape from the ship. They had lowered the lifeboat into the sea and pretended that they were going to lay out the anchors from the bow.

isv@Acts:27:32 @ Then the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and set it adrift.

isv@Acts:27:33 @ Right up to daybreak Paul kept urging all of them to eat something, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, having eaten nothing.

isv@Acts:27:34 @ So I urge you to eat something, for it will help you survive, since none of you will lose a hair from his head.”

isv@Acts:27:35 @ After he said this, he took some bread, thanked God in front of everyone, broke it, and began to eat.

isv@Acts:27:36 @ All of them were encouraged and had something to eat.

isv@Acts:27:38 @ After they had eaten all they wanted, they began to lighten the ship by dumping the wheat into the sea.

isv@Acts:27:40 @ So they cut the anchors free and left them in the sea. At the same time they untied the ropes that held the steering oars, raised the foresail to the wind, and headed for the beach.

isv@Acts:28:1 @ When we were safely on shore, we learned that the island was called Malta.

isv@Acts:28:3 @ Paul gathered a bundle of sticks and put it on the fire. A poisonous snake was forced out by the heat and attached itself to Paul's hand.

isv@Acts:28:7 @ The governor of the island, whose name was Publius, owned estates in that part of the island, and he welcomed us and entertained us with great hospitality for three days.

isv@Acts:28:8 @ The father of Publius happened to be sick in bed with fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, prayed, and healed him by placing his hands on him.

isv@Acts:28:9 @ After that had happened, the rest of the sick people on the island went to him and were healed.

isv@Acts:28:11 @ Three months later, we sailed on an Alexandrian ship that had spent the winter at the island. It had the Twin Brothers as its figurehead.

isv@Acts:28:12 @ We stopped at Syracuse and stayed there for three days.

isv@Acts:28:13 @ Then we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. A day later a south wind began to blow, and on the second day we came to Puteoli.

isv@Acts:28:17 @ Three days later, he called the leaders of the Jews together. When they assembled, he said to them, “Brothers, although I haven't done anything against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

isv@Acts:28:18 @ They examined me and wanted to let me go because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.

isv@Acts:28:20 @ That's why I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the hope of Israel that I'm wearing this chain.”

isv@Acts:28:22 @ However, we would like to hear from you what you think, because everywhere people are talking against this sect.”

isv@Acts:28:24 @ Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others wouldn't believe.

isv@Acts:28:25 @ They disagreed with one another as they were leaving, and Paul added a statement: “How well did the Holy Spirit speak to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah!

isv@Acts:28:27 @ For this people's heart has become dull,and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyesso that they may never see with their eyes, and listen with their ears,and understand with their heart and turn and let me heal them.”’

isv@Acts:28:28 @ “You must understand that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen.”

isv@Romans:1:7 @ To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be holy. May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!

isv@Romans:1:10 @ in my prayers at all times, asking that somehow by God's will I may at last succeed in coming to you.

isv@Romans:1:11 @ For I am longing to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong,

isv@Romans:1:12 @ that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.

isv@Romans:1:13 @ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now), so that I might reap a harvest among you, just as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.

isv@Romans:1:15 @ That is why I am so eager to proclaim the gospel to you who live in Rome, too.

isv@Romans:1:16 @ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who believes, of the Jew first and of the Greek as well.

isv@Romans:1:18 @ For God's wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and wickedness of those who in their wickedness suppress the truth.

isv@Romans:1:19 @ For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God himself has made it plain to them.

isv@Romans:1:20 @ For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes—his eternal power and divine nature—have been understood and observed by what he made, so that people are without excuse.

isv@Romans:1:23 @ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that looked like mortal human beings, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

isv@Romans:1:25 @ They exchanged God's truth for a lie and worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

isv@Romans:1:26 @ For this reason, God gave them over to degrading passions. Even their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural.

isv@Romans:1:27 @ In the same way, their males also abandoned the natural sexual function of females and burned with lust for one another. Males committed indecent acts with males, and received in themselves the appropriate penalty for their perversion.

isv@Romans:1:28 @ Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to retain the full knowledge of God, God gave them over to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.

isv@Romans:1:30 @ slanderers, God-haters, haughty, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to their parents,

isv@Romans:1:32 @ Although they know God's just requirement—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

isv@Romans:2:2 @ Now we know that God's judgment against those who practice such is based on truth.

isv@Romans:2:4 @ Or do you think so little of the riches of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that it is God's kindness that is leading you to repentance?

isv@Romans:2:5 @ But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

isv@Romans:2:6 @ For he will repay everyone according to what that person has done:

isv@Romans:2:7 @ eternal life to those who strive for glory, honor, and immortality by patiently doing good;

isv@Romans:2:8 @ but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead.

isv@Romans:2:14 @ For whenever Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

isv@Romans:2:15 @ They show that what the law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them

isv@Romans:2:16 @ on that day when God, through Jesus Christ, will judge people's secrets according to my gospel.

isv@Romans:2:18 @ and know his will, and approve of what is best because you have been instructed in the law;

isv@Romans:2:19 @ and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,

isv@Romans:2:29 @ No, a person is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by a written law. That person's praise will come from God, not from people.

isv@Romans:3:1 @ What advantage, then, does the Jew have, or what value is there in circumcision?

isv@Romans:3:3 @ What if some of them were unfaithful? Their unfaithfulness cannot cancel God's faithfulness, can it?

isv@Romans:3:5 @ But if our unrighteousness serves to confirm God's righteousness, what can we say? God is not unrighteous when he vents his wrath on us, is he? (I am talking in human terms.)

isv@Romans:3:8 @ Or can we say—as some people slander us by claiming that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

isv@Romans:3:9 @ What, then, does this mean? Are we Jews any better off? Not at all! For we have already accused everyone, both Jews and Greeks, of being under the power of sin.

isv@Romans:3:13 @ Their throats are open graves.With their tongues they practice deception.The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.

isv@Romans:3:17 @ They have not learned the path to peace.

isv@Romans:3:19 @ Now we know that whatever the law says applies to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

isv@Romans:3:21 @ But now, apart from the law, God's righteousness is revealed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets—

isv@Romans:3:24 @ By his grace they are justified freely through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

isv@Romans:3:25 @ whom God offered as a place where atonement by Christ's blood could occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past.

isv@Romans:3:26 @ He wanted to demonstrate at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies the person who has the faithfulness of Jesus.

isv@Romans:3:27 @ What, then, is there to boast about? That has been eliminated. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on the principle of faith.

isv@Romans:3:28 @ For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works prescribed by the law.

isv@Romans:3:30 @ since there is only one God who will justify the circumcised on the basis of faith and the uncircumcised by that same faith.

isv@Romans:4:1 @ What, then, are we to say about Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh?

isv@Romans:4:3 @ For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

isv@Romans:4:4 @ Now to someone who works, wages are not considered a gift but an obligation.

isv@Romans:4:10 @ Under what circumstances was it credited? Was he circumcised or uncircumcised? He had not been circumcised, but was uncircumcised.

isv@Romans:4:11 @ Afterward he received the mark of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. Therefore, he is the ancestor of all who believe while uncircumcised, in order that righteousness may be credited to them.

isv@Romans:4:12 @ He is also the ancestor of the circumcised—those who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

isv@Romans:4:13 @ For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law, but through the righteousness produced by faith.

isv@Romans:4:15 @ for the law brings about wrath. Now where there is no law, neither can there be any violation of it.

isv@Romans:4:16 @ Therefore, the promise is based on faith, so that it may be a matter of grace and may be guaranteed for all his descendants—not only for those who were given the law, but also for those who share Abraham's faith, who is the father of us all.

isv@Romans:4:17 @ As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations.” Abraham acted in faith when he stood in God's presence, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that don't even exist.

isv@Romans:4:18 @ Hoping in spite of hopeless circumstances, he believed that he would become “the father of many nations,” just as he had been told: “This is how many descendants you will have.”

isv@Romans:4:19 @ He did not weaken in faith when he thought about his own body (which was already as good as dead now that he was about a hundred years old) or about Sarah's inability to have children,

isv@Romans:4:21 @ being absolutely convinced that God would do what he had promised.

isv@Romans:4:25 @ He was handed over to death because of our sins and was raised to life because of our justification.

isv@Romans:5:3 @ Not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

isv@Romans:5:6 @ For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

isv@Romans:5:8 @ But God demonstrates his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

isv@Romans:5:9 @ Now that we have been justified by his blood, how much more will we be saved from wrath through him!

isv@Romans:5:10 @ For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life!

isv@Romans:5:11 @ Not only that, but we also continue to boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.

isv@Romans:5:12 @ Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to everyone, because all have sinned.

isv@Romans:5:14 @ Nevertheless, death ruled from the time of Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the same way Adam did when he disobeyed. He is a type of the one who would come.

isv@Romans:5:16 @ Nor can the free gift be compared to what came through the man who sinned. For the sentence that followed one man's offense brought condemnation, but the free gift brought justification, even after many offenses.

isv@Romans:5:17 @ For if, through one man, death ruled because of that man's offense, how much more will those who receive such overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness rule in life because of one man, Jesus Christ!

isv@Romans:5:18 @ Consequently, just as one offense resulted in condemnation for everyone, so one act of righteousness results in justification and life for everyone.

isv@Romans:5:20 @ Now the law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more,

isv@Romans:5:21 @ so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

isv@Romans:6:1 @ What should we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase?

isv@Romans:6:3 @ Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

isv@Romans:6:4 @ Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.

isv@Romans:6:5 @ For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

isv@Romans:6:6 @ We know that our old selves were crucified with him so that our sinful bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin.

isv@Romans:6:8 @ Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,

isv@Romans:6:9 @ for we know that Christ, who was raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

isv@Romans:6:10 @ For when he died, he died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that he is alive, he lives for God.

isv@Romans:6:12 @ Therefore, do not let sin rule your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.

isv@Romans:6:13 @ Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

isv@Romans:6:15 @ What, then, does this mean? Should we go on sinning because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not!

isv@Romans:6:16 @ Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

isv@Romans:6:17 @ But thank God that, though you were once slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching with which you were entrusted!

isv@Romans:6:19 @ I am speaking in human terms because of the frailty of your flesh. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification.

isv@Romans:6:21 @ What benefit did you get from doing those things you are now ashamed of? For those things resulted in death.

isv@Romans:6:22 @ But now that you have been freed from sin and have become God's slaves, the benefit you reap is sanctification, and the result is eternal life.

isv@Romans:6:23 @ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

isv@Romans:7:1 @ Don't you realize, brothers—for I am speaking to people who know the law—that the law can press its claims over a person only as long as he is alive?

isv@Romans:7:3 @ So while her husband is living, she will be called an adulterer even if she lives with another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from this law, so that she is not an adulterer if she marries another man.

isv@Romans:7:4 @ In the same way, my brothers, through Christ's body you also died as far as the law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.

isv@Romans:7:5 @ For while we were living in the flesh, sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death.

isv@Romans:7:6 @ But now we have been released from the law by dying to what enslaved us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit, not under the old written code.

isv@Romans:7:7 @ What should we say, then? Is the law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have known sin if it had not been for the law. For I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”

isv@Romans:7:9 @ At one time I was alive without any connection to the law. But when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,

isv@Romans:7:10 @ and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

isv@Romans:7:13 @ Now, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the commandment sin might become more sinful than ever.

isv@Romans:7:14 @ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am mere flesh, sold as a slave to sin.

isv@Romans:7:15 @ I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't do what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.

isv@Romans:7:16 @ Now if I do what I don't want to do, I agree that the law is good.

isv@Romans:7:17 @ As it is, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

isv@Romans:7:18 @ For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.

isv@Romans:7:19 @ For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.

isv@Romans:7:20 @ But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

isv@Romans:7:21 @ So I find this to be a law: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.

isv@Romans:7:23 @ but I see in my body a different law waging war with the law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.

isv@Romans:7:24 @ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

isv@Romans:8:1 @ Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

isv@Romans:8:2 @ For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

isv@Romans:8:3 @ For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to deal with sin. He condemned sin in the flesh

isv@Romans:8:4 @ so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

isv@Romans:8:6 @ To set our minds on the flesh leads to death, but to set our minds on the Spirit leads to life and peace.

isv@Romans:8:7 @ That is why the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile toward God. For it refuses to submit to the authority of God's law because it is powerless to do so.

isv@Romans:8:12 @ Consequently, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

isv@Romans:8:13 @ For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continually put to death the activities of the body, you will live.

isv@Romans:8:15 @ For you have not received a spirit of slavery that leads you into fear again. Instead, you have received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

isv@Romans:8:16 @ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.

isv@Romans:8:17 @ Now if we are children, we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if, in fact, we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

isv@Romans:8:18 @ For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us.

isv@Romans:8:19 @ For the creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his children,

isv@Romans:8:20 @ because the creation was subjected to frustration, though not by its own choice. The one who subjected it did so in the hope

isv@Romans:8:21 @ that the creation itself would also be set free from slavery to decay in order to share the glorious freedom of God's children.

isv@Romans:8:22 @ For we know that all creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

isv@Romans:8:23 @ However, not only creation groans, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit also groan inwardly as we eagerly wait for our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

isv@Romans:8:24 @ For we were saved with this hope in mind. Now hope that is seen is not really hope, for who hopes for what can be seen?

isv@Romans:8:25 @ But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patience.

isv@Romans:8:28 @ And we know that he works all things together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.

isv@Romans:8:29 @ For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

isv@Romans:8:31 @ What, then, can we say about all of this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

isv@Romans:8:33 @ Who can bring an accusation against God's chosen people? It is God who justifies them!

isv@Romans:8:34 @ Who can condemn them? Christ Jesus, who died—and more importantly, who has been raised and is seated at the right hand of God—is the one who is also interceding for us!

isv@Romans:8:35 @ Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or a sword?

isv@Romans:8:38 @ For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

isv@Romans:8:39 @ nor anything above, nor anything below, nor anything else in all creation can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

isv@Romans:9:3 @ for I could wish that I myself were condemned and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh.

isv@Romans:9:5 @ To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, Christ descended, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

isv@Romans:9:7 @ and not all of Abraham's descendants are his true descendants. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that descendants will be named for you.”

isv@Romans:9:8 @ That is, it is not the children of natural descent who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as descendants.

isv@Romans:9:9 @ For this is the language of promise: “At this time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

isv@Romans:9:10 @ Not only that, but Rebecca became pregnant by our ancestor Isaac.

isv@Romans:9:11 @ Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate

isv@Romans:9:13 @ As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

isv@Romans:9:14 @ What can we say, then? God is not unrighteous, is he? Of course not!

isv@Romans:9:17 @ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “I have raised you up for this very purpose,to demonstrate my power in you and that my name might be proclaimedin all the earth.”

isv@Romans:9:20 @ On the contrary, who are you—mere man that you are—to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, “Why did you make me like this?”

isv@Romans:9:21 @ A potter has the right to do what he wants to with his clay, doesn't he? He can make something for a special occasion or something for ordinary use from the same lump.

isv@Romans:9:22 @ Now if God wants to demonstrate his wrath and reveal his power, can't he be extremely patient with the objects of his wrath that are made for destruction?

isv@Romans:9:23 @ Can't he also reveal his glorious riches to the objects of his mercy that he has prepared ahead of time for glory—

isv@Romans:9:30 @ What can we say, then? Gentiles, who were not pursuing righteousness, have attained righteousness, a righteousness that comes through faith.

isv@Romans:9:31 @ But Israel, who did pursue the righteousness that is based on the law, did not arrive at that law.

isv@Romans:9:32 @ Why not? Because they did not pursue it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on works. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble.

isv@Romans:9:33 @ As it is written, “Look! I am placing a stone in Zionthat people will stumble over and a large rock that will make them fall,and the one who believes in him will never be ashamed.”

isv@Romans:10:1 @ Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God on behalf of the Jews is that they would be saved.

isv@Romans:10:2 @ For I can testify on their behalf that they have a zeal for God, but it is not in keeping with full knowledge.

isv@Romans:10:3 @ For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God's righteousness.

isv@Romans:10:4 @ For Christ is the culmination of the law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.

isv@Romans:10:5 @ For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the law as follows: “The person who obeys these things will find life in them.”

isv@Romans:10:6 @ But the righteousness that comes from faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),

isv@Romans:10:7 @ or ‘Who will go down into the depths?’ (that is, to bring Christ back from the dead).”

isv@Romans:10:8 @ But what does it say? “The message is near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart.” This is the message of faith that we proclaim:

isv@Romans:10:9 @ If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

isv@Romans:10:19 @ Again I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” Moses was the first to say, “I will make you jealousby those who are not a nation; I will make you angryby a nation that doesn't understand.”

isv@Romans:11:2 @ God has not rejected his people whom he chose long ago. Don't you know what the Scripture says in the story about Elijah, when he pleads with God against Israel?

isv@Romans:11:4 @ But what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for myself 7,000 people who have not knelt to worship Baal.”

isv@Romans:11:5 @ So it is at the present time: there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

isv@Romans:11:7 @ What, then, does this mean? It means that Israel failed to obtain what it was striving for, but those who were chosen obtained it. However, the rest were hardened.

isv@Romans:11:10 @ Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,and keep their backs forever bent.”

isv@Romans:11:11 @ And so I ask, “They have not stumbled so as to fall, have they?” Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make the Jews jealous.

isv@Romans:11:14 @ in the hope that I can make my people jealous and save some of them.

isv@Romans:11:15 @ For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

isv@Romans:11:16 @ If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

isv@Romans:11:18 @ do not boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

isv@Romans:11:19 @ Then you will say, “Branches were cut off so that I could be grafted in.”

isv@Romans:11:20 @ That's right! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you remain only because of faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid!

isv@Romans:11:21 @ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly will not spare you either.

isv@Romans:11:24 @ After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!

isv@Romans:11:25 @ For I do not want you to be ignorant of this secret, brothers, so that you will not claim to be wiser than you are. A partial hardening has come on Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

isv@Romans:11:31 @ in order they too have disobeyed in the present so that they may receive mercy because of the mercy shown to you.

isv@Romans:11:32 @ For God has locked all people in the prison of their own disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

isv@Romans:12:1 @ I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.

isv@Romans:12:2 @ Do not be conformed to this world, but continually be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is—what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.

isv@Romans:12:3 @ For by the grace given to me I ask every one of you not to think of yourself more highly than you should think, rather to think of yourself with sober judgment on the measure of faith that God has assigned each of you.

isv@Romans:12:6 @ We have different gifts based on the grace that was given to us. So if your gift is prophecy, use your gift in proportion to your faith.

isv@Romans:12:9 @ Your love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

isv@Romans:12:12 @ Be joyful in hope, patient in trouble, and persistent in prayer.

isv@Romans:12:16 @ Live in harmony with each other. Do not be arrogant, but associate with humble people. Do not think that you are wiser than you really are.

isv@Romans:12:17 @ Do not pay anyone back evil for evil, but focus your thoughts on what is right in the sight of all people.

isv@Romans:12:19 @ Do not take revenge, dear fiends, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me. I will pay them back, declares the Lord.”

isv@Romans:13:2 @ so that whoever resists the authorities opposes what God has established, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

isv@Romans:13:3 @ For the authorities are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you like to live without being afraid of the authorities? Then do what is right, and you will receive their approval.

isv@Romans:13:4 @ For they are God's servants working for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for it is not without reason that they bear the sword. Indeed, they are God's servants to execute wrath on anyone who does wrong.

isv@Romans:13:5 @ Therefore, it is necessary for you to be subject, not only because of God's wrath but also because of your own conscience.

isv@Romans:13:7 @ Pay everyone whatever you owe them—taxes to whom taxes are due, tolls to whom tolls are due, fear to whom fear is due, honor to whom honor is due.

isv@Romans:13:9 @ For the commandments, “You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not covet,” and every other commandment are summed up in this statement: “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

isv@Romans:13:10 @ Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.

isv@Romans:13:11 @ This is necessary because you know the times—that it's time for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we became believers.

isv@Romans:14:2 @ One person believes that he can eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

isv@Romans:14:3 @ The person who eats must not despise the person who does not eat, and the person who does not eat must not criticize the person who eats, for God has accepted him.

isv@Romans:14:5 @ One person decides that one day is better than another, while another person decides that all days are the same. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind.

isv@Romans:14:6 @ The one who observes a special day, observes it to honor the Lord. The one who eats, eats to honor the Lord, since he gives thanks to God. And the one who does not eat, refrains from eating to honor the Lord; yet he, too, gives thanks to God.

isv@Romans:14:9 @ For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he might become the Lord of both the dead and the living.

isv@Romans:14:10 @ Why, then, do you criticize your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For all of us will stand before the judgment seat of God.

isv@Romans:14:14 @ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in and of itself. But it is unclean to a person who thinks it is unclean.

isv@Romans:14:15 @ For if your brother is being hurt by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not destroy the person for whom Christ died by what you eat.

isv@Romans:14:19 @ Therefore, let us keep on pursuing those things that bring peace and that lead to building one another up.

isv@Romans:14:20 @ Do not destroy God's work for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make another person fall because of what you eat.

isv@Romans:14:21 @ The right thing to do is to avoid eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that makes your brother stumble or become upset or weak.

isv@Romans:14:22 @ As for the faith you do have, have it as your own conviction before God. How blessed is the person who has no reason to condemn himself because of what he approves!

isv@Romans:14:23 @ But the person who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not act in faith; and anything that is not done in faith is sin.

isv@Romans:15:1 @ Now we who are strong ought to be patient with the weaknesses of those who are not strong and must stop pleasing ourselves.

isv@Romans:15:4 @ For everything that was written long ago was written for our instruction, so that we might have hope through the endurance and encouragement that the Scriptures give us.

isv@Romans:15:6 @ so that with one mind and one voice you might glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

isv@Romans:15:8 @ For I tell you that Christ became a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God's truth in order to confirm the promises given to our forefathers,

isv@Romans:15:9 @ so that the Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “That is why I will praise you among the Gentiles;I will sing praises to your name.”

isv@Romans:15:11 @ And again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles!Let all the nations praise him.”

isv@Romans:15:13 @ Now may God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace as you believe, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

isv@Romans:15:14 @ I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are filled with goodness and full of all the knowledge you need to be able to instruct each other.

isv@Romans:15:15 @ However, on some points I have written to you rather boldly, both as a reminder to you and because of the grace given me by God

isv@Romans:15:16 @ to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable because it has been sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

isv@Romans:15:18 @ For I am bold enough to tell you only about what Christ has accomplished through me in the bringing of Gentiles to obedience. By my words and actions,

isv@Romans:15:20 @ My one ambition is to proclaim the gospel where the name of Christ is not known, lest I build on someone else's foundation.

isv@Romans:15:21 @ Rather, as it is written, “Those who were never told about him will see,and those who have never heard will understand.”

isv@Romans:15:24 @ Now that I am on my way to Spain, I hope to see you when I come your way and, after I have enjoyed your company for a while, to be sent on by you.

isv@Romans:15:27 @ Yes, they were eager to do this, and in fact they are obligated to help them, for if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to be of service to them in material things.

isv@Romans:15:29 @ And I know that when I come to you I will come with the full blessing of Christ.

isv@Romans:15:30 @ Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit produces, to join me in my struggle, earnestly praying to God for me

isv@Romans:15:31 @ that I may be rescued from the unbelievers in Judea, that my ministry to Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

isv@Romans:15:32 @ and that by the will of God I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.

isv@Romans:16:1 @ Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant in the church at Cenchreae.

isv@Romans:16:2 @ Welcome her in the Lord as is appropriate for saints, and provide her with anything she may need from you, for she has assisted many people, including me.

isv@Romans:16:8 @ Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

isv@Romans:16:14 @ Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.

isv@Romans:16:17 @ Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and sinful enticements in opposition to the teaching you have learned. Stay away from them!

isv@Romans:16:18 @ For such people are not serving Christ our Lord but their own desires. By their smooth talk and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

isv@Romans:16:19 @ For your obedience has become known to everyone, and I am full of joy for you. But I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

isv@Romans:16:20 @ The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!

isv@Romans:16:21 @ Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my fellow Jews.

isv@Romans:16:25 @ Now to the one who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and the message that I preach about Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret that was kept in silence in long ages past

isv@1Corinthians:1:3 @ May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!

isv@1Corinthians:1:8 @ He will keep you strong until the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

isv@1Corinthians:1:10 @ Brothers, I urge all of you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to be in agreement and not to have divisions among you, so that you may be perfectly united in your understanding and opinions.

isv@1Corinthians:1:11 @ My brothers, some members of Chloe's family have made it clear to me that there are quarrels among you.

isv@1Corinthians:1:12 @ This is what I mean: Each of you is saying, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”

isv@1Corinthians:1:14 @ I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Chrispus and Gaius,

isv@1Corinthians:1:15 @ lest anyone can say that you were baptized in my name.

isv@1Corinthians:1:16 @ (Yes, I also baptized the family of Stephanus. Beyond that, I'm not sure whether I baptized anyone else.)

isv@1Corinthians:1:27 @ But God chose what is nonsense in the world to make the wise feel ashamed. God chose what is weak in the world to make the strong feel ashamed.

isv@1Corinthians:1:28 @ And God chose what is insignificant in the world, what is despised, what is nothing, in order to destroy what is something,

isv@1Corinthians:1:29 @ so that no human being may boast in God's presence.

isv@1Corinthians:1:30 @ It is because of him that you are in union with Christ Jesus, who for us has become wisdom from God, as well as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

isv@1Corinthians:2:3 @ It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you.

isv@1Corinthians:2:5 @ so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God's power.

isv@1Corinthians:2:6 @ However, when we are among mature people, we do speak a message of wisdom, but not the wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are passing off the scene.

isv@1Corinthians:2:7 @ Instead, we speak about God's secret wisdom that has been hidden, which God destined for our glory before the world began.

isv@1Corinthians:2:9 @ But as it is written, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard,and no mind has imagined the things that God has preparedfor those who love him.”

isv@1Corinthians:2:12 @ Now, we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we can understand the things that were freely given to us by God.

isv@1Corinthians:2:14 @ A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.

isv@1Corinthians:2:15 @ The spiritual person evaluates everything but is subject to no one else's evaluation.

isv@1Corinthians:2:16 @ For “Who has known the mind of the Lordso that he can advise him?”However, we have the mind of Christ.

isv@1Corinthians:3:3 @ That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you?

isv@1Corinthians:3:5 @ What is Apollos anyhow? Or what is Paul? Mere servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave to each of us his task.

isv@1Corinthians:3:6 @ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God kept everything growing.

isv@1Corinthians:3:7 @ So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters.

isv@1Corinthians:3:8 @ The one who plants and the one who waters have the same goal, and each will receive a reward for his own work.

isv@1Corinthians:3:10 @ As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it.

isv@1Corinthians:3:11 @ After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus Christ.

isv@1Corinthians:3:12 @ Whether a person builds on this foundation with gold, silver, expensive stones, wood, hay, or straw,

isv@1Corinthians:3:13 @ the workmanship of each person will become evident, for the day will show what it is, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's work.

isv@1Corinthians:3:14 @ If what a person has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

isv@1Corinthians:3:16 @ You know that you are God's sanctuary and that God's Spirit lives in you, don't you?

isv@1Corinthians:3:17 @ If anyone destroys God's sanctuary, God will destroy him, for God's sanctuary is holy. And you are that sanctuary!

isv@1Corinthians:3:19 @ For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written, “He catches the wise with their own trickery,”

isv@1Corinthians:3:20 @ and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless.”

isv@1Corinthians:3:22 @ whether Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, or the future—everything belongs to you,

isv@1Corinthians:4:2 @ Now it is required of managers that each one should prove to be trustworthy.

isv@1Corinthians:4:3 @ It is a very small thing to me that I should be examined by you or by any human court. In fact, I don't even examine myself.

isv@1Corinthians:4:4 @ For my conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who examines me.

isv@1Corinthians:4:5 @ Therefore, stop judging before the proper time, before the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the motives of our hearts. Then each person will receive his praise from God.

isv@1Corinthians:4:6 @ Brothers, I have applied all this to Apollos and myself for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will stop boasting about one person at the expense of another.

isv@1Corinthians:4:7 @ For who makes you superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not receive it?

isv@1Corinthians:4:8 @ You already have all you want! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you really were kings so that we could be kings with you!

isv@1Corinthians:4:9 @ For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.

isv@1Corinthians:4:11 @ To this very hour we are hungry, thirsty, dressed in rags, brutally treated, and homeless.

isv@1Corinthians:4:15 @ You may have 10,000 guardians in Christ, but not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

isv@1Corinthians:4:16 @ So I urge you to become imitators of me.

isv@1Corinthians:4:17 @ That's why I sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and dependable child in the Lord and will help you remember my way of life in Christ Jesus as I teach it everywhere in every church.

isv@1Corinthians:4:19 @ But I will come to you soon if it's the Lord's will. Then I'll discover not only what these arrogant people are saying but also what power they have,

isv@1Corinthians:5:1 @ It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the Gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!

isv@1Corinthians:5:2 @ And you are being arrogant instead of being filled with grief and seeing to it that the man who did this is removed from among you.

isv@1Corinthians:5:4 @ When you are gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus and my spirit and the power of our Lord Jesus are present,

isv@1Corinthians:5:5 @ hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

isv@1Corinthians:5:6 @ Your boasting is not good. You know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, don't you?

isv@1Corinthians:5:7 @ Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

isv@1Corinthians:5:8 @ So let us keep celebrating the festival, not with the old yeast or with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the bread of purity and truth that has no yeast.

isv@1Corinthians:5:9 @ I wrote to you in my letter to stop associating with people who are sexually immoral—

isv@1Corinthians:5:10 @ not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or greedy people, robbers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

isv@1Corinthians:5:11 @ But now I am writing to you to stop associating with any so-called brother if he is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunk, or a robber. With such a person you must even stop eating.

isv@1Corinthians:5:13 @ God will judge outsiders. “Put that wicked man away from you.”

isv@1Corinthians:6:2 @ You know that the saints will rule the world, don't you? And if the world is going to be ruled by you, can't you handle insignificant cases?

isv@1Corinthians:6:3 @ You know that we will rule angels, not to mention things in this life, don't you?

isv@1Corinthians:6:5 @ I say this to make you feel ashamed. Has it come to this, that there is not one person among you who is wise enough to settle disagreements between brothers?

isv@1Corinthians:6:6 @ Instead, one brother goes to court against another brother, and before unbelievers at that!

isv@1Corinthians:6:7 @ The very fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

isv@1Corinthians:6:8 @ Instead, you yourselves practice doing wrong and cheating others, and brothers at that!

isv@1Corinthians:6:9 @ You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don't you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,

isv@1Corinthians:6:11 @ That is what some of you were! But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

isv@1Corinthians:6:15 @ You know that your bodies are parts of Christ, don't you? Should I take the parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? Certainly not!

isv@1Corinthians:6:16 @ You know that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her, don't you? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

isv@1Corinthians:6:18 @ Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.

isv@1Corinthians:6:19 @ You know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, don't you? You do not belong to yourselves,

isv@1Corinthians:7:3 @ A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should do the same for her husband.

isv@1Corinthians:7:5 @ Do not withhold yourselves from each other unless you agree to do so for a set time in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then you should come together again so that Satan does not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

isv@1Corinthians:7:7 @ I would like everyone to be like me. However, each person has a special gift from God, one this and another that.

isv@1Corinthians:7:17 @ Nevertheless, everyone should live the life that the Lord gave him and to which God called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

isv@1Corinthians:7:18 @ Was anyone circumcised when he was called? He should not try to change that. Was anyone uncircumcised when he was called? He should not get circumcised.

isv@1Corinthians:7:21 @ Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that bother you. Of course, if you have a chance to become free, take advantage of the opportunity.

isv@1Corinthians:7:28 @ But if you do get married, you have not sinned. And if a virgin gets married, she has not sinned. However, these people will experience distress in the flesh, and I want to spare you that.

isv@1Corinthians:7:29 @ This is what I mean, brothers: The time has been shortened. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

isv@1Corinthians:7:32 @ I want you to be free from concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, that is, about how he can please the Lord.

isv@1Corinthians:7:33 @ But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, that is, about how he can please his wife,

isv@1Corinthians:7:34 @ and so his attention is divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, that is, about how she can please her husband.

isv@1Corinthians:7:36 @ If a man thinks he is not behaving properly toward his virgin, and if his passion is too strong and he feels he ought to, let him do what he wants; he isn't sinning. Let them get married.

isv@1Corinthians:7:37 @ However, if a man stands firm in his resolve and feels no necessity but has made up his mind to keep her a virgin, he will be acting appropriately.

isv@1Corinthians:7:38 @ So then the man who marries the virgin acts appropriately, but the man who refrains from marriage does even better.

isv@1Corinthians:7:40 @ However, in my opinion she will be happier if she stays as she is. And I think that I, too, have God's Spirit.

isv@1Corinthians:8:1 @ Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

isv@1Corinthians:8:4 @ Now concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that no idol is real in the world and that there is only one God.

isv@1Corinthians:8:6 @ yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom everything came into being and for whom we live. And there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything came into being and through whom we live.

isv@1Corinthians:8:7 @ But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are so accustomed to idols that they still think they are eating food offered to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it becomes contaminated.

isv@1Corinthians:8:8 @ However, food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

isv@1Corinthians:8:9 @ But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

isv@1Corinthians:8:10 @ For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol's temple, he will be encouraged to eat what has been offered to idols, won't he?

isv@1Corinthians:8:11 @ In that case, the weak brother for whom Christ died is destroyed by your knowledge.

isv@1Corinthians:8:13 @ Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from falling.

isv@1Corinthians:9:4 @ We have the right to eat and drink, don't we?

isv@1Corinthians:9:7 @ Who would ever go to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Or who takes care of a flock and does not drink any of its milk?

isv@1Corinthians:9:11 @ If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

isv@1Corinthians:9:13 @ You know that those who work in the temple get their food from the temple and that those who serve at the altar get their share of its offerings, don't you?

isv@1Corinthians:9:14 @ In the same way, the Lord has ordered that those who proclaim the gospel should make their living from the gospel.

isv@1Corinthians:9:15 @ But I have not used any of these rights, and I'm not writing this so that they may be applied in my case. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

isv@1Corinthians:9:16 @ For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, for this obligation has been laid on me. How terrible it would be for me if I didn't preach the gospel!

isv@1Corinthians:9:17 @ For if I do this voluntarily, I get a reward, but if I am unwilling to do it, I am still entrusted with an obligation.

isv@1Corinthians:9:18 @ What, then, is my reward? It's to be able to preach the gospel free of charge, and so never resort to using my rights in the gospel.

isv@1Corinthians:9:22 @ To the weak I became weak in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some of them.

isv@1Corinthians:9:24 @ You know that in a race all the runners run but only one wins the prize, don't you? You must run in such a way that you may be victorious.

isv@1Corinthians:9:25 @ Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that dies, but we to win one that never dies.

isv@1Corinthians:9:26 @ That is the way I run, with a clear goal in mind. That is the way I box, not like someone punching the air.

isv@1Corinthians:9:27 @ No, I keep on beating my body and making it my slave so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified.

isv@1Corinthians:10:1 @ For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the fact that all of our ancestors were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea,

isv@1Corinthians:10:3 @ and they all ate the same spiritual food,

isv@1Corinthians:10:4 @ and they all drank the same spiritual drink, for they continually drank from the spiritual Rock that went with them, and that Rock was Christ.

isv@1Corinthians:10:6 @ Now these things became examples for us so that we won't set our hearts on evil as they did.

isv@1Corinthians:10:7 @ Let us stop being idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to play.”

isv@1Corinthians:10:12 @ Therefore, the person who thinks he is standing securely should watch out that he does not fall.

isv@1Corinthians:10:13 @ No temptation has overtaken you that is unusual for human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. Instead, along with the temptation he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to endure it.

isv@1Corinthians:10:14 @ And so, my dear friends, keep on running away from idolatry.

isv@1Corinthians:10:15 @ I am talking to sensible people. Decide for yourselves what I am saying.

isv@1Corinthians:10:16 @ The cup of blessing that we bless is a sign of our sharing in the blood of Christ, isn't it? The bread that we break is a sign of our sharing in the body of Christ, isn't it?

isv@1Corinthians:10:18 @ Look at the Israelites from a human point of view. Those who eat the sacrifices share in what is on the altar, don't they?

isv@1Corinthians:10:19 @ Am I suggesting that an offering made to idols means anything, or that an idol itself means anything?

isv@1Corinthians:10:20 @ Hardly! What they offer, they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partners with demons.

isv@1Corinthians:10:21 @ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

isv@1Corinthians:10:24 @ No one should seek his own welfare, but rather his neighbor's.

isv@1Corinthians:10:25 @ Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it on the ground of conscience,

isv@1Corinthians:10:27 @ If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, raising no question on the ground of conscience.

isv@1Corinthians:10:28 @ However, if someone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice,” don't eat it, both out of consideration for the one who told you and because of conscience.

isv@1Corinthians:10:30 @ If I eat with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of what I am thankful for?

isv@1Corinthians:10:31 @ Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.

isv@1Corinthians:10:33 @ just as I myself try to please everybody in every way, not looking for my own advantage but for that of many people, so that they might be saved.

isv@1Corinthians:11:1 @ Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

isv@1Corinthians:11:3 @ Now I want you to realize that Christ is the head of every man, and man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.

isv@1Corinthians:11:9 @ and man was not created for woman, but woman for man.

isv@1Corinthians:11:14 @ Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair

isv@1Corinthians:11:15 @ nor that hair is a woman's glory, for hair is given as a substitute for coverings.

isv@1Corinthians:11:17 @ Now I am not praising you in giving you the following instructions. When you gather, it is not for the better but for the worse.

isv@1Corinthians:11:18 @ For in the first place, I hear that when you gather as a church there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

isv@1Corinthians:11:20 @ When you gather in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper.

isv@1Corinthians:11:21 @ For as you eat, each of you rushes to eat his own supper, and one person goes hungry while another gets drunk.

isv@1Corinthians:11:22 @ You have homes in which to eat and drink, don't you? Or do you despise God's church and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

isv@1Corinthians:11:23 @ For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you—how the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread,

isv@1Corinthians:11:24 @ gave thanks for it, and broke it in pieces, saying,“This is my body that isfor you. Keep doing this in memory of me.”

isv@1Corinthians:11:26 @ For as often as you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

isv@1Corinthians:11:27 @ Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks from the cup in an unworthy manner will be held responsible for the Lord's body and blood.

isv@1Corinthians:11:28 @ A person must examine himself and then eat the bread and drink from the cup.

isv@1Corinthians:11:29 @ For the one who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

isv@1Corinthians:11:30 @ That's why so many of you are weak and sick and a considerable number are dying.

isv@1Corinthians:11:33 @ Therefore, my brothers, when you gather to eat, wait for each other.

isv@1Corinthians:11:34 @ If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather it may not bring judgment on you. And when I come I will give instructions concerning the other matters.

isv@1Corinthians:12:2 @ You know that when you were Gentiles, you were enticed and led away to idols that couldn't even speak.

isv@1Corinthians:12:3 @ Therefore, I want you to know that no one who is speaking by God's Spirit can say, “Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

isv@1Corinthians:12:9 @ to another faith by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit;

isv@1Corinthians:12:10 @ to another miraculous results; to another prophecy; to another the ability to distinguish between spirits; to another various kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues.

isv@1Corinthians:12:11 @ But one and the same Spirit produces all these results and gives what he wants to each person.

isv@1Corinthians:12:15 @ If the foot says, “Since I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body,” that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

isv@1Corinthians:12:16 @ And if the ear says, “Since I'm not an eye, I'm not part of the body,” that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

isv@1Corinthians:12:18 @ But at this very time God has arranged the parts, every one of them, in the body just as he wanted to.

isv@1Corinthians:12:22 @ On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are in fact indispensable,

isv@1Corinthians:12:23 @ and the parts of the body that we think are less honorable are treated with special honor, and we make our less attractive parts more attractive.

isv@1Corinthians:12:24 @ However, our attractive parts don't need this. But God has put the body together and has given special honor to the parts that lack it,

isv@1Corinthians:12:25 @ so that there might be no disharmony in the body, but that its parts should have the same concern for each other.

isv@1Corinthians:12:28 @ God has appointed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who perform miracles, those who have gifts of healing, those who help others, administrators, and various kinds of tongues.

isv@1Corinthians:13:1 @ If I speak in the tongues of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal.

isv@1Corinthians:13:3 @ Even if I give away all that I have and surrender my body so that I may boast but have no love, I get nothing out of it.

isv@1Corinthians:13:4 @ Love is always patient, Love is always kind, Love is never envious Or vaunted up with pride. Nor is she conceited,

isv@1Corinthians:13:9 @ For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete.

isv@1Corinthians:13:10 @ But when what is complete comes, then what is incomplete will be done away with.

isv@1Corinthians:13:12 @ Now we see only a blurred reflection in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

isv@1Corinthians:13:13 @ Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

isv@1Corinthians:14:5 @ Now I wish that all of you could speak in tongues, but especially that you could prophesy. The person who prophesies is more important than the person who speaks in a tongue, unless he interprets it so that the church may be built up.

isv@1Corinthians:14:6 @ Indeed, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what good will I be to you unless I speak to you in some revelation, knowledge, prophecy, or teaching?

isv@1Corinthians:14:7 @ In the same way, lifeless instruments like the flute or harp produce sounds. But if there's no difference in the notes, how can a person tell what tune is being played?

isv@1Corinthians:14:8 @ For example, if a bugle doesn't sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?

isv@1Corinthians:14:9 @ In the same way, unless you speak an intelligible message with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? You'll be talking into the air!

isv@1Corinthians:14:15 @ What does this mean? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing psalms with my spirit, but I will also sing psalms with my mind.

isv@1Corinthians:14:16 @ Otherwise, if you say a blessing with your spirit, how can an otherwise uneducated person say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you're saying?

isv@1Corinthians:14:18 @ I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

isv@1Corinthians:14:19 @ But in church I would rather speak five words with my mind to instruct others than 10,000 words in a tongue.

isv@1Corinthians:14:23 @ Now if the whole church gathers in the same place and everyone is speaking in tongues, when uneducated people or unbelievers come in, they will say that you are out of your mind, won't they?

isv@1Corinthians:14:24 @ But if everyone is prophesying, when an unbeliever or an uneducated person comes in he will be convicted by all and examined by all.

isv@1Corinthians:14:26 @ What, then, does this mean, brothers? When you gather, everyone has a psalm, teaching, revelation, tongue, or interpretation. Everything must be done for upbuilding.

isv@1Corinthians:14:27 @ If anyone speaks in a tongue, only two or three at the most should do so, one at a time, and somebody must interpret.

isv@1Corinthians:14:29 @ Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.

isv@1Corinthians:14:30 @ If a revelation is made to another person who is seated, the first person should be silent.

isv@1Corinthians:14:31 @ For everyone can prophesy in turn, so that everyone can be instructed and everyone can be encouraged.

isv@1Corinthians:14:35 @ If they want to learn anything, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is inappropriate for a woman to speak out in church.

isv@1Corinthians:14:36 @ Did God's word originate with you? Are you the only people it has reached?

isv@1Corinthians:14:37 @ If anyone thinks he is a prophet or a spiritual person, he must acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord's command.

isv@1Corinthians:15:1 @ Now I'm making known to you, brothers, the gospel that I proclaimed to you, which you accepted, on which you have taken your stand,

isv@1Corinthians:15:3 @ For I passed on to you the most important points of what I received: Christ died for our sins in keeping with the Scriptures,

isv@1Corinthians:15:6 @ After that, he was seen by more than 500 brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.

isv@1Corinthians:15:8 @ and finally he was seen by me, as though I were born abnormally late.

isv@1Corinthians:15:10 @ But by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace shown to me was not wasted. Instead, I worked harder than all the others—not I, of course, but God's grace that was with me.

isv@1Corinthians:15:11 @ So, whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

isv@1Corinthians:15:12 @ Now if we preach that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you keep claiming there is no resurrection of the dead?

isv@1Corinthians:15:15 @ In addition, we are found to be false witnesses about God because we testified on God's behalf that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if in fact it is true that the dead are not raised.

isv@1Corinthians:15:20 @ But at this moment Christ stands risen from the dead, the first one offered in the harvest of those who have died.

isv@1Corinthians:15:21 @ For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

isv@1Corinthians:15:24 @ Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has done away with every ruler and every authority and power.

isv@1Corinthians:15:26 @ The last enemy to be done away with is death,

isv@1Corinthians:15:28 @ But when everything has been put under him, then the Son himself will also become subject to the one who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.

isv@1Corinthians:15:29 @ Otherwise, what will those people do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they being baptized for them?

isv@1Corinthians:15:31 @ I face death every day! That is as certain, brothers, as it is that I am proud of you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

isv@1Corinthians:15:32 @ If I have fought with wild animals in Ephesus from merely human motives, what do I get out of it? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

isv@1Corinthians:15:35 @ But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come back?”

isv@1Corinthians:15:37 @ and what you plant is not the form that it will be, but a bare kernel, whether it is wheat or something else.

isv@1Corinthians:15:40 @ There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of those in heaven is of one kind, and that of those on earth is of another.

isv@1Corinthians:15:42 @ This is how it will be at the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is decaying, what is raised cannot decay.

isv@1Corinthians:15:45 @ This, indeed, is what is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

isv@1Corinthians:15:50 @ Brothers, this is what I mean: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and what decays cannot inherit what does not decay.

isv@1Corinthians:15:52 @ in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. Indeed, that trumpet will sound, and then the dead will be raised never to decay, and we will be changed.

isv@1Corinthians:15:53 @ For what is decaying must put on what cannot decay, and what is dying must put on what cannot die.

isv@1Corinthians:15:54 @ Now, when what is decaying puts on what cannot decay, and what is dying puts on what cannot die, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory!”

isv@1Corinthians:15:55 @ “Where, O death, is your victory?Where, O death, is your sting?”

isv@1Corinthians:15:56 @ Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

isv@1Corinthians:15:58 @ Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, unmovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that your work isn't wasted in the Lord.

isv@1Corinthians:16:1 @ Now concerning the collection for the saints, you should follow the directions I gave to the churches in Galatia.

isv@1Corinthians:16:2 @ On the first day of the week, each of you should set aside and save some of your money in proportion to what you have, so that no collections will have to be made when I come.

isv@1Corinthians:16:10 @ If Timothy comes, see to it that he does not have anything to be afraid of while he is with you, for he is doing the Lord's work as I am.

isv@1Corinthians:16:11 @ Therefore, no one should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he may come to me, because I am expecting him along with the brothers.

isv@1Corinthians:16:15 @ Now I urge you, brothers—for you know that the members of the family of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to serving the saints—

isv@1Corinthians:16:17 @ I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus came here, because they have supplied what was lacking from you.

isv@1Corinthians:16:18 @ They refreshed my spirit—and yours, too. Therefore, appreciate men like that.

isv@2Corinthians:1:1 @ From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the holy people throughout Achaia.

isv@2Corinthians:1:2 @ May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!

isv@2Corinthians:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! He is the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort,

isv@2Corinthians:1:4 @ who comforts us in all our suffering, so that we may be able to comfort others in all their suffering, since we ourselves are being comforted by God.

isv@2Corinthians:1:6 @ If we suffer, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are suffering.

isv@2Corinthians:1:7 @ Our hope for you is unshaken, because we know that as you share our sufferings, you also share our comfort.

isv@2Corinthians:1:8 @ For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about the suffering we experienced in Asia. We were so crushed beyond our ability to endure that we even despaired of living.

isv@2Corinthians:1:9 @ In fact, we felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not rely on ourselves but on the God who raises the dead.

isv@2Corinthians:1:10 @ He has rescued us from a terrible death, and he will continue to rescue us. Yes, the one on whom we have set our hope will rescue us again,

isv@2Corinthians:1:12 @ For this is what we boast about: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world with pure motives and godly sincerity, without earthly wisdom but with God's grace—and especially towards you.

isv@2Corinthians:1:13 @ For what we are writing you is nothing more than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely,

isv@2Corinthians:1:14 @ just as you have already understood us partially, so that on the day of our Lord Jesus we can be your reason to boast, even as you are ours.

isv@2Corinthians:1:15 @ It was because of this confidence that I planned to come to you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.

isv@2Corinthians:1:17 @ When I planned this, I did not do it lightly, did I? Are my plans so fickle that I can say “Yes” and “No” at the same time?

isv@2Corinthians:1:23 @ I call upon God as a witness on my behalf that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

isv@2Corinthians:1:24 @ It is not that we are trying to lord it over your faith. On the contrary, we are workers with you to promote your joy, because you have been standing firm in the faith.

isv@2Corinthians:2:3 @ This is the very reason I wrote you, so that when I did come I might not be made sad by those who should have made me happy. For I had confidence in all of you that my gladness would be for all of you.

isv@2Corinthians:2:4 @ For I wrote to you out of great sorrow and anguish of heart—along with many tears—not to make you sad but to let you know how much love I have for you.

isv@2Corinthians:2:8 @ That's why I'm urging you to assure him of your love.

isv@2Corinthians:2:10 @ When you forgive someone, I do, too. Indeed, what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I did in the presence of Christ for your benefit,

isv@2Corinthians:2:11 @ so that we may not be outsmarted by Satan. After all, we are not unaware of his intentions.

isv@2Corinthians:2:17 @ At least we are not commercializing God's word like so many others. Instead, in Christ we speak with sincerity, like people who are sent from God and are accountable to God.

isv@2Corinthians:3:1 @ Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?

isv@2Corinthians:3:3 @ You are demonstrating that you are Christ's letter, produced by our service, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

isv@2Corinthians:3:4 @ Such is the confidence that we have in God through Christ.

isv@2Corinthians:3:5 @ By ourselves we are not qualified to claim that anything comes from us. Rather, our credentials come from God,

isv@2Corinthians:3:6 @ who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

isv@2Corinthians:3:7 @ Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses’ face (because the glory was fading away from it),

isv@2Corinthians:3:9 @ For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, then the ministry of justification has an overwhelming glory.

isv@2Corinthians:3:10 @ In fact, that which once had glory lost its glory, because the other glory surpassed it.

isv@2Corinthians:3:11 @ For if that which fades away came through glory, how much more does that which is permanent have glory?

isv@2Corinthians:3:12 @ Therefore, since we have such a hope, we speak with great boldness,

isv@2Corinthians:3:13 @ not like Moses, who kept covering his face with a veil to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

isv@2Corinthians:3:14 @ However, their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil is still there when they read the old covenant. Only in union with Christ is that veil removed.

isv@2Corinthians:4:2 @ Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

isv@2Corinthians:4:7 @ But we have this treasure in clay jars to show that its extraordinary power comes from God and not from us.

isv@2Corinthians:4:8 @ In every way we're troubled but not crushed, frustrated but not in despair,

isv@2Corinthians:4:10 @ We are always carrying around the death of Jesus in our bodies, so that the life of Jesus may be clearly shown in our bodies.

isv@2Corinthians:4:11 @ While we are alive, we are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be clearly shown in our dying bodies.

isv@2Corinthians:4:12 @ And so death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

isv@2Corinthians:4:13 @ Now since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with what is written—“I believed, and so I spoke”—we also believe, and so we speak.

isv@2Corinthians:4:14 @ We know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us to God together with you.

isv@2Corinthians:4:15 @ All this is for your sake so that, as his grace spreads, it will increase the thanksgiving of more and more people to the glory of God.

isv@2Corinthians:4:16 @ That's why we are not discouraged. No, even if our outer man is wearing out, our inner man is being renewed day by day.

isv@2Corinthians:4:17 @ This light, temporary nature of our suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory, far beyond any comparison,

isv@2Corinthians:4:18 @ because we do not look for things that can be seen but for things that cannot be seen. For things that can be seen are temporary, but things that cannot be seen are eternal.

isv@2Corinthians:5:1 @ We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

isv@2Corinthians:5:4 @ So while we are still in this tent, we sigh under our burdens, because we do not want to put it off but to put it on, so that our dying bodies may be swallowed up by life.

isv@2Corinthians:5:6 @ Therefore, we are always confident, and we know that as long as we are at home in this body we are away from the Lord.

isv@2Corinthians:5:9 @ So whether we are at home or away from home, our goal is to be pleasing to him.

isv@2Corinthians:5:10 @ For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what he deserves for what he has done in his body, whether good or worthless.

isv@2Corinthians:5:12 @ We are not recommending ourselves to you again but are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who are proud of outward things rather than inward character.

isv@2Corinthians:5:14 @ The love of Christ controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.

isv@2Corinthians:5:15 @ He died for all people, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the one who died and rose for them.

isv@2Corinthians:5:16 @ So then, from now on we do not think of anyone from a human point of view. Even if we did think of Christ from a human point of view, we don't think of him that way any more.

isv@2Corinthians:5:17 @ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and—look!—all things have become new!

isv@2Corinthians:5:18 @ All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

isv@2Corinthians:5:19 @ For in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them, and he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

isv@2Corinthians:5:20 @ Therefore, we are Christ's representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on Christ's behalf: “Be reconciled to God!”

isv@2Corinthians:5:21 @ God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become God's righteousness in him.

isv@2Corinthians:6:2 @ For he says, “At the right time I heard you, and on a day of salvation I helped you.”Listen, now is really the “right time”! Now is the “day of salvation”!

isv@2Corinthians:6:4 @ Instead, in every way we demonstrate that we are God's servants by tremendous endurance in the midst of difficulties, hardships, and calamities;

isv@2Corinthians:6:5 @ in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights, and hunger;

isv@2Corinthians:6:6 @ with purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; with the Holy Spirit, genuine love,

isv@2Corinthians:6:14 @ Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?

isv@2Corinthians:6:15 @ What harmony exists between Christ and Beliar, or what do a believer and an unbeliever have in common?

isv@2Corinthians:6:16 @ What agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: “I will live and walk among them.I will be their God,and they will be my people.”

isv@2Corinthians:6:17 @ Therefore, “Get away from themand separate yourselves from them,”declares the Lord, “and don't touch anything unclean.Then I will welcome you.

isv@2Corinthians:6:18 @ I will be your Father,and you will be my sons and daughters,”declares the Lord Almighty.

isv@2Corinthians:7:1 @ Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

isv@2Corinthians:7:2 @ Make room for us in your hearts! We have not treated anyone unjustly, harmed anyone, or cheated anyone.

isv@2Corinthians:7:3 @ I am not saying this to condemn you. I told you before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

isv@2Corinthians:7:4 @ I have great confidence in you. I am very proud of you. I am very much encouraged. I am overjoyed in all our troubles.

isv@2Corinthians:7:8 @ If I made you sad with my letter, I do not regret it, although I did regret it then. I see that the letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while.

isv@2Corinthians:7:10 @ For having sorrow in a godly way results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

isv@2Corinthians:7:11 @ See what great earnestness godly sorrow has produced in you! How ready you are to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how full of longing and enthusiasm, how eager to seek justice! In every way you have demonstrated that you are innocent in this matter.

isv@2Corinthians:7:12 @ So, even though I wrote to you, it wasn't because of the man who did the wrong or because of the man who was hurt. Instead, I wrote to you so that your devotion to us might be made perfectly clear to you before God.

isv@2Corinthians:7:13 @ This is what comforted us. In addition to our own comfort, we were even more delighted at the joy of Titus, because his spirit had been set at rest by all of you.

isv@2Corinthians:7:16 @ I rejoice that I can have complete confidence in you.

isv@2Corinthians:8:1 @ We want you to know, brothers, about God's grace that was given to the churches of Macedonia.

isv@2Corinthians:8:3 @ I can testify that by their own free will they have given to the utmost of their ability, yes, even beyond their ability.

isv@2Corinthians:8:4 @ They begged us earnestly for the privilege of participating in this ministry to the saints.

isv@2Corinthians:8:5 @ We did not expect that! They gave themselves to the Lord first and then to us, since this was God's will.

isv@2Corinthians:8:6 @ So we urged Titus to finish this work of kindness among you in the same way that he had started it.

isv@2Corinthians:8:9 @ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Although he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through his poverty, might become rich.

isv@2Corinthians:8:10 @ I am giving you my opinion on this matter because it will be helpful to you. Last year you were not only willing to do something, but had already started to do it.

isv@2Corinthians:8:11 @ Now finish doing it, so that your eagerness to undertake it may be matched by its completion, in keeping with what you have.

isv@2Corinthians:8:12 @ For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you do not have.

isv@2Corinthians:8:13 @ Not that others should have relief while you have hardship. Rather, it is a question of fairness.

isv@2Corinthians:8:14 @ At the present time, your surplus fills their need, so that their surplus may fill your need. In this way things are fair.

isv@2Corinthians:8:16 @ But thanks be to God, who placed in the heart of Titus the same dedication to you that I have.

isv@2Corinthians:8:19 @ More than that, he has also been selected by the churches to travel with us while we are administering this work of kindness for the glory of the Lord and as evidence of our eagerness to help.

isv@2Corinthians:8:20 @ We are trying to avoid any criticism of the way we are administering this great undertaking.

isv@2Corinthians:8:21 @ We intend to do what is right, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of people.

isv@2Corinthians:8:22 @ We have also sent with them our brother whom we have often tested in many ways and found to be dedicated. At present he is more dedicated than ever because he has so much confidence in you.

isv@2Corinthians:8:24 @ Therefore, give to the churches a demonstration of your love and a reason for why we boast about you.

isv@2Corinthians:9:2 @ For I know how willing you are, and I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated most of them.

isv@2Corinthians:9:3 @ Now I have sent the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter may not prove to be an idle boast, and so that you may stand ready, just as I said.

isv@2Corinthians:9:4 @ Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find out that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—in this undertaking.

isv@2Corinthians:9:7 @ Each of you must give what you have decided in your heart, not with regret or under compulsion, since God loves a cheerful giver.

isv@2Corinthians:9:8 @ Besides, God is able to make every blessing of yours overflow for you, so that in every situation you will always have all you need for any good work.

isv@2Corinthians:9:9 @ As it is written, “He scatters everywhere and gives to the poor;his righteousness lasts forever.”

isv@2Corinthians:9:10 @ Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread to eat will also supply you with seed and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

isv@2Corinthians:9:13 @ Because of the proof that this service of yours brings, you will glorify God because of your obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ and because of your generosity in sharing with them and everyone else.

isv@2Corinthians:9:14 @ And so in their prayers for you they will long for you because of God's exceptional grace that was shown to you.

isv@2Corinthians:10:2 @ I beg you that when I come I will not need to be courageous by daring to oppose some people who think that we are living according to the flesh.

isv@2Corinthians:10:5 @ and every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive in order to obey Christ.

isv@2Corinthians:10:7 @ Look at the plain facts! If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

isv@2Corinthians:10:9 @ I do not want you to think that I am trying to frighten you with my letters.

isv@2Corinthians:10:11 @ Someone like this should take note of the following: What we say by letter when we are absent is what we will do when present!

isv@2Corinthians:10:13 @ We will not boast about what cannot be evaluated. Instead, we will stay within the field that God assigned us, so as to reach even you.

isv@2Corinthians:10:15 @ We are not boasting about the work done by others that cannot be evaluated. On the contrary, we cherish the hope that your faith may continue to grow and enlarge our sphere of action among you until it overflows.

isv@2Corinthians:11:3 @ However, I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by its tricks, so your minds may somehow be lured away from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

isv@2Corinthians:11:6 @ Even though I may be untrained as an orator, I am not so in the field of knowledge. We have made this clear to all of you in every possible way.

isv@2Corinthians:11:7 @ Did I commit a sin when I humbled myself by proclaiming to you the gospel of God free of charge, so that you could be exalted?

isv@2Corinthians:11:11 @ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!

isv@2Corinthians:11:12 @ But I will go on doing what I'm doing in order to deny an opportunity to those people who want an opportunity to be recognized as our equals in the work they are boasting about.

isv@2Corinthians:11:14 @ And no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

isv@2Corinthians:11:15 @ So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their doom will match their deeds!

isv@2Corinthians:11:16 @ I will say it again: No one should think that I am a fool. But if you do, then treat me like a fool so that I can also boast a little.

isv@2Corinthians:11:20 @ You put up with anyone who makes you his slaves, devours what you have, takes what is yours, orders you around, or slaps your face!

isv@2Corinthians:11:21 @ I am ashamed to admit it, but we have been too weak for that. Whatever anyone else dares to claim—I am talking like a fool—I can claim it, too.

isv@2Corinthians:11:23 @ Are they Christ's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.

isv@2Corinthians:11:25 @ Three times I was beaten with a stick, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, and I drifted on the sea for a day and a night.

isv@2Corinthians:11:26 @ I have been involved in frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the open country, dangers at sea, dangers from false brothers,

isv@2Corinthians:11:30 @ If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show how weak I am.

isv@2Corinthians:11:31 @ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

isv@2Corinthians:11:32 @ In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas put guards around the city of Damascus to catch me,

isv@2Corinthians:12:1 @ I must boast, although it does not do any good. I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

isv@2Corinthians:12:2 @ I know a man in Christ. Fourteen years ago—whether in his body or outside of his body, I do not know, but God knows—that man was snatched away to the third heaven.

isv@2Corinthians:12:3 @ I know that this man—whether in his body or outside of his body, I do not know, but God knows—

isv@2Corinthians:12:4 @ was snatched away to Paradise and heard things that cannot be expressed in words, things that no human being has a right even to mention.

isv@2Corinthians:12:6 @ However, if I did want to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I am not going to do it in order to keep anyone from thinking more of me than what he sees and hears about me.

isv@2Corinthians:12:7 @ To keep me from becoming conceited because of the exceptional nature of these revelations, a thorn was given to me and placed in my body. It was Satan's messenger to keep on tormenting me so that I would not become conceited.

isv@2Corinthians:12:9 @ but he has told me,“My grace is all you need, for my power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

isv@2Corinthians:12:10 @ That is why I take such pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ's sake, for when I am weak, then I am strong.

isv@2Corinthians:12:12 @ The signs of an apostle were performed among you with utmost patience—signs, wonders, and works of power.

isv@2Corinthians:12:13 @ How were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I did not bother you for help? Forgive me for this wrong!

isv@2Corinthians:12:16 @ Granting that I have not been a burden to you, was I a clever schemer who trapped you by some trick?

isv@2Corinthians:12:19 @ Have you been thinking all along that we are trying to defend ourselves before you? We are speaking before God in Christ, and everything, dear friends, is meant to build you up.

isv@2Corinthians:12:20 @ I am afraid that I may come and somehow find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. Perhaps there will be quarreling, jealousy, angry feelings, selfishness, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

isv@2Corinthians:12:21 @ I am afraid that when I come my God may again humble me before you and that I may have to grieve over many who formerly lived in sin and have not repented of their impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity that they once practiced.

isv@2Corinthians:13:1 @ This will be the third time I am coming to you. “Every accusation must be verified by two or three witnesses.”

isv@2Corinthians:13:3 @ since you want proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you but is making his power felt among you.

isv@2Corinthians:13:5 @ Keep examining yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. Test yourselves! You know, do not you, that Jesus Christ lives in you? Could it be that you are failing the test?

isv@2Corinthians:13:6 @ I hope you will realize that we haven't failed our test.

isv@2Corinthians:13:7 @ We pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not to show that we have not failed the test, but so that you may do what is right, even if we seem to have failed.

isv@2Corinthians:13:9 @ We are glad when we are weak and you are strong. That is what we are praying for—your maturity.

isv@2Corinthians:13:11 @ Finally, brothers, goodbye. Keep on growing to maturity. Keep listening to my appeals. Continue agreeing with each other and living in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

isv@Galatians:1:1 @ From Paul—an apostle not sent from men or by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead—

isv@Galatians:1:2 @ and all the brothers who are with me, to the churches in Galatia.

isv@Galatians:1:3 @ May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!

isv@Galatians:1:4 @ He gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.

isv@Galatians:1:5 @ To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

isv@Galatians:1:6 @ I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ to follow a different gospel,

isv@Galatians:1:7 @ which is not really another one. To be sure, there are certain people who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel about Christ.

isv@Galatians:1:8 @ But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that person be condemned!

isv@Galatians:1:9 @ What we have told you in the past I am now telling you again: If anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that person be condemned!

isv@Galatians:1:10 @ Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be Christ's servant.

isv@Galatians:1:11 @ For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin.

isv@Galatians:1:12 @ For I did not receive it from a man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

isv@Galatians:1:13 @ For you have heard about my earlier life in Judaism—how I kept violently persecuting God's church and was trying to destroy it.

isv@Galatians:1:14 @ I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries, because I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

isv@Galatians:1:15 @ But when God, who set me apart before I was born and who called me by his grace, was pleased

isv@Galatians:1:16 @ to reveal his Son to me so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with another human being at any time,

isv@Galatians:1:17 @ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me. Instead, I went away to Arabia and then came back to Damascus.

isv@Galatians:1:18 @ Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and I stayed with him for fifteen days.

isv@Galatians:1:19 @ But I did not see any other apostle except James, the Lord's brother.

isv@Galatians:1:20 @ (I declare before God that what I am writing to you is not a lie.)

isv@Galatians:1:21 @ Then I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

isv@Galatians:1:22 @ But I was unknown by sight to the churches of Christ in Judea.

isv@Galatians:1:23 @ The only thing they kept hearing was this: “The man who used to persecute us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy!”

isv@Galatians:1:24 @ So they kept glorifying God for what had happened to me.

isv@Galatians:2:1 @ Then fourteen years later I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.

isv@Galatians:2:2 @ I went in response to a revelation, and in a private meeting with the reputed leaders I set before them the gospel I proclaim among the Gentiles. I did this because I was afraid that I was running or had run for nothing.

isv@Galatians:2:3 @ But not even Titus, who was with me, was forced to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

isv@Galatians:2:4 @ However, false brothers were secretly brought in. They slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus so that they might enslave us.

isv@Galatians:2:5 @ But we did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.

isv@Galatians:2:6 @ Now those who were reputed to be important added nothing to my message. (What sort of people they were makes no difference to me, since God pays no attention to outward appearances.)

isv@Galatians:2:7 @ In fact, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised.

isv@Galatians:2:8 @ For the one who worked through Peter by making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me by sending me to the Gentiles.

isv@Galatians:2:9 @ So when James, Cephas, and John (who were reputed to be leaders) recognized the grace that had been given me, they gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

isv@Galatians:2:10 @ The only thing they asked us to do was to remember the destitute, the very thing I was eager to do.

isv@Galatians:2:11 @ But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly wrong.

isv@Galatians:2:12 @ For until some men came from James, he was in the habit of eating with the Gentiles, but after they came he drew back and would not associate himself with them, being afraid of the circumcision party.

isv@Galatians:2:13 @ The other Jews also joined him in this hypocrisy, to the extent that even Barnabas was caught up in their hypocrisy.

isv@Galatians:2:14 @ But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, “Though you are a Jew, you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. So how can you insist that the Gentiles must live like Jews?”

isv@Galatians:2:15 @ We ourselves are Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners,

isv@Galatians:2:16 @ yet we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. We, too, have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law, for no human being will be justified by the works of the law.

isv@Galatians:2:17 @ Now if we, while trying to be justified in Christ, have been found to be sinners, does that mean that Christ is a minister of sin? Of course not!

isv@Galatians:2:18 @ For if I rebuild something that I tore down, I demonstrate that I am a wrongdoer.

isv@Galatians:2:19 @ For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ.

isv@Galatians:2:20 @ I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

isv@Galatians:2:21 @ I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

isv@Galatians:3:1 @ You foolish Galatians! Who put you under a spell? Was not Jesus Christ clearly portrayed as crucified before your very eyes?

isv@Galatians:3:2 @ I want to learn only one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

isv@Galatians:3:3 @ Are you so foolish? Having started out with the Spirit, are you now ending up with the flesh?

isv@Galatians:3:4 @ Did you suffer so much for nothing? (If it really was for nothing!)

isv@Galatians:3:5 @ Does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you because you do the works of the law or because you believe what you heard?

isv@Galatians:3:6 @ In the same way, Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

isv@Galatians:3:7 @ You see, then, that those who have faith are Abraham's real descendants.

isv@Galatians:3:8 @ Because the Scripture saw ahead of time that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, it announced the gospel to Abraham beforehand when it said, “Through you all nations will be blessed.”

isv@Galatians:3:9 @ Therefore, those who believe are blessed together with Abraham, the one who believed.

isv@Galatians:3:10 @ Certainly all who depend on the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the book of the law!”

isv@Galatians:3:11 @ Now it is obvious that no one is justified in the sight of God by the law, because “The righteous will live by faith.”

isv@Galatians:3:12 @ But the law has nothing to do with faith. Instead, “The person who keeps the commandments will have life in them.”

isv@Galatians:3:13 @ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, “A curse on everyone who is hung on a tree!”

isv@Galatians:3:14 @ This happened in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

isv@Galatians:3:15 @ Brothers, let me use an example from everyday life. Once a person's will has been ratified, no one can cancel it or add conditions to it.

isv@Galatians:3:16 @ Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. It doesn't say “descendants,” referring to many, but “your descendant,” referring to one person, who is Christ.

isv@Galatians:3:17 @ This is what I mean: The law that came 430 years later did not cancel the covenant previously ratified by God so as to nullify the promise.

isv@Galatians:3:18 @ For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by the promise. But it was by a promise that God so graciously gave it to Abraham.

isv@Galatians:3:19 @ Why, then, was the law given? It was added because of transgressions until the descendant came to whom the promise was given. It was put into effect through angels by means of an intermediary.

isv@Galatians:3:20 @ Now an intermediary involves more than one party, but God has acted on his own.

isv@Galatians:3:21 @ So is the law in conflict with the promises of God? Of course not! For if a law had been given that could give us life, then certainly righteousness would come through the law.

isv@Galatians:3:22 @ But the Scripture has put everything under the power of sin, so that what was promised by the faithfulness of Christ might be given to those who believe.

isv@Galatians:3:23 @ Now before this faith came, we were held in custody and carefully guarded under the law in preparation for the faith that was to be revealed.

isv@Galatians:3:24 @ And so the law was our guardian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.

isv@Galatians:3:25 @ But now that this faith has come, we are no longer under the control of a guardian.

isv@Galatians:3:26 @ For all of you are God's children through faith in Christ Jesus.

isv@Galatians:3:27 @ Indeed, all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

isv@Galatians:3:28 @ A person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female, because all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

isv@Galatians:3:29 @ And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants and heirs according to the promise.

isv@Galatians:4:1 @ Now what I am saying is this: As long as an heir is a child, he is no better off than a slave, even though he owns everything.

isv@Galatians:4:2 @ Instead, he is placed under the control of guardians and trustees until the time set by the father.

isv@Galatians:4:3 @ It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world.

isv@Galatians:4:4 @ But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

isv@Galatians:4:5 @ in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as his children.

isv@Galatians:4:6 @ Now because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts to cry out, “Abba! Father!”

isv@Galatians:4:7 @ So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir through God.

isv@Galatians:4:8 @ However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.

isv@Galatians:4:9 @ But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?

isv@Galatians:4:10 @ You are observing days, months, seasons, and years.

isv@Galatians:4:11 @ I am afraid for you, lest somehow my work for you has been wasted!

isv@Galatians:4:12 @ I beg you, brothers, to become like me, since I became like you. You did not do anything wrong to me.

isv@Galatians:4:13 @ You know that it was because I was ill that I brought you the gospel the first time.

isv@Galatians:4:14 @ Even though my condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. On the contrary, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as Christ Jesus himself.

isv@Galatians:4:15 @ What, then, happened to your positive attitude? For I testify that if it had been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

isv@Galatians:4:16 @ So have I now become your enemy for telling you the truth?

isv@Galatians:4:17 @ These people are devoted to you, but not in a good way. They want you to avoid me so that you will be devoted to them.

isv@Galatians:4:18 @ (Now it is always good to be devoted to a good cause, even when I am not with you.)

isv@Galatians:4:19 @ My children, I am suffering birth pains for you again until Christ is formed in you.

isv@Galatians:4:20 @ Indeed, I wish I were with you right now so that I could change the tone of my voice, because I am completely baffled by you!

isv@Galatians:4:21 @ Tell me, those of you who want to live under the law: Are you really listening to what the law says?

isv@Galatians:4:22 @ For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman.

isv@Galatians:4:23 @ Now the son of the slave woman was conceived according to the flesh, but the son of the free woman was conceived through a promise.

isv@Galatians:4:24 @ This is being said as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. The one woman, Hagar, is from Mount Sinai, and her children are born into slavery.

isv@Galatians:4:25 @ Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery along with her children.

isv@Galatians:4:26 @ But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our mother.

isv@Galatians:4:27 @ For it is written, “Rejoice, you childless woman,who cannot give birth to any children! Break into song and shout,you who feel no pains of childbirth! For the children of the deserted womanare more numerous than the childrenof the woman who has a husband.”

isv@Galatians:4:28 @ So you, brothers, are children of the promise, like Isaac.

isv@Galatians:4:29 @ But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now.

isv@Galatians:4:30 @ But what does the Scripture say? “Drive out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman must never share the inheritance with the son of the free woman.”

isv@Galatians:4:31 @ So then, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

isv@Galatians:5:1 @ Christ has set us free so that we may enjoy the benefits of freedom. So keep on standing firm in it, and stop attaching yourselves to the yoke of slavery again.

isv@Galatians:5:2 @ Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

isv@Galatians:5:3 @ Again, I insist that everyone who allows himself to be circumcised is obligated to obey the entire law.

isv@Galatians:5:4 @ Those of you who are trying to be justified by the law have been cut off from Christ. You have fallen away from grace.

isv@Galatians:5:5 @ For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.

isv@Galatians:5:6 @ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith that is active through love.

isv@Galatians:5:7 @ You were running beautifully! Who cut in on you and stopped you from obeying the truth?

isv@Galatians:5:8 @ Such influence does not come from the one who calls you.

isv@Galatians:5:9 @ A little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough.

isv@Galatians:5:10 @ I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view of the matter. However, the one who is troubling you will suffer God's judgment, whoever he is.

isv@Galatians:5:11 @ As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching the necessity of circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

isv@Galatians:5:12 @ I wish that those who are unsettling you would castrate themselves!

isv@Galatians:5:13 @ For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another.

isv@Galatians:5:14 @ For the whole law is summarized in a single statement: “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

isv@Galatians:5:15 @ But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not destroyed by each other.

isv@Galatians:5:16 @ So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh.

isv@Galatians:5:17 @ For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do.

isv@Galatians:5:18 @ But if you are being led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

isv@Galatians:5:19 @ Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity,

isv@Galatians:5:20 @ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, rivalry, jealously, outbursts of anger, quarrels, conflicts, factions,

isv@Galatians:5:21 @ envy, murder, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

isv@Galatians:5:22 @ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

isv@Galatians:5:23 @ gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.

isv@Galatians:5:24 @ Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

isv@Galatians:5:25 @ If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.

isv@Galatians:5:26 @ Let us stop being arrogant, provoking one another and envying one another.

isv@Galatians:6:1 @ Brothers, if a person is caught doing something wrong, those of you who are spiritual should restore that person in a spirit of gentleness. Watch out for yourself so that you are not tempted as well.

isv@Galatians:6:2 @ Practice carrying each other's burdens. In this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

isv@Galatians:6:3 @ For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is only fooling himself.

isv@Galatians:6:4 @ Each person must approve his own actions, and then he can boast about his own accomplishments and not those of his neighbor.

isv@Galatians:6:5 @ For everyone must carry his own load.

isv@Galatians:6:6 @ The person who is taught the word should share all his goods with his teacher.

isv@Galatians:6:7 @ Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants.

isv@Galatians:6:8 @ For the person who plants in his flesh will harvest decay from the flesh, but the person who plants in the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit.

isv@Galatians:6:9 @ Let us not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest—if we do not give up.

isv@Galatians:6:10 @ So then, whenever we have the opportunity, let us practice doing good to everyone, especially to the family of faith.

isv@Galatians:6:11 @ Look at how large these letters are because I am writing with my own hand!

isv@Galatians:6:12 @ These people who want to impress others by their flesh are trying to force you to be circumcised, simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

isv@Galatians:6:13 @ Why, not even those who are circumcised obey the law! They simply want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

isv@Galatians:6:14 @ But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!

isv@Galatians:6:15 @ For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.

isv@Galatians:6:16 @ Now may peace be on all those who live by this principle, and may mercy be on the Israel of God.

isv@Galatians:6:17 @ From now on let no one make trouble for me, for I carry the scars of Jesus on my own body.

isv@Galatians:6:18 @ May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers! Amen.

isv@Ephesians:1:2 @ May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!

isv@Ephesians:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! He has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm,

isv@Ephesians:1:4 @ just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love

isv@Ephesians:1:6 @ so that we would praise his glorious grace that he gave us in the Beloved One.

isv@Ephesians:1:8 @ that he lavished on us, along with all wisdom and understanding,

isv@Ephesians:1:9 @ when he made known to us the secret of his will. This was according to his plan that he set forth in Christ

isv@Ephesians:1:10 @ to usher in the fullness of the times and to gather up all things in Christ, both things in heaven and things on earth.

isv@Ephesians:1:12 @ so that we who had already fixed our hope on Christ might live for his praise and glory.

isv@Ephesians:1:13 @ You, too, have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed in him you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

isv@Ephesians:1:17 @ I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation through knowing Christ fully.

isv@Ephesians:1:19 @ and the unlimited greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his mighty strength,

isv@Ephesians:1:20 @ which he put to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realm.

isv@Ephesians:1:21 @ He is far above every ruler, authority, power, dominion, and every name that can be named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

isv@Ephesians:2:2 @ in which you once lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient.

isv@Ephesians:2:3 @ Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we deserved wrath, just like everyone else.

isv@Ephesians:2:4 @ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love for us

isv@Ephesians:2:6 @ raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly realm in Christ Jesus,

isv@Ephesians:2:7 @ so that in the coming ages he might display the limitless riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

isv@Ephesians:2:10 @ For we are his masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared long ago to be our way of life.

isv@Ephesians:2:11 @ So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles by birth and were called “the uncircumcision” by what is called “the circumcision” made in the flesh by hands.

isv@Ephesians:2:12 @ At that time you were without Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.

isv@Ephesians:2:14 @ For it is he who is our peace. In his flesh he made both groups one by tearing down the wall of hostility that divided them.

isv@Ephesians:2:15 @ He rendered the law inoperative, along with its commandments and regulations, so that he might create in himself one new humanity from the two, thus making peace,

isv@Ephesians:2:18 @ For through him, both of us have access to the Father in one Spirit.

isv@Ephesians:2:19 @ That is why you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,

isv@Ephesians:2:20 @ having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.

isv@Ephesians:3:2 @ Surely you have heard about the responsibility of administering God's grace that was given to me on your behalf,

isv@Ephesians:3:3 @ and how this secret was made known to me through a revelation, just as I wrote about briefly in the past.

isv@Ephesians:3:5 @ which in previous generations was not made known to human beings as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets:

isv@Ephesians:3:6 @ The Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow sharers of what was promised in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

isv@Ephesians:3:7 @ I have become a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given me by the working of his power.

isv@Ephesians:3:8 @ To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given so that I might proclaim to the Gentiles the immeasurable wealth of Christ

isv@Ephesians:3:9 @ and help everyone see how this secret, which was hidden for ages in God who created all things, has been at work.

isv@Ephesians:3:10 @ He did this so that now, through the church, the wisdom of God in all its variety might be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realm

isv@Ephesians:3:11 @ in keeping with the eternal purpose that God carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord,

isv@Ephesians:3:14 @ This is the reason I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

isv@Ephesians:3:16 @ I pray that he would give you, according to his glorious riches, strength in your inner being and power through his Spirit,

isv@Ephesians:3:17 @ and that Christ would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,

isv@Ephesians:3:18 @ you will be able to understand, along with all the saints, what is wide, long, high, and deep—

isv@Ephesians:3:19 @ that is, you will know the love of Christ, which goes far beyond knowledge, and will be filled with all the fullness of God.

isv@Ephesians:3:20 @ Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us—

isv@Ephesians:3:21 @ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever! Amen.

isv@Ephesians:4:1 @ I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to live in a way that is worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

isv@Ephesians:4:2 @ with all humility and gentleness, along with patience, accepting one another in love.

isv@Ephesians:4:6 @ one God and Father of all, who is above all, through all, and in all.

isv@Ephesians:4:8 @ That is why God says, “When he went up to the highest placehe led captives into captivityand gave gifts to people.”

isv@Ephesians:4:9 @ Now what does this “he went up” mean except that he also had gone down into the lower parts of the earth?

isv@Ephesians:4:10 @ The one who went down is the same one who went up above all the heavens so that he might fill everything.

isv@Ephesians:4:13 @ until all of us are united in the faith and in the full knowledge of God's Son, and until we attain mature adulthood and the full standard of development in Christ.

isv@Ephesians:4:14 @ Then we will no longer be little children, tossed like waves and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, or by clever strategies that would lead us astray.

isv@Ephesians:4:15 @ Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely into the one who is the head, that is, into Christ,

isv@Ephesians:4:16 @ in whom the whole body is united and held together by every ligament with which it is supplied. As each individual part does its job, the body's growth is promoted so that it builds itself up in love.

isv@Ephesians:4:18 @ They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

isv@Ephesians:4:20 @ However, that is not the way you came to know Christ.

isv@Ephesians:4:24 @ and to clothe yourselves with the new man, which was created according to the likeness of God in righteousness and true holiness.

isv@Ephesians:4:26 @ “Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

isv@Ephesians:4:28 @ The thief must no longer steal but must work hard and do what is good with his own hands, so that he might have something to give to the needy.

isv@Ephesians:4:29 @ Let no filthy talk come out of your mouths, but only what is good for building up as the need may be. This way you will give grace to those who hear you.

isv@Ephesians:4:31 @ Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, quarreling, and slander be put away from you, along with all hatred.

isv@Ephesians:4:32 @ And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in Christ.

isv@Ephesians:5:1 @ So be imitators of God, as his dear children.

isv@Ephesians:5:4 @ Obscene, flippant, or vulgar talk is totally inappropriate. Instead, let there be thanksgiving.

isv@Ephesians:5:5 @ For you know very well that no immoral or impure person, or anyone who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

isv@Ephesians:5:6 @ Do not let anyone deceive you with meaningless words, for it is because of these things that God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient.

isv@Ephesians:5:10 @ Determine what pleases the Lord,

isv@Ephesians:5:11 @ and have nothing to do with the unfruitful works of darkness. Instead, expose them for what they are.

isv@Ephesians:5:12 @ For it is shameful even to mention what is done by people in secret.

isv@Ephesians:5:13 @ But everything that is exposed to the light becomes visible,

isv@Ephesians:5:14 @ for everything that is visible is light. That is why it says, “Wake up, O sleeper!Arise from the dead,And Christ will shine on you.’’

isv@Ephesians:5:17 @ Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

isv@Ephesians:5:20 @ You will always give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

isv@Ephesians:5:26 @ so that he might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word,

isv@Ephesians:5:29 @ For no one has ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, as Christ does the church.

isv@Ephesians:5:31 @ “That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

isv@Ephesians:5:32 @ This is a great secret, but I am talking about Christ and the church.

isv@Ephesians:6:2 @ “Honor your father and mother.” This is a very important commandment with a promise:

isv@Ephesians:6:3 @ “So that it may go well for you, and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

isv@Ephesians:6:4 @ Fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

isv@Ephesians:6:6 @ Do not do this only while being watched in order to please them, but be like slaves of Christ who do God's will from the heart.

isv@Ephesians:6:8 @ For you know that everyone will receive a reward from the Lord for whatever good he has done, whether he is a slave or free.

isv@Ephesians:6:9 @ Masters, treat your slaves the same way. Do not threaten them, for you know that both of you have the same Master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

isv@Ephesians:6:11 @ Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the devil's strategies.

isv@Ephesians:6:13 @ For this reason, take up the whole armor of God so that you may be able to take a stand in that evil day. And when you have done everything you could, you will be able to stand firm.

isv@Ephesians:6:14 @ Stand firm, therefore, having fastened the belt of truth around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

isv@Ephesians:6:15 @ and having put shoes on your feet so that you are ready to proclaim the gospel of peace.

isv@Ephesians:6:17 @ also take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

isv@Ephesians:6:18 @ Pray in the Spirit at all times with every kind of prayer and request there is. For the same reason be alert with every kind of effort and request for all the saints.

isv@Ephesians:6:19 @ Pray also for me, so that, when I open my mouth, the right words will be given to me. Then I will boldly make known the secret of the gospel,

isv@Ephesians:6:21 @ So that you may know what has happened to me and how I am doing, Tychicus, our dear brother and a faithful minister in the Lord, will tell you everything.

isv@Ephesians:6:22 @ I am sending him to you for this very reason, so that you may know how we are doing and that he may encourage your hearts.

isv@Ephesians:6:23 @ May the brothers have peace and love, with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

isv@Philippians:1:2 @ May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!

isv@Philippians:1:6 @ I am convinced of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Christ Jesus.

isv@Philippians:1:7 @ For it is only right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart. Both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, all of you are partners with me in grace.

isv@Philippians:1:9 @ And this is my prayer, that your love will keep on growing more and more in full knowledge and perfect insight,

isv@Philippians:1:10 @ so that you may be able to determine what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ,

isv@Philippians:1:11 @ having been filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

isv@Philippians:1:12 @ Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually turned out for the progress of the gospel.

isv@Philippians:1:13 @ As a result, it has become clear to the whole imperial guard and to everyone else that I am in prison because of Christ.

isv@Philippians:1:16 @ The latter are motivated by love, because they know that I have been appointed for the defense of the gospel.

isv@Philippians:1:17 @ The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition and without sincerity, thinking that they will stir up trouble for me during my imprisonment.

isv@Philippians:1:18 @ But what does it matter? Just this, that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and because of this I rejoice. Yes, I will continue to rejoice,

isv@Philippians:1:19 @ because I know that this will result in my deliverance through your prayers and the help that comes from the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

isv@Philippians:1:20 @ This is according to my eager expectation and hope that I will have nothing to be ashamed of. Instead, because of my boldness Christ will be exalted in my body, now as always, whether I live or die.

isv@Philippians:1:22 @ Now if I go on living in this body, that will produce more results, yet I do not know which I would prefer.

isv@Philippians:1:23 @ Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with Christ, for that is far better.

isv@Philippians:1:24 @ But for your sake it is better that I remain in this body.

isv@Philippians:1:25 @ Since I am convinced of this, I know that I will continue to live and be with all of you for the sake of your progress and joy in the faith.

isv@Philippians:1:27 @ The only thing that matters is that you continue to live as good citizens in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come to see you or whether I stay away, I may hear all about you—that you are standing firm in one spirit, struggling with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

isv@Philippians:1:28 @ and that you are not intimidated by your opponents in any way. This is evidence that they will be destroyed and that you will be saved—and all because of God.

isv@Philippians:1:30 @ You have the same struggle that you saw in me and now hear that I am still having.

isv@Philippians:2:1 @ Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any comfort of love, if there is any fellowship in the Spirit, if there is any compassion and sympathy,

isv@Philippians:2:2 @ then fill me with joy by having the same attitude, sharing the same love, being united in spirit, and keeping one purpose in mind.

isv@Philippians:2:5 @ Have the same attitude among yourselves that was also in Christ Jesus:

isv@Philippians:2:8 @ And lived in all humility,Death on a cross obeying.

isv@Philippians:2:9 @ Now lifted up by God to heaven,A name above all others given,This matchless name possessing.

isv@Philippians:2:11 @ Then every tongue in one accord,Will say that Jesus Christ is Lord,While God the Father praising.

isv@Philippians:2:12 @ And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

isv@Philippians:2:13 @ For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.

isv@Philippians:2:15 @ so that you may be blameless and innocent, God's children without any faults among a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world

isv@Philippians:2:16 @ as you hold out the word of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or work hard in vain.

isv@Philippians:2:19 @ Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I can be encouraged when I learn of your condition.

isv@Philippians:2:22 @ But you know his proven worth—how like a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.

isv@Philippians:2:24 @ Indeed, I am confident in the Lord that I will come to visit you soon.

isv@Philippians:2:26 @ For he has been longing for all of you and is troubled because you heard that he was sick.

isv@Philippians:2:27 @ Indeed, he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have one sorrow on top of another.

isv@Philippians:2:28 @ Therefore, I am especially eager to send him so that you may have the joy of seeing him again, and so that I may feel relieved.

isv@Philippians:2:30 @ For he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.

isv@Philippians:3:2 @ Beware of the dogs! Beware of the evil workers! Beware of the mutilators!

isv@Philippians:3:5 @ Having been circumcised on the eighth day, I am of the nation of Israel, from the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. As far as the law is concerned, I was a Pharisee.

isv@Philippians:3:6 @ As far as zeal is concerned, I was a persecutor of the church. As far as the righteousness that is in the law is concerned, I was perfect.

isv@Philippians:3:7 @ But whatever things were assets to me, these I now consider a loss for the sake of Christ.

isv@Philippians:3:8 @ What is more, I continue to consider all these things as a loss for the sake of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain Christ

isv@Philippians:3:9 @ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through the faithfulness of Christ, the righteousness that comes from God and that depends on faith.

isv@Philippians:3:10 @ I want to know Christ—what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

isv@Philippians:3:12 @ It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by Christ Jesus.

isv@Philippians:3:13 @ Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it. But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

isv@Philippians:3:15 @ Therefore, those of us who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will show you how to think.

isv@Philippians:3:16 @ However, we should live up to what we have achieved so far.

isv@Philippians:3:17 @ Join together in imitating me, brothers, and pay close attention to those who live by the example we have given you.

isv@Philippians:3:18 @ For I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

isv@Philippians:3:20 @ Our citizenship, however, is in heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

isv@Philippians:3:21 @ He will change our humble bodies and make them like his glorious body through the power that enables him to bring everything under his authority.

isv@Philippians:4:2 @ I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to have the same attitude in the Lord.

isv@Philippians:4:4 @ Keep on rejoicing in the Lord at all times. I will say it again: Keep on rejoicing!

isv@Philippians:4:6 @ Never worry about anything, but in every situation let your petitions be made known to God in prayers and requests, with thanksgiving.

isv@Philippians:4:8 @ Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is fair, whatever is pure, whatever is acceptable, whatever is commendable, if there is anything of excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy—keep thinking about these things.

isv@Philippians:4:9 @ Likewise, keep practicing these things: what you have learned, received, heard, and seen in me. Then the God of peace will be with you.

isv@Philippians:4:10 @ Now I rejoice in the Lord greatly, because once again you have shown your concern for me. Of course, you were concerned for me but you did not have an opportunity to show it.

isv@Philippians:4:11 @ I am not saying this because I am in any need, for I have learned to be content in whatever situation I am in.

isv@Philippians:4:12 @ I know how to be humble, and I know how to prosper. In each and every situation I have learned the secret of being full and of going hungry, of having too much and of having too little.

isv@Philippians:4:15 @ You Philippians also know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church participated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except for you.

isv@Philippians:4:17 @ It is not that I am looking for a gift. No, I am looking for the profit that accumulates to your account.

isv@Philippians:4:18 @ I have been paid in full and have more than enough. I am fully supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus what you sent—a fragrant aroma, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

isv@Philippians:4:20 @ Glory belongs to our God and Father forever and ever! Amen.

isv@Colossians:1:2 @ to the holy and faithful brothers in Colossae who are in union with Christ.May grace and peace from God our Father be yours!

isv@Colossians:1:3 @ We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

isv@Colossians:1:4 @ because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints,

isv@Colossians:1:6 @ that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and spreading all over the world, so it has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.

isv@Colossians:1:9 @ For this reason, since the day we heard about this, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of God's will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

isv@Colossians:1:10 @ so that you might live in a manner worthy of the Lord and be fully pleasing to him as you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the full knowledge of God.

isv@Colossians:1:11 @ You are being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might, so that you might patiently endure everything with joy

isv@Colossians:1:12 @ and might thank the Father, who has enabled us to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.

isv@Colossians:1:15 @ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

isv@Colossians:1:16 @ For by him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether they are kings, lords, rulers, or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

isv@Colossians:1:18 @ He is also the head of the body, which is the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself might have first place in everything.

isv@Colossians:1:21 @ You who were once alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

isv@Colossians:1:22 @ he has now reconciled by the death of his physical body so that he might present you holy, blameless, and without fault before him.

isv@Colossians:1:23 @ However, you must remain firmly established and steadfast in the faith, without being moved from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

isv@Colossians:1:24 @ Now I am rejoicing in my sufferings for you and completing in my flesh whatever remains of Christ's sufferings on behalf of his body, which is the church.

isv@Colossians:1:25 @ I became its servant according to God's commission that was given to me for you, so that I might fulfill the ministry of the word of God.

isv@Colossians:1:26 @ This secret was hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints,

isv@Colossians:1:28 @ It is he whom we proclaim as we admonish everyone and teach everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

isv@Colossians:1:29 @ I work hard and struggle to do this according to his energy that powerfully works in me.

isv@Colossians:2:2 @ Because they are united in love, I pray that their hearts may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of the full knowledge of Christ, who is the secret of God.

isv@Colossians:2:4 @ I say this so that no one will mislead you with nice-sounding rhetoric.

isv@Colossians:2:8 @ See to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

isv@Colossians:2:11 @ In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without human hands by stripping off the corrupt nature in the circumcision performed by Christ.

isv@Colossians:2:14 @ having erased the charges that were brought against us with their decrees that were hostile to us. He took those charges away when he nailed them to the cross.

isv@Colossians:2:16 @ Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a new moon, or a Sabbath day.

isv@Colossians:2:18 @ Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by boasting about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without cause by his carnal mind.

isv@Colossians:2:19 @ He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, which is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that comes from God.

isv@Colossians:2:21 @ “Don't handle this! Don't taste or touch that!”

isv@Colossians:2:23 @ These things have the appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion, humility, and harsh treatment of the body, but they have no value against self-indulgence.

isv@Colossians:3:1 @ Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep focusing on the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

isv@Colossians:3:2 @ Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth.

isv@Colossians:3:5 @ So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

isv@Colossians:3:6 @ It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.

isv@Colossians:3:8 @ But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene language from your mouth, and all such sins.

isv@Colossians:3:10 @ and have clothed yourselves with the new man, which is being renewed into full knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

isv@Colossians:3:12 @ Therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.

isv@Colossians:3:17 @ And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

isv@Colossians:3:21 @ Fathers, do not make your children resentful, lest they become discouraged.

isv@Colossians:3:22 @ Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched in order to please them, but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.

isv@Colossians:3:23 @ Whatever you do, work at it wholeheartedly as though you were doing it for the Lord and not merely for people.

isv@Colossians:3:24 @ You know that it is from the Lord that you will receive the inheritance as a reward. It is the Lord Christ whom you are serving!

isv@Colossians:3:25 @ For the person who does what is wrong will be paid back for what he has done, and there is no favoritism.

isv@Colossians:4:1 @ Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, for you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

isv@Colossians:4:3 @ At the same time also pray for us—that God would open before us a door for the word so that we may tell the secret about Christ, for which I have been imprisoned.

isv@Colossians:4:6 @ Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.

isv@Colossians:4:7 @ Tychicus will tell you everything that has happened to me. He is a dear brother, a faithful minister, and a fellow servant in the Lord.

isv@Colossians:4:8 @ I am sending him to you for this very reason, so that you may know how we are doing and that he may encourage your hearts.

isv@Colossians:4:9 @ He is coming with Onesimus, that faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will tell you everything that is happening here.

isv@Colossians:4:12 @ Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings. He is always wrestling in his prayers for you, so that you may stand mature and completely convinced of the entire will of God.

isv@Colossians:4:13 @ For I can testify on his behalf that he has a deep concern for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hieropolis.

isv@Colossians:4:15 @ Give my greetings to the brothers in Laodicea, especially to Nympha and the church that is in her house.

isv@Colossians:4:17 @ Tell Archippus, “See that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.”

isv@1Thessalonians:1:1 @ From Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in union with God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!

isv@1Thessalonians:1:3 @ In the presence of our God and Father, we constantly remember how your faith is active, your love is hard at work, and your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ is enduring.

isv@1Thessalonians:1:4 @ Brothers whom God loves, we know that he has chosen you,

isv@1Thessalonians:1:5 @ for the gospel we brought did not come to you in words only, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. Indeed, you know what kind of people we proved to be while we were with you, acting on your behalf.

isv@1Thessalonians:1:6 @ You became imitators of us and of the Lord. In spite of a great deal of suffering, you welcomed the word with the joy that the Holy Spirit produces.

isv@1Thessalonians:1:9 @ For people keep telling us what kind of welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve a living and true God

isv@1Thessalonians:1:10 @ and to wait for his Son whom he raised from the dead to come back from heaven. This Jesus is the one who rescues us from the coming wrath.

isv@1Thessalonians:2:1 @ For you yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not a waste of time.

isv@1Thessalonians:2:2 @ As you know, we suffered persecution and were mistreated in Philippi. Yet we were encouraged by our God to tell you his gospel in spite of strong opposition.

isv@1Thessalonians:2:4 @ Rather, because we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, we speak as we do, not trying to please people but God, who tests our motives.

isv@1Thessalonians:2:5 @ As you know, we did not come with words of flattery or with a scheme to make money. God is our witness!

isv@1Thessalonians:2:8 @ We cared so deeply for you that we were determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but our very lives. That is how dear you were to us.

isv@1Thessalonians:2:9 @ You remember, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not become a burden to any of you while we proclaimed the gospel of God to you.

isv@1Thessalonians:2:11 @ You know very well that we treated each of you the way a father treats his children.

isv@1Thessalonians:2:13 @ Here is another reason why we constantly give thanks to God: When you received God's word, which you heard from us, you did not accept it as the word of humans but for what it really is—the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

isv@1Thessalonians:2:14 @ For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from the people of your own country as they did from those Jews

isv@1Thessalonians:2:16 @ because they try to keep us from telling the Gentiles how they can be saved. The result is that they are always adding to the measure of their sins. However, wrath has come on them at last!

isv@1Thessalonians:2:17 @ Brothers, although we have been separated from you for a little while—in person but not in heart—we desire with great eagerness to see you again face to face.

isv@1Thessalonians:2:18 @ That is why we wanted to come to you. Certainly I, Paul, time and again wanted to come, but Satan blocked our way.

isv@1Thessalonians:2:19 @ After all, who is our hope, joy, or reason for boasting in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming? It is you, isn't it?

isv@1Thessalonians:3:1 @ Therefore, when we could stand it no longer, we decided to remain alone in Athens

isv@1Thessalonians:3:3 @ so that no one would be shaken by these persecutions. Indeed, you yourselves know that we were destined for this.

isv@1Thessalonians:3:4 @ In fact, when we were with you, we told you ahead of time that we were going to suffer persecution. And as you know, that is what happened.

isv@1Thessalonians:3:5 @ But when I could stand it no longer, I sent Timothy to find out about your faith. I was afraid that the tempter had tempted you in some way, and that our work had been a waste of time.

isv@1Thessalonians:3:6 @ But Timothy has just now come back to us from you and has told us the good news about your faith and love. He also told us that you always have fond memories of us and want to see us, just as we want to see you.

isv@1Thessalonians:3:7 @ That's why, brothers, in all our distress and persecution we have been encouraged about you by your faith.

isv@1Thessalonians:3:9 @ How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we have in God's presence because of you?

isv@1Thessalonians:3:10 @ We pray very hard night and day that we may see you again face to face, so that we may supply whatever is lacking in your faith.

isv@1Thessalonians:3:11 @ Now may our God and Father and our Lord Jesus guide us to you.

isv@1Thessalonians:3:12 @ May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.

isv@1Thessalonians:3:13 @ Then your hearts will be strong in holiness and blameless in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his saints.

isv@1Thessalonians:4:2 @ You know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

isv@1Thessalonians:4:3 @ For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

isv@1Thessalonians:4:12 @ so that you may win the respect of outsiders, and have need of nothing.

isv@1Thessalonians:4:13 @ But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope.

isv@1Thessalonians:4:14 @ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so it is through Jesus that God will bring back with him those who have died.

isv@1Thessalonians:4:15 @ For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have died.

isv@1Thessalonians:5:1 @ Now you do not need to have anything written to you about times and dates, brothers,

isv@1Thessalonians:5:2 @ for you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

isv@1Thessalonians:5:4 @ However, brothers, you are not in the darkness, in order that the day might surprise you like a thief.

isv@1Thessalonians:5:7 @ For people who go to sleep, go to sleep at night; and people who get drunk, get drunk at night.

isv@1Thessalonians:5:8 @ But since we belong to the day, let us be sober. We must put on the breastplate of faith and love, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

isv@1Thessalonians:5:9 @ For God has not destined us for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

isv@1Thessalonians:5:10 @ who died for us in order that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.

isv@1Thessalonians:5:12 @ Brothers, we ask you to show your appreciation for those who work among you, set an example for you in the Lord, and instruct you.

isv@1Thessalonians:5:14 @ We urge you, brothers, to instruct those who are idle, cheer up those who are discouraged, and help those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.

isv@1Thessalonians:5:15 @ Make sure that no one pays back evil for evil. Instead, always pursue what is good for each other and for everyone else.

isv@1Thessalonians:5:21 @ Instead, test everything. Hold on to what is good,

isv@1Thessalonians:5:23 @ May the God of peace himself make you holy in every way. And may your whole being—spirit, soul, and body—be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

isv@2Thessalonians:1:1 @ From Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in union with God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

isv@2Thessalonians:1:2 @ May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!

isv@2Thessalonians:1:3 @ At all times we are obligated to thank God for you, brothers. It is right to do this because your faith is growing all the time and the love of every one of you for each other is increasing.

isv@2Thessalonians:1:9 @ Such people will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction by being separated from the Lord's presence and from his glorious power

isv@2Thessalonians:1:10 @ when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be regarded with wonder on that day by all who have believed—including you, because you believed our testimony.

isv@2Thessalonians:1:11 @ With this in mind, we always pray for you, asking that our God might make you worthy of his calling and that through his power he might help you accomplish every good desire and faithful work.

isv@2Thessalonians:1:12 @ That way the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by him, according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:1 @ Now we ask you, brothers, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,

isv@2Thessalonians:2:2 @ not to be so quickly upset or alarmed when someone claims that we said either by some spirit, conversation, or letter that the Day of the Lord has already come.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:3 @ Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day cannot come unless the rebellion takes place first and the man of sin, who is destined for destruction, is revealed.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:4 @ He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship. As a result, he seats himself in the sanctuary of God and declares himself to be God.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:5 @ Don't you remember that I repeatedly told you about these things when I was still with you?

isv@2Thessalonians:2:6 @ You know what it is that is now holding him back, so that he will be revealed when his time comes.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:7 @ For the secret of this lawlessness is already at work, but only until the person now holding it back gets out of the way.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:8 @ Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the breath of his mouth, rendering him powerless by the manifestation of his coming.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:9 @ The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the power of Satan. He will use every kind of power, including miraculous signs, lying wonders,

isv@2Thessalonians:2:10 @ and every type of evil to deceive those who are dying, those who refused to love the truth that would save them.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:11 @ For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:13 @ At all times we are obligated to thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you to be the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through faith in the truth.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:14 @ With this purpose in mind, he called you through our proclamation of the gospel so that you would obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:15 @ So then, brothers, stand firm, and cling to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by our letter.

isv@2Thessalonians:2:16 @ May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

isv@2Thessalonians:3:1 @ Finally, brothers, pray for us—that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly, and that it may be honored the way it is among you.

isv@2Thessalonians:3:2 @ Also pray that we may be rescued from worthless and evil people, since not everyone holds to the faith.

isv@2Thessalonians:3:4 @ We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.

isv@2Thessalonians:3:6 @ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not living according to the tradition that they received from us.

isv@2Thessalonians:3:7 @ For you yourselves know what you must do to imitate us. We did not live in idleness among you.

isv@2Thessalonians:3:8 @ We did not eat anyone's food without paying for it. Instead, with toil and labor we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.

isv@2Thessalonians:3:9 @ It is not as though we did not have that right, but, we wanted to give you an example to follow.

isv@2Thessalonians:3:10 @ While we were with you, we gave this order: “If anyone doesn't want to work, he shouldn't eat.”

isv@2Thessalonians:3:11 @ We hear that some of you are living in idleness. You are not busy working—you are busy interfering in other people's lives!

isv@2Thessalonians:3:13 @ Brothers, do not get tired of doing what is right.

isv@2Thessalonians:3:14 @ If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of him. Have nothing to do with him so that he will feel ashamed.

isv@2Thessalonians:3:15 @ Yet, don't treat him like an enemy, but warn him like a brother.

isv@2Thessalonians:3:16 @ Now may the Lord of peace give you his peace at all times and in every way. May the Lord be with all of you.

isv@1Timothy:1:2 @ to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord be yours!

isv@1Timothy:1:3 @ When I was on my way to Macedonia, I urged you to stay in Ephesus so that you could instruct certain people to stop teaching false doctrine

isv@1Timothy:1:4 @ and occupying themselves with myths and endless genealogies. These things promote controversies rather than God's ongoing purpose, which involves faith.

isv@1Timothy:1:5 @ The goal of this instruction is love that flows from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith.

isv@1Timothy:1:7 @ They want to be teachers of the law, yet they do not understand either what they are talking about or the things about which they speak so confidently.

isv@1Timothy:1:8 @ Of course, we know that the law is good if a person uses it legitimately,

isv@1Timothy:1:9 @ that is, if he understands that the law is not intended for righteous people but for lawbreakers and rebels, for ungodly people and sinners, for those who are unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers, their mothers, or other people,

isv@1Timothy:1:10 @ for those involved in sexual immorality, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for false witnesses, and for whatever else goes against the healthy teaching

isv@1Timothy:1:11 @ that agrees with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

isv@1Timothy:1:12 @ I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who gives me strength, that he has considered me faithful and has appointed me to his service.

isv@1Timothy:1:14 @ and the grace of our Lord overflowed toward me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

isv@1Timothy:1:16 @ But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the worst sinner, Christ Jesus might demonstrate all of his patience as an example for those who would believe in him for eternal life.

isv@1Timothy:1:18 @ Timothy, my child, I am giving you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following them you may continue to fight the good fight

isv@1Timothy:1:20 @ These include Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme.

isv@1Timothy:2:2 @ for kings, and for everyone who has authority, so that we might lead a quiet and peaceful life with all godliness and dignity.

isv@1Timothy:2:5 @ There is one God. There is also one mediator between God and human beings—a human, Christ Jesus.

isv@1Timothy:2:6 @ He gave himself as a ransom for all, a fact that was acknowledged at the right time.

isv@1Timothy:2:8 @ Therefore, I want the men to offer prayers in every place, lifting up holy hands without being angry or argumentative.

isv@1Timothy:2:9 @ Women, for their part, should display their beauty by dressing modestly and decently in appropriate clothes, not by braiding their hair or by wearing gold, pearls, or expensive clothes,

isv@1Timothy:3:3 @ He must not drink excessively or be a violent person, but instead be gentle. He must not be argumentative or a lover of money.

isv@1Timothy:3:6 @ He must not be a recent convert, or he might become arrogant and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

isv@1Timothy:3:13 @ Those deacons who serve well gain an excellent reputation for themselves and will have great assurance in their faith in Christ Jesus.

isv@1Timothy:3:15 @ in case I am delayed so that you may know how one is to behave in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

isv@1Timothy:3:16 @ By common confession, the secret of our godly worship is great: In flesh was he revealed to sight,Kept righteous by the Spirit's might,Adored by angels singing. To nations was he manifest,Believing souls found peace and rest,Our Lord in heaven reigning!

isv@1Timothy:4:1 @ Now the Spirit says clearly that in the last times some people will abandon the faith by following deceitful spirits, the teachings of demons,

isv@1Timothy:4:3 @ They will try to stop people from marrying and from eating certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

isv@1Timothy:4:4 @ For everything God created is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

isv@1Timothy:4:6 @ If you continue to point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the healthy teaching that you have followed closely.

isv@1Timothy:4:10 @ To this end we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, that is, of those who believe.

isv@1Timothy:4:13 @ Until I arrive, concentrate on the public reading of Scripture, on exhorting, and on teaching.

isv@1Timothy:4:14 @ Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy, accompanied by the laying on of the elders’ hands.

isv@1Timothy:4:15 @ Think on these things. Devote your life to them so that everyone can see your progress.

isv@1Timothy:4:16 @ Pay close attention to your life and your teaching. Persevere in these things, for if you do this, you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

isv@1Timothy:5:1 @ Never speak harshly to an older man, but appeal to him as if he were your father. Treat younger men like brothers,

isv@1Timothy:5:7 @ Continue to give these instructions so that they may be blameless.

isv@1Timothy:5:8 @ If anyone does not take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

isv@1Timothy:5:9 @ A widow may be put on the widows' list if she is at least sixty years old and has been the wife of one husband.

isv@1Timothy:5:11 @ But do not include younger widows on your list. For whenever their natural desires cause them to lose their devotion to Christ, they want to remarry.

isv@1Timothy:5:12 @ They receive condemnation because they have set aside their previous pledge.

isv@1Timothy:5:13 @ At the same time, they also learn how to be lazy while going from house to house. Not only this, but they even become gossips and keep busy by interfering in other people's lives, saying things they should not say.

isv@1Timothy:5:15 @ For some widows have already turned away to follow Satan.

isv@1Timothy:5:16 @ If any woman is a believer and has relatives who are widows, she should help them. The church should not be burdened so that it can help those who really are widows.

isv@1Timothy:5:17 @ Elders who handle their duties well should be considered worthy of double compensation, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

isv@1Timothy:5:19 @ Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.

isv@1Timothy:5:20 @ As for those who keep on sinning, rebuke them in front of everyone so that the others will also be afraid.

isv@1Timothy:5:22 @ Do not ordain anyone hastily. Do not participate in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

isv@1Timothy:5:23 @ Stop drinking only water, but use a little wine for your stomach because of your frequent illnesses.

isv@1Timothy:5:25 @ In the same way, good works are obvious, and those that are not cannot remain hidden.

isv@1Timothy:6:1 @ All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their own masters as deserving of the highest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be discredited.

isv@1Timothy:6:4 @ he is a conceited person and does not understand anything. He has an unhealthy craving for arguments and debates. This produces jealousy, rivalry, slander, evil suspicions,

isv@1Timothy:6:5 @ and incessant conflict between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth. They think that godliness is a way to make a profit.

isv@1Timothy:6:6 @ Of course, godliness with contentment does bring a great profit.

isv@1Timothy:6:8 @ So as long as we have food and clothes, we will be satisfied with these.

isv@1Timothy:6:9 @ But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.

isv@1Timothy:6:13 @ In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and in the sight of Christ Jesus, who gave a good testimony before Pontius Pilate, I solemnly charge you

isv@1Timothy:6:15 @ At the right time God will make him known. He is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

isv@1Timothy:6:19 @ By doing this they store up a treasure for themselves that is a good foundation for the future, so that they can take hold of the life that is real.

isv@1Timothy:6:20 @ Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the pointless discussions and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.

isv@2Timothy:1:1 @ From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

isv@2Timothy:1:2 @ to Timothy, my dear child. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord be yours!

isv@2Timothy:1:4 @ recalling your tears and longing to see you so that I can be filled with joy.

isv@2Timothy:1:5 @ I am reminded of your sincere faith, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that this faith also lives in you.

isv@2Timothy:1:6 @ For this reason, I am reminding you to fan into flames the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands.

isv@2Timothy:1:9 @ He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our own works but according to his own purpose and the grace that was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.

isv@2Timothy:1:10 @ Now, however, it has been revealed through the coming of our Savior Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and through the gospel has brought life and release from death into full view.

isv@2Timothy:1:12 @ That is why I suffer as I do. However, I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I'm convinced that he is able to protect what he has entrusted to me until that day.

isv@2Timothy:1:13 @ Hold on to the pattern of healthy teachings that you have heard from me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

isv@2Timothy:1:14 @ With the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us, protect the good treasure that has been entrusted to you.

isv@2Timothy:1:15 @ You know that everyone in Asia has abandoned me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

isv@2Timothy:1:16 @ May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, for he often took care of me and was not ashamed that I was a prisoner.

isv@2Timothy:1:18 @ May the Lord grant that he finds mercy from the Lord on that day. You know very well how much he assisted me in Ephesus.

isv@2Timothy:2:1 @ As for you, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

isv@2Timothy:2:2 @ What you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.

isv@2Timothy:2:4 @ No one serving in the military gets mixed up in civilian matters, for his aim is to please his commanding officer.

isv@2Timothy:2:5 @ Moreover, no one who is an athlete wins a prize unless he competes according to the rules.

isv@2Timothy:2:7 @ Think about what I am saying. The Lord will help you to understand all these things.

isv@2Timothy:2:8 @ Meditate on Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead and is a descendant of David. This is the gospel I tell others.

isv@2Timothy:2:10 @ For that reason, I endure everything for the sake of those who have been chosen so that they, too, may receive the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, along with eternal glory.

isv@2Timothy:2:17 @ and what they say will spread everywhere like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that.

isv@2Timothy:2:18 @ They have abandoned the truth by claiming that the resurrection has already taken place, and so they destroy the faith of others.

isv@2Timothy:2:19 @ However, God's solid foundation still stands. It has this inscription on it: “The Lord knows those who belong to him,” and “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from evil.”

isv@2Timothy:2:21 @ Therefore, if anyone stops associating with these people, he will become a special utensil, set apart for the owner's use, prepared for every good work.

isv@2Timothy:2:26 @ so that they might escape from the devil's snare, even though they've been held captive by him to do his will.

isv@2Timothy:3:1 @ You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come.

isv@2Timothy:3:2 @ People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

isv@2Timothy:3:3 @ unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,

isv@2Timothy:3:4 @ traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

isv@2Timothy:3:7 @ These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth.

isv@2Timothy:3:10 @ But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

isv@2Timothy:3:11 @ and my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

isv@2Timothy:3:14 @ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it.

isv@2Timothy:3:15 @ From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to give you the wisdom you need for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

isv@2Timothy:3:16 @ All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

isv@2Timothy:3:17 @ so that the man of God may be complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work.

isv@2Timothy:4:2 @ to proclaim the message. Be ready to do this whether or not the time is convenient. Refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach.

isv@2Timothy:4:3 @ For the time will come when people will not put up with healthy doctrine but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their own needs.

isv@2Timothy:4:8 @ The victor's crown of righteousness is now waiting for me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who eagerly wait for his appearing.

isv@2Timothy:4:10 @ For Demas, having fallen in love with this present world, has abandoned me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

isv@2Timothy:4:13 @ When you come, bring the coat I left with Carpus in Troas, as well as the scrolls and especially the parchments.

isv@2Timothy:4:14 @ Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he did.

isv@2Timothy:4:15 @ You, too, must watch out for him, for he violently opposed our message.

isv@2Timothy:4:16 @ At my first trial no one came to my defense. Everyone abandoned me. May it not be held against them!

isv@2Timothy:4:17 @ However, the Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles could hear it. I was rescued out of a lion's mouth.

isv@2Timothy:4:18 @ The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will take me safely to his heavenly kingdom. Glory belongs to him forever and ever! Amen.

isv@Titus:1:1 @ From Paul, a servant of God, and yet an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and the full knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

isv@Titus:1:2 @ which is based on the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began.

isv@Titus:1:3 @ At the right time he revealed his message through the proclamation that was entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.

isv@Titus:1:4 @ To Titus, a genuine child in the faith we share. May grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior be yours!

isv@Titus:1:5 @ The reason I left you in Crete was to complete what still needed to be done and to appoint elders in every city, as I myself commanded you.

isv@Titus:1:7 @ Because an overseer is God's administrator, he must be blameless. He must not be arrogant or irritable. He must not drink too much, be a violent person, or use shameful ways to make money.

isv@Titus:1:9 @ He must be devoted to the trustworthy message that is in agreement with our teaching, so that he may be able to encourage others with healthy doctrine and refute those who oppose it.

isv@Titus:1:11 @ They must be silenced, because they are the kind of people who ruin whole families by teaching what they should not teach in order to make money in a shameful way.

isv@Titus:1:12 @ One of their very own prophets said, “Liars ever, men of Crete,Savage brutes that live to eat.”

isv@Titus:1:13 @ That testimony is true. For this reason, refute them sharply so that they may become healthy in the faith

isv@Titus:1:14 @ and not pay attention to Jewish myths or commands given by people who reject the truth.

isv@Titus:2:1 @ But as for you, teach what is consistent with healthy doctrine.

isv@Titus:2:8 @ Use wholesome speech that cannot be condemned. Then any opponent will be ashamed because he cannot say anything bad about us.

isv@Titus:2:10 @ or steal from them. Instead, they are to show complete and perfect loyalty, so that in every way they may make the teaching about God our Savior more attractive.

isv@Titus:2:11 @ For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.

isv@Titus:2:12 @ It trains us to renounce ungodly living and worldly passions so that we might live sensible, honest, and godly lives in the present world

isv@Titus:2:13 @ as we wait for the blessed hope and the glorious appearance of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

isv@Titus:2:14 @ He gave himself for us to set us free from every wrong and to cleanse us so that we could be his special people who are enthusiastic about good works.

isv@Titus:3:2 @ They are not to insult anyone or be argumentative. Instead, they are to be gentle and show perfect courtesy to everyone.

isv@Titus:3:3 @ After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.

isv@Titus:3:5 @ ‘Twas not for deeds that we had done, But by his steadfast love alone, He saved us through a second birth,Renewed us by the Spirit's work,

isv@Titus:3:8 @ This saying is trustworthy. I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have put their faith in God may devote themselves to good works. These things are good and helpful to other people.

isv@Titus:3:11 @ For you know that a person like this is corrupt and keeps on sinning, being self-condemned.

isv@Titus:3:12 @ As soon as I send Artemas to you, or perhaps Tychicus, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

isv@Titus:3:13 @ Do all you can to send Zenas the expert in the law and Apollos on their way, and see that they have everything they need.

isv@Philemon:1:3 @ May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!

isv@Philemon:1:5 @ because I keep hearing about your love and the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.

isv@Philemon:1:6 @ I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every blessing that is ours in Christ.

isv@Philemon:1:8 @ For this reason, although in Christ I have complete freedom to order you to do what is proper,

isv@Philemon:1:10 @ appeal to you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.

isv@Philemon:1:12 @ I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.

isv@Philemon:1:13 @ I wanted to keep him with me so that he could serve me in your place during my imprisonment for the gospel.

isv@Philemon:1:14 @ Yet I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be something forced, but voluntary.

isv@Philemon:1:15 @ Perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you could have him back forever,

isv@Philemon:1:19 @ I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand: I will repay it. (I will not mention to you that you owe me your very life.)

isv@Philemon:1:21 @ Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you because I know that you will do even more than I ask.

isv@Hebrews:1:1 @ God, having spoken in former times in fragmentary and varied fashion to our forefathers by the prophets,

isv@Hebrews:1:3 @ He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact likeness of his being, and he holds everything together by his powerful word. After he had provided a cleansing from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Highest Majesty

isv@Hebrews:1:5 @ For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son. Today I have become your Father”? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”?

isv@Hebrews:1:9 @ You have loved righteousnessand hated wickedness. That is why God, your God,anointed you rather than your companionswith the oil of gladness.”

isv@Hebrews:1:10 @ And, “In the beginning, Lord,you laid the foundation of the earth,and the heavens are the work of your hands.

isv@Hebrews:1:13 @ But to which of the angels did he ever say, “Sit at my right handuntil I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

isv@Hebrews:1:14 @ All of them are spirits on a divine mission, sent to serve those who are about to inherit salvation, aren't they?

isv@Hebrews:2:1 @ For this reason we must pay closer attention to the things we have heard, or we may drift away.

isv@Hebrews:2:2 @ For if the message spoken by angels was reliable, and every violation and act of disobedience received its just punishment,

isv@Hebrews:2:3 @ how will we escape if we neglect a salvation as great as this? It was first proclaimed by the Lord himself, and then it was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

isv@Hebrews:2:6 @ Instead, someone has declared somewhere, “What is man that you should remember him,or the son of man that you should care for him?

isv@Hebrews:2:8 @ and put everything under his feet.”Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him.

isv@Hebrews:2:9 @ But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.

isv@Hebrews:2:10 @ In bringing many children to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering.

isv@Hebrews:2:11 @ For both the one who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified all have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers

isv@Hebrews:2:12 @ when he says, “I will announce your name to my brothers. I will praise you within the congregation.”

isv@Hebrews:2:14 @ Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the devil)

isv@Hebrews:2:15 @ and might free those who were slaves all their lives because they were terrified by death.

isv@Hebrews:2:16 @ For it is clear that he did not come to help angels. No, he came to help Abraham's descendants.

isv@Hebrews:2:17 @ Thus he had to become like his brothers in every way, so that he could be a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God and could atone for the people's sins.

isv@Hebrews:3:3 @ For he is worthy of greater glory than Moses in the same way that the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

isv@Hebrews:3:5 @ Moses was faithful in all God's household as a servant who was to testify to what would be said later,

isv@Hebrews:3:6 @ but Christ was faithful as the Son in charge of God's household, and we are his household if we hold on to our courage and the hope that we boast about.

isv@Hebrews:3:10 @ for forty years. That is why I was indignant with that generation and said,‘They are always going astray in their hearts,and they have not known my ways.’

isv@Hebrews:3:11 @ So in my anger I swore a solemn oaththat they would never enter my rest.”

isv@Hebrews:3:12 @ See to it, my brothers, that no evil, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the living God.

isv@Hebrews:3:13 @ Instead, continue to encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

isv@Hebrews:3:18 @ And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed him?

isv@Hebrews:3:19 @ So we see that they were unable to enter because of their unbelief.

isv@Hebrews:4:3 @ For we who have believed are entering that rest, just as he has said, “So in my anger I swore a solemn oaththat they would never enter my rest,”even though his works had been finished since the foundation of the world.

isv@Hebrews:4:6 @ Therefore, since it is still true that some will enter it, and since those who once heard the good news failed to enter it because of their disobedience,

isv@Hebrews:4:8 @ For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken later about another day.

isv@Hebrews:4:9 @ There remains, therefore, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

isv@Hebrews:4:11 @ Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fail by following their example of disobedience.

isv@Hebrews:4:13 @ No creature can hide from him, but all are naked and helpless before the eyes of the one to whom we must give a word of explanation.

isv@Hebrews:4:14 @ Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us continue to hold on to our confession.

isv@Hebrews:4:15 @ For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

isv@Hebrews:4:16 @ So let us keep on coming with boldness to the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

isv@Hebrews:5:1 @ For every high priest selected from among men is appointed to officiate on their behalf in matters relating to God, that is, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

isv@Hebrews:5:3 @ For that reason he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as for those of the people.

isv@Hebrews:5:5 @ In the same way, Christ did not take upon himself the glory of being a high priest. No, it was God who said to him, “You are my Son.Today I have become your Father.”

isv@Hebrews:5:7 @ In the days of his flesh, he offered up prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his devotion to God.

isv@Hebrews:5:9 @ and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

isv@Hebrews:5:10 @ having been designated by God to be a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

isv@Hebrews:5:14 @ But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

isv@Hebrews:6:1 @ Therefore, leaving behind the elementary teachings about Christ, let us continue to be carried along to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, faith toward God,

isv@Hebrews:6:7 @ For when the ground soaks up rain that often falls on it and continues producing vegetation useful to those for whom it is cultivated, it receives a blessing from God.

isv@Hebrews:6:9 @ Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case, things that point to salvation.

isv@Hebrews:6:12 @ Then, instead of being lazy, you will become imitators of those who are inheriting the promises through faith and patience.

isv@Hebrews:6:13 @ For when God made his promise to Abraham, he swore an oath by himself, since he had no one greater to swear by.

isv@Hebrews:6:15 @ And so he obtained the promise, because he patiently waited for it.

isv@Hebrews:6:16 @ For people swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath given as confirmation puts an end to all argument.

isv@Hebrews:6:17 @ In the same way, when God wanted to make the unchangeable character of his purpose perfectly clear to the heirs of his promise, he guaranteed it with an oath,

isv@Hebrews:6:18 @ so that by these two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to prove false, we who have taken refuge in him might have a strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

isv@Hebrews:7:2 @ To him Abraham gave a tenth of everything. In the first place, his name means “king of righteousness,” and then he is also king of Salem, that is, “king of peace.”

isv@Hebrews:7:3 @ He has no father, mother, or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life. Like the Son of God, he continues to be a priest forever.

isv@Hebrews:7:4 @ Just look at how great this man was! Even Abraham—the patriarch himself—gave him a tenth of what he had captured!

isv@Hebrews:7:5 @ The descendants of Levi who accept the priesthood have a commandment in the law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their own brothers, even though they are also descendants of Abraham.

isv@Hebrews:7:7 @ It is beyond dispute that the less important person is blessed by the more important person.

isv@Hebrews:7:8 @ The men who collect the tenth die, but we are told that he keeps on living.

isv@Hebrews:7:9 @ One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham,

isv@Hebrews:7:11 @ Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood—for on this basis the people received the law—what further need would there be to speak of appointing another kind of priest according to the order of Melchizedek, not one according to the order of Aaron?

isv@Hebrews:7:13 @ For the person we are talking about belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar.

isv@Hebrews:7:14 @ For it is obvious that our Lord was a descendant of Judah, and Moses said nothing about priests coming from that tribe.

isv@Hebrews:7:15 @ This point is even more obvious in that another priest who is like Melchizedek has appeared

isv@Hebrews:7:16 @ who was appointed to be a priest, not on the basis of a regulation concerning his ancestry, but rather on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.

isv@Hebrews:7:18 @ Indeed, the cancellation of the former regulation has occurred because it was weak and ineffective

isv@Hebrews:7:20 @ Now none of this happened without an oath. Others became priests without any oath,

isv@Hebrews:7:21 @ but Jesus became a priest with an oath when God said to him, “The Lord has taken an oathand will not change his mind. You are a priest forever.”

isv@Hebrews:7:23 @ There have been many priests, since they have been prevented by death from continuing in office.

isv@Hebrews:7:28 @ For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

isv@Hebrews:8:1 @ Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we do have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven

isv@Hebrews:8:5 @ They serve in a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of the heavenly one. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”

isv@Hebrews:8:6 @ However, Jesus has now obtained a ministry that is as superior to theirs as the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.

isv@Hebrews:8:9 @ It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors at the timewhen I took them by the handand brought them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant,I ignored them, declares the Lord.

isv@Hebrews:8:10 @ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israelafter those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their mindsand write them on their hearts. I will be their God,and they will be my people.

isv@Hebrews:8:13 @ In speaking of a “new” covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

isv@Hebrews:9:1 @ Now even first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

isv@Hebrews:9:4 @ which had the gold altar for incense and the ark of the covenant completely covered with gold. In it were the gold jar holding the manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the tablets of the covenant.

isv@Hebrews:9:5 @ Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of atonement. (We cannot discuss these things in detail now.)

isv@Hebrews:9:8 @ The Holy Spirit was indicating by this that the way into the Holy of Holies had not yet been disclosed as long as the first part of the tabernacle was still standing.

isv@Hebrews:9:9 @ This is an illustration of the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered could not make the conscience of the worshiper perfect,

isv@Hebrews:9:11 @ But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that was not made by human hands and that is not a part of this creation.

isv@Hebrews:9:12 @ Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he went into the Holy of Holies once for all and secured our eternal redemption.

isv@Hebrews:9:13 @ For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are unclean purifies them with physical cleansing,

isv@Hebrews:9:14 @ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works so that we may serve the living God!

isv@Hebrews:9:15 @ This is why he is the mediator of a new covenant; so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance promised them, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the offenses committed under the first covenant.

isv@Hebrews:9:16 @ For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be established.

isv@Hebrews:9:19 @ For after every commandment in the law had been spoken to all the people by Moses, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with some water, scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

isv@Hebrews:9:20 @ saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God ordained for you.”

isv@Hebrews:9:25 @ Nor did he go into heaven to sacrifice himself again and again, the way the high priest goes into the Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

isv@Hebrews:9:26 @ Then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now, at the end of the ages, he has appeared once for all to remove sin by his sacrifice.

isv@Hebrews:9:27 @ Indeed, just as people are appointed to die once and after that to be judged,

isv@Hebrews:9:28 @ so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people. And he will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly wait for him.

isv@Hebrews:10:1 @ For the law, being only a reflection of the blessings to come and not their substance, can never, by the same sacrifices repeatedly offered year after year, make those who come near perfect.

isv@Hebrews:10:4 @ for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

isv@Hebrews:10:11 @ Day after day every priest stands and repeatedly offers the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.

isv@Hebrews:10:12 @ But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, “he sat down at the right hand of God.”

isv@Hebrews:10:13 @ Since that time, he has been waiting for his enemies to be made a footstool for his feet.

isv@Hebrews:10:16 @ “This is the covenant that I will make with themafter those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their heartsand will write them on their minds,”

isv@Hebrews:10:20 @ the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),

isv@Hebrews:10:21 @ and since we have a great high priest over the household of God,

isv@Hebrews:10:22 @ let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in full assurance of faith, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

isv@Hebrews:10:23 @ Let us continue to hold firmly to the hope that we confess without wavering, for the one who made the promise is faithful.

isv@Hebrews:10:24 @ And let us continue to consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

isv@Hebrews:10:27 @ but only a terrifying prospect of judgment and a raging fire that will consume the enemies of God

isv@Hebrews:10:28 @ Anyone who violates the law of Moses dies without mercy “on the testimony of two or three witnesses.”

isv@Hebrews:10:29 @ How much more severe a punishment do you think that person deserves who tramples on God's Son, treats as common the blood of the covenant by which it was sanctified, and insults the Spirit of grace?

isv@Hebrews:10:33 @ At times you were made a public spectacle through insults and persecutions, while at other times you associated with people who were treated this way.

isv@Hebrews:10:34 @ For you sympathized with the prisoners and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, because you know that you have a better and more permanent possession.

isv@Hebrews:10:35 @ So do not throw away your confidence, since it holds a great reward for you.

isv@Hebrews:10:36 @ For you need endurance, so that after you have done God's will you can receive what he has promised.

isv@Hebrews:11:3 @ By faith we understand that the universe was prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are invisible.

isv@Hebrews:11:5 @ By faith Enoch was taken away without experiencing death. He could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he won approval as one who pleased God.

isv@Hebrews:11:6 @ Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently search for him.

isv@Hebrews:11:7 @ By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, reverently prepared an ark to save his family, and by it he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

isv@Hebrews:11:8 @ By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.

isv@Hebrews:11:10 @ For he was waiting for the city with permanent foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

isv@Hebrews:11:11 @ By faith Sarah, even though she was old and barren, received the strength to conceive, because she was convinced that the one who had made the promise was faithful.

isv@Hebrews:11:13 @ All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

isv@Hebrews:11:14 @ For people who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.

isv@Hebrews:11:15 @ If they had been thinking about what they had left behind, they would have had an opportunity to go back.

isv@Hebrews:11:16 @ Instead, they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

isv@Hebrews:11:18 @ about whom it had been said, “It is through Isaac that descendants will be named for you.”

isv@Hebrews:11:19 @ He was certain that God could raise people from the dead, and figuratively speaking he did get him back in this way.

isv@Hebrews:11:23 @ By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after he was born, because they saw that he was a beautiful child and were not afraid of the king's order.

isv@Hebrews:11:25 @ because he preferred being mistreated with God's people to enjoying the pleasures of sin for a short time.

isv@Hebrews:11:26 @ He thought that being insulted for the sake of Christ was of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.

isv@Hebrews:11:32 @ And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell you about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets.

isv@Hebrews:11:34 @ put out raging fires, escaped death by the sword, found strength in weakness, became powerful in battle, and routed foreign armies.

isv@Hebrews:11:35 @ Women received back their dead through a resurrection. Others were brutally tortured but refused to accept release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

isv@Hebrews:11:37 @ They were stoned to death, sawed in half, and killed with swords. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins. They were needy, oppressed, and mistreated.

isv@Hebrews:11:39 @ All these people won approval for their faith but did not receive what was promised,

isv@Hebrews:11:40 @ since God had planned something better for us so that they would not become perfect without us.

isv@Hebrews:12:1 @ Therefore, having so vast a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, and throwing off everything that hinders us and especially the sin that so easily entangles us, let us keep running with endurance the race set before us,

isv@Hebrews:12:2 @ looking off to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of the faith, who, in view of the joy set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

isv@Hebrews:12:3 @ Think about the one who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you may not become tired and give up.

isv@Hebrews:12:5 @ You have forgotten the encouragement that is addressed to you as sons: “My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's disciplineor give up when you are corrected by him.

isv@Hebrews:12:7 @ What you endure is for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline?

isv@Hebrews:12:8 @ Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not his sons.

isv@Hebrews:12:9 @ Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who used to discipline us, and we respected them for it. We should even more submit to the Father of our spirits and live, shouldn't we?

isv@Hebrews:12:10 @ For a short time they disciplined us as they thought best, but he does it for our good, so that we may share in his holiness.

isv@Hebrews:12:11 @ No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, for those who have been trained by it, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.

isv@Hebrews:12:13 @ and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not become worse but rather be healed.

isv@Hebrews:12:15 @ See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up and causes you trouble, or many of you will become defiled.

isv@Hebrews:12:17 @ For you know that afterwards, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he could not find any opportunity to repent, even though he begged for it with tears.

isv@Hebrews:12:18 @ For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, to gloom,

isv@Hebrews:12:19 @ to a trumpet's blast, or to a voice that made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them.

isv@Hebrews:12:20 @ For they could not endure the command that was given: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”

isv@Hebrews:12:21 @ Indeed, the sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”

isv@Hebrews:12:22 @ Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels joyfully gathered together,

isv@Hebrews:12:24 @ to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel's.

isv@Hebrews:12:25 @ See to it that you do not ignore the one who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they ignored the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we turn away from the one who is from heaven!

isv@Hebrews:12:26 @ At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven.”

isv@Hebrews:12:27 @ The expression “once more” signifies the removal of what can be shaken, that is, what he has made, so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

isv@Hebrews:12:28 @ Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and worship God in reverence and fear in a way that pleases him.

isv@Hebrews:13:3 @ Continue to remember those in prison as if you were in prison with them, as well as those who are mistreated, since they also are only mortal.

isv@Hebrews:13:5 @ Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for God has said, “I will never leave you or abandon you.”

isv@Hebrews:13:6 @ Hence we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?”

isv@Hebrews:13:7 @ Remember your leaders, those who have spoken God's word to you. Think about the impact of their lives, and imitate their faith.

isv@Hebrews:13:9 @ Stop being carried away by all kinds of unusual teachings, for it is good that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by food laws that have never helped those who follow them.

isv@Hebrews:13:10 @ We have an altar, and those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat at it.

isv@Hebrews:13:12 @ That is why Jesus, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood, also suffered outside the city gate.

isv@Hebrews:13:14 @ For here we have no permanent city but are looking for the one that is coming.

isv@Hebrews:13:15 @ Therefore, through him let us always bring God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

isv@Hebrews:13:17 @ Continue to obey your leaders and to be submissive to them, for they watch over your souls as men who will have to give a word of explanation. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be harmful to you.

isv@Hebrews:13:18 @ Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.

isv@Hebrews:13:19 @ I especially ask you to do this so that I may be brought back to you sooner.

isv@Hebrews:13:20 @ Now may the God of peace, who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep,

isv@Hebrews:13:21 @ equip you with everything good to do his will, accomplishing in us what pleases him through Jesus Christ. To him be glory forever and ever! Amen.

isv@Hebrews:13:22 @ I urge you, brothers, to listen patiently to my encouraging message, for I have written you a short letter.

isv@Hebrews:13:23 @ You should know that our brother Timothy has been set free. If he comes soon, he will be with me when I see you.

isv@James:1:3 @ because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

isv@James:1:4 @ But you must let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

isv@James:1:6 @ But he must ask in faith, without any doubts, for the one who has doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

isv@James:1:9 @ A brother of low status should boast in his exalted status,

isv@James:1:11 @ For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower in it drops off, and its beauty is gone. That is how the rich person will fade away in his pursuits.

isv@James:1:12 @ How blessed is the man who endures temptation! When he has passed the test, he will receive the victor's crown of life that God has promised to those who keep on loving him.

isv@James:1:15 @ When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

isv@James:1:17 @ Every generous act of giving and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father who made the heavenly lights, in whom there is no inconsistency or shifting shadow.

isv@James:1:18 @ In accordance with his will he made us his children by the word of truth, so that we might become the most important of his creatures.

isv@James:1:21 @ Therefore, rid yourselves of everything impure and every expression of wickedness, and with a gentle spirit welcome the word planted in you that can save your souls.

isv@James:1:23 @ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at himself in a mirror.

isv@James:1:24 @ For he studies himself carefully and then goes off and immediately forgets what he looks like.

isv@James:1:25 @ But the one who looks at the perfect law of freedom and remains committed to it—thus proving that he is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of what it requires—will be blessed in what he does.

isv@James:1:26 @ If anyone thinks that he is religious and does not bridle his tongue, but instead deceives his own heart, his religion is worthless.

isv@James:1:27 @ A religion that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

isv@James:2:3 @ If you give special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Please take this seat,” but you say to the poor man, “Stand over there” or “Sit on the floor at my feet,”

isv@James:2:5 @ Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him, has he not?

isv@James:2:6 @ But you have humiliated the man who is poor. Are not rich people the ones who oppress you and drag you into court?

isv@James:2:9 @ But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and will be convicted by the law as violators.

isv@James:2:11 @ For the one who said, “Never commit adultery,” also said, “Never murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but you murder, you become a violator of the law.

isv@James:2:14 @ What good does it do, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not have any works? This kind of faith cannot save him, can it?

isv@James:2:16 @ and one of you tells them, “Go in peace! Stay warm and eat heartily.” If you do not provide for their bodily needs, what good does it do?

isv@James:2:19 @ You believe that there is one God. That's fine! Even the demons believe that and tremble with fear.

isv@James:2:20 @ Do you want proof, you foolish person, that faith without works is worthless?

isv@James:2:22 @ You see that his faith was active with his works, and by his works faith was made complete.

isv@James:2:23 @ And so the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” And so he was called God's friend.

isv@James:2:24 @ You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

isv@James:3:1 @ Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more severely.

isv@James:3:4 @ And look at ships! They are so big that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are steered wherever the pilot pleases by a tiny rudder.

isv@James:3:5 @ In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it can boast of great achievements. A huge forest can be set on fire by a little flame.

isv@James:3:6 @ The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. Placed among the parts of our bodies, the tongue contaminates the whole body and sets on fire the course of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.

isv@James:3:7 @ For all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures can be or have been tamed by the human species,

isv@James:3:9 @ With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in God's likeness.

isv@James:3:11 @ A spring cannot pour both fresh and brackish water from the same opening, can it?

isv@James:3:12 @ My brothers, a fig tree cannot produce olives, nor a grapevine figs, can it? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

isv@James:3:13 @ Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good life that his works are done in humility born of wisdom.

isv@James:3:15 @ That kind of wisdom does not come from above. No, it is worldly, self-centered, and demonic.

isv@James:3:17 @ However, the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of compassion and good fruits, and without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

isv@James:4:1 @ Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

isv@James:4:4 @ You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.

isv@James:4:5 @ Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God caused to live in us jealously yearns for us?

isv@James:4:14 @ You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

isv@James:4:15 @ Instead you should say, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live—and do this or that.”

isv@James:4:17 @ Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin.

isv@James:5:1 @ Now listen, you rich people! Cry and moan over the miseries that are overtaking you.

isv@James:5:2 @ Your riches are rotten, your clothes have been eaten by moths,

isv@James:5:3 @ your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasures in these last days.

isv@James:5:4 @ Look! The wages that you kept back from the workers who harvested your fields are shouting out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.

isv@James:5:5 @ You have lived in luxury and pleasure on earth. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

isv@James:5:7 @ So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop from his land, being patient with it until it receives the fall and the spring rains.

isv@James:5:8 @ You, too, must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.

isv@James:5:9 @ Do not complain about each other, brothers, or you will be condemned. Look! The Judge is standing at the door!

isv@James:5:10 @ As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.

isv@James:5:11 @ We consider those who endured to be blessed. You have heard about Job's endurance and have seen the purpose of the Lord—that the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

isv@James:5:12 @ Above all, brothers, do not swear oaths by heaven, by earth, or by any other object. Instead, let your “Yes” mean yes and your “No” mean no, lest you fall under condemnation.

isv@James:5:16 @ Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sins to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

isv@James:5:20 @ you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his wrong path will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

isv@1Peter:1:1 @ From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

isv@1Peter:1:2 @ the people chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through the sanctifying work of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with his blood. May grace and peace be yours in abundance!

isv@1Peter:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Because of his great mercy he has given us a new birth to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

isv@1Peter:1:4 @ and to an inheritance kept in heaven for you that can't be destroyed, corrupted, or changed.

isv@1Peter:1:5 @ Through faith you are being protected by God's power for a salvation that is ready to be revealed at the end of time.

isv@1Peter:1:6 @ In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you have to suffer various kinds of trials,

isv@1Peter:1:7 @ so that the genuineness of your faith, which is more valuable than gold that perishes when it is tested by fire, may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

isv@1Peter:1:9 @ because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

isv@1Peter:1:10 @ Even the prophets, who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours, carefully researched and investigated this salvation.

isv@1Peter:1:11 @ They tried to find out what era or specific time the Spirit of Christ in them kept referring to when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

isv@1Peter:1:12 @ It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you in regard to the things that have now been announced to you by those who brought you the good news through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. These are things that even the angels desire to look into.

isv@1Peter:1:14 @ As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that you once had in your ignorance.

isv@1Peter:1:17 @ If you call “Father” the one who judges everyone impartially according to what he has done, you must live in the fear of the Lord as long as you are strangers here.

isv@1Peter:1:18 @ For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors,

isv@1Peter:1:19 @ but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or defect.

isv@1Peter:1:20 @ On the one hand, he was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but on the other hand, he was revealed at the end of time for your sake.

isv@1Peter:1:21 @ Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

isv@1Peter:1:22 @ Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.

isv@1Peter:1:23 @ For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish—by the living and everlasting word of God.

isv@1Peter:1:25 @ but the word of the Lord lasts forever.”Now this word is the good news that was announced to you.

isv@1Peter:2:2 @ Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.

isv@1Peter:2:3 @ Surely you have tasted that the Lord is good!

isv@1Peter:2:5 @ you, too, as living stones, are building yourselves up into a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, so that you may offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

isv@1Peter:2:7 @ Therefore he is precious to you who believe, but to those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone,

isv@1Peter:2:9 @ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

isv@1Peter:2:11 @ Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

isv@1Peter:2:12 @ Continue to live such upright lives among the Gentiles that, when they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God when he visits them in judgment.

isv@1Peter:2:15 @ For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

isv@1Peter:2:19 @ For it is a fine thing if, when moved by your conscience to please God, you suffer patiently when wronged.

isv@1Peter:2:20 @ What credit is it if you sin and patiently receive a beating for it? But if you suffer for doing good and take it patiently, you have God's approval.

isv@1Peter:2:21 @ This is, in fact, what you were called to do, because Christ also suffered for you and left an example for you to follow in his steps.

isv@1Peter:2:23 @ When he was insulted, he did not retaliate. When he suffered, he did not threaten but made it his habit to commit the matter to the one who judges fairly.

isv@1Peter:2:24 @ He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to those sins and live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

isv@1Peter:2:25 @ For you were like sheep that kept going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

isv@1Peter:3:1 @ In a similar way, you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if some of them refuse to obey the word, they may be won over without a word through your conduct as wives

isv@1Peter:3:4 @ Instead, it should be the inner disposition of the heart, consisting in the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great value in the sight of God.

isv@1Peter:3:7 @ In a similar way, you husbands must live with your wives in an understanding manner, as with a most delicate vessel. Honor them as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing may interfere with your prayers.

isv@1Peter:3:8 @ Finally, all of you must live in harmony, be sympathetic, love as brothers, and be compassionate and humble.

isv@1Peter:3:12 @ For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,and his ears are attentive to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do wrong.”

isv@1Peter:3:13 @ Who will harm you if you are devoted to doing what is good?

isv@1Peter:3:14 @ But even if you should suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Never be afraid of their threats, and never get upset.

isv@1Peter:3:16 @ But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak evil of your good conduct in Christ will be ashamed of slandering you.

isv@1Peter:3:18 @ For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, an innocent person for the guilty, so that he could bring you to God. He was put to death in the sphere of the flesh but was made alive in the sphere of the spirit,

isv@1Peter:3:19 @ in which he went and made a proclamation to those imprisoned spirits

isv@1Peter:3:20 @ who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah, when God waited patiently while the ark was being built. In it a few, that is, eight persons, were saved by water.

isv@1Peter:3:21 @ Baptism, which is symbolized by that water, now saves you also, not by removing dirt from the body, but by asking God for a clear conscience based on the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

isv@1Peter:3:22 @ who has gone to heaven and is at the right hand of God, where angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to him.

isv@1Peter:4:1 @ Therefore, since Christ suffered in the sphere of the flesh, you, too, must arm yourselves with the same determination. For the person who has suffered in the sphere of the flesh has stopped sinning,

isv@1Peter:4:2 @ so that he can live the rest of his time in the flesh guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.

isv@1Peter:4:3 @ For you spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in sensuality, sinful desires, drunkenness, wild celebrations, drinking parties, and detestable idolatry.

isv@1Peter:4:4 @ They insult you now because they are surprised that you are no longer joining them in the same excesses of wild living.

isv@1Peter:4:6 @ Indeed, this is why the gospel was proclaimed even to those who have died, so that they could be judged in the realm of the flesh like all humans and live in the realm of the spirit like God.

isv@1Peter:4:11 @ Whoever speaks must speak God's words. Whoever serves must serve with the strength that God supplies, so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. Glory and power belong to him forever and ever! Amen.

isv@1Peter:4:12 @ Dear friends, do not be surprised by the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

isv@1Peter:4:13 @ Instead, because you are participating in the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that you may be glad and shout for joy when his glory is revealed.

isv@1Peter:4:16 @ But if you suffer for being a Christian, do not feel ashamed, but glorify God with that name.

isv@1Peter:4:17 @ For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. And if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who refuse to obey the gospel of God?

isv@1Peter:4:18 @ “If it is hard for the righteous person to be saved,what will happen to the ungodly and sinful person?”

isv@1Peter:4:19 @ So then, those who suffer according to God's will should entrust their souls to a faithful Creator and continue to do what is good.

isv@1Peter:5:2 @ Be shepherds of God's flock that is among you, watching over it, not because you must but because you want to, and not greedily but eagerly, as God desires.

isv@1Peter:5:4 @ Then, when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the victor's crown of glory that will never fade away.

isv@1Peter:5:6 @ Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that at the proper time he may exalt you.

isv@1Peter:5:9 @ Resist him and be firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

isv@1Peter:5:12 @ Through Silvanus, whom I regard as a faithful brother, I have written this short letter to encourage you and to testify that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it!

isv@2Peter:1:1 @ From Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith that is as valuable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

isv@2Peter:1:4 @ Through these he has given us his precious and wonderful promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, seeing that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world caused by evil desires.

isv@2Peter:1:8 @ For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

isv@2Peter:1:9 @ For the person who lacks these qualities is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten the cleansing that he has received from his past sins.

isv@2Peter:1:12 @ Therefore, I intend to keep on reminding you about these things, even though you already know them and are firmly established in the truth that you now have.

isv@2Peter:1:14 @ because I know that the removal of my bodily tent will come soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

isv@2Peter:1:15 @ And I will make every effort to see that you will always remember these things after I am gone.

isv@2Peter:1:16 @ When we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we did not follow any clever myths. Rather, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

isv@2Peter:1:17 @ For he received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice of the Majestic Glory was conveyed to him as follows: “This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him.”

isv@2Peter:1:18 @ We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

isv@2Peter:1:19 @ Thus we regard the message of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp that is shining in a gloomy place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

isv@2Peter:1:20 @ First of all, you must understand this: No prophecy in Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,

isv@2Peter:1:21 @ because no prophecy ever originated through a human decision. Instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

isv@2Peter:2:6 @ and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them by burning them to ashes, making them an example to ungodly people of what is going to happen to them;

isv@2Peter:2:7 @ and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was greatly distressed by the immoral conduct of lawless people—

isv@2Peter:2:8 @ for as long as that righteous man lived among them, day after day he was being tortured in his righteous soul by what he saw and heard in their lawless actions—

isv@2Peter:2:10 @ especially those who satisfy their flesh by indulging in its passions and who despise authority.Being bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to slander glorious beings.

isv@2Peter:2:11 @ Yet even angels, although they are greater in strength and power, do not bring a slanderous accusation against them from the Lord.

isv@2Peter:2:12 @ These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,

isv@2Peter:2:13 @ suffering wrong as punishment for their wrongdoing. They take pleasure in wild parties in broad daylight. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceitful pleasures while they eat with you.

isv@2Peter:2:15 @ They have left the straight path and wandered off to follow the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the reward he got for doing wrong.

isv@2Peter:2:16 @ But he was rebuked for his offense. A donkey that normally cannot talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's insanity.

isv@2Peter:2:19 @ Promising them freedom, they themselves are slaves to depravity, for a person is a slave to whatever conquers him.

isv@2Peter:2:21 @ It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and turn their backs on the holy commandment that was committed to them.

isv@2Peter:2:22 @ The proverb is true that describes what has happened to them: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and “A pig that is washed goes back to wallow in the mud.”

isv@2Peter:3:1 @ Dear friends, this is now the second letter I am writing to you. In them I have been trying to stimulate your pure minds by reminding you

isv@2Peter:3:4 @ by saying, “What happened to his promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation.”

isv@2Peter:3:5 @ But they deliberately ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth was formed by God's word out of water and with water,

isv@2Peter:3:6 @ by which the world at that time was deluged with water and destroyed.

isv@2Peter:3:9 @ The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some people understand slowness, but is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to perish, but wants everyone to come to repentance.

isv@2Peter:3:10 @ But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will disappear with a roaring sound, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be exposed.

isv@2Peter:3:13 @ But in keeping with his promise, we are looking forward to new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

isv@2Peter:3:14 @ So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to have him find you without spot or fault and at peace.

isv@2Peter:3:15 @ Think of our Lord's patience as salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him.

isv@2Peter:3:18 @ Instead, continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to him both now and on that eternal day! Amen.

isv@1John:1:1 @ What existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we observed and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life!

isv@1John:1:2 @ This life was revealed to us, and we have seen it and testify about it. We declare to you this eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.

isv@1John:1:3 @ What we have seen and heard we declare to you so that you, too, can have fellowship with us. Now this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

isv@1John:1:4 @ We are writing these things so that our joy may be full.

isv@1John:1:5 @ This is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness—none at all!

isv@1John:1:6 @ If we claim that we have fellowship with him but keep living in the darkness, we are lying and the truth is not in us.

isv@1John:1:8 @ If we say that we do not have any sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

isv@1John:1:10 @ If we say that we have never sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

isv@1John:2:1 @ My little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you might not sin. Yet if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, one who is righteous.

isv@1John:2:2 @ It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world's.

isv@1John:2:3 @ This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.

isv@1John:2:4 @ The person who says, “I have come to know him,” but does not continually keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.

isv@1John:2:5 @ But whoever continually keeps his word is the kind of person in whom God's love has truly been perfected. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with him:

isv@1John:2:6 @ The one who says that he abides in him must live the same way he himself lived.

isv@1John:2:7 @ Dear friends, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.

isv@1John:2:8 @ On the other hand, I am writing to you a new commandment that is true in him and in you. For the darkness is fading away, and the true light is already shining.

isv@1John:2:9 @ The person who says that he is in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.

isv@1John:2:11 @ But the person who hates his brother is in the darkness and lives in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

isv@1John:2:13 @ I am writing to you, fathers,because you have known the one whohas existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people,because you have overcome the evil one.

isv@1John:2:14 @ I have written to you, little children,because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers,because you have known the one whohas existed from the beginning. I have written to you, young people,because you are strongand because God's word remains in youand you have overcome the evil one.

isv@1John:2:15 @ Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

isv@1John:2:16 @ For everything that is in the world—the desire for fleshly gratification, the desire for possessions, and worldly arrogance—is not from the Father but is from the world.

isv@1John:2:18 @ Little children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that an antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.

isv@1John:2:19 @ They left us, but they were not part of us, for if they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. They simply made it clear that none of them was really part of us.

isv@1John:2:22 @ Who is a liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? The person who denies the Father and the Son is the antichrist.

isv@1John:2:23 @ No one who denies the Son has the Father. The person who acknowledges the Son also has the Father.

isv@1John:2:24 @ What you have heard from the beginning must abide in you. If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you will also abide in the Son and in the Father.

isv@1John:2:25 @ The message that he himself declared to us is eternal life.

isv@1John:2:28 @ Even now, little children, abide in him. Then, when he appears, we will have confidence and will not turn away from him in shame at his coming.

isv@1John:2:29 @ If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born from God.

isv@1John:3:1 @ See what kind of love the Father has given us in letting us be called God's children! Yet that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize him either.

isv@1John:3:2 @ Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. We know that when Christ is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

isv@1John:3:5 @ You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and there is not any sin in him.

isv@1John:3:8 @ The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the devil has been sinning since the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy the works of the devil.

isv@1John:3:11 @ This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

isv@1John:3:13 @ So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

isv@1John:3:14 @ We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains in death.

isv@1John:3:15 @ Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

isv@1John:3:19 @ And this is how we will know that we belong to the truth and how we will be able to establish our hearts in his presence.

isv@1John:3:20 @ If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.

isv@1John:3:22 @ Whatever we request we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

isv@1John:3:24 @ The person who keeps his commandments abides in God, and God abides in him. This is how we can be sure that he remains in us: he has given us his Spirit.

isv@1John:4:2 @ This is how you can recognize God's Spirit: Every spirit who acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

isv@1John:4:3 @ But every spirit who does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist. You have heard that he is coming, and now he is already in the world.

isv@1John:4:4 @ Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

isv@1John:4:5 @ These people belong to the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.

isv@1John:4:9 @ This is how God's love was revealed among us: God sent his unique Son into the world so that we might live through him.

isv@1John:4:10 @ This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

isv@1John:4:13 @ This is how we know that we abide in him and he in us: he has given us his Spirit.

isv@1John:4:14 @ We have seen for ourselves and can testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

isv@1John:4:15 @ God abides in the one who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, and he abides in God.

isv@1John:4:16 @ We have come to know and believe in the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

isv@1John:4:18 @ There is no fear where love exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.

isv@1John:4:20 @ Whoever says, “I love God,” but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love the brother whom he has seen cannot love a God whom he has not seen.

isv@1John:4:21 @ And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother.

isv@1John:5:1 @ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.

isv@1John:5:2 @ This is how we know that we love God's children: we love God and keep his commandments.

isv@1John:5:3 @ For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not difficult,

isv@1John:5:4 @ because everyone who is born from God has overcome the world. Our faith is the victory that overcomes the world.

isv@1John:5:5 @ Who overcomes the world? Is it not the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

isv@1John:5:6 @ This man, Jesus Christ, is the one who came by water and blood—not with water only, but with water and with blood. The Spirit is the one who verifies this, because the Spirit is the truth.

isv@1John:5:8 @ the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and these three are one.

isv@1John:5:9 @ If we accept human testimony, God's testimony is greater, because it is the testimony of God and because he has testified about his Son.

isv@1John:5:10 @ The person who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in himself. The person who does not believe God has made him a liar by not believing the testimony that God has given about his Son.

isv@1John:5:13 @ I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

isv@1John:5:14 @ And this is the confidence that we have in him: if we ask for anything according to his will, he listens to us.

isv@1John:5:15 @ And if we know that he listens to our requests, we can be sure that we have what we ask him for.

isv@1John:5:16 @ If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray that God would give him life. This applies to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not telling you to pray about that.

isv@1John:5:17 @ Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, yet there are sins that do not lead to death.

isv@1John:5:18 @ We know that the person who has been born from God does not go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one cannot harm them.

isv@1John:5:19 @ We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies under the control of the evil one.

isv@1John:5:20 @ We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true God. We are in union with the one who is true, his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

isv@2John:1:2 @ because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever.

isv@2John:1:3 @ Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, in truth and love.

isv@2John:1:4 @ I was overjoyed to find some of your children living in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.

isv@2John:1:5 @ I am now requesting you, dear lady, that we continue to love each other. It is not as though I am writing to give you a new commandment, but one that we have had from the beginning.

isv@2John:1:6 @ And this is love: that we live according to his commandments. This is his commandment, just as you have heard it from the beginning. You must live by it.

isv@2John:1:8 @ See to it that you don't destroy what we have worked for, but that you receive your full reward.

isv@2John:1:9 @ Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ but goes beyond it does not have God. The person who abides in the teaching of Christ has both the Father and the Son.

isv@2John:1:12 @ Although I have a great deal to write to you, I would prefer not to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come to you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

isv@3John:1:2 @ Dear friend, I pray that you are doing well in every way and that you are healthy, just as your soul is healthy.

isv@3John:1:4 @ I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living according to the truth.

isv@3John:1:5 @ Dear friend, you are faithful in whatever you do for the brothers, especially when they are strangers.

isv@3John:1:8 @ Therefore, we ought to support such people so that we can become their helpers in spreading the truth.

isv@3John:1:10 @ For this reason, when I come I will call attention to what he is doing in spreading false charges against us. And not content with that, he refuses to accept the brothers. He even tries to stop those who want to accept them and throws them out of the church.

isv@3John:1:11 @ Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The person who does what is good is from God. The person who does what is evil has never seen God.

isv@3John:1:12 @ Demetrius has received a good report from everyone, including the truth itself. We, too, can testify to this, and you know that our testimony is true.

isv@3John:1:13 @ Although I have a great deal to write to you, I would rather not write with pen and ink.

isv@Jude:1:1 @ From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and yet a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept safe by Jesus Christ.

isv@Jude:1:3 @ Dear friends, although I was eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write to you and urge you to continue your vigorous defense of the faith that was passed down to the saints once and for all.

isv@Jude:1:4 @ For some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. They were written about long ago as being deserving of this condemnation because they are ungodly. They turn the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

isv@Jude:1:5 @ Now I want to remind you, even though you are fully aware of these things, that the Lord who once saved his people from the land of Egypt later destroyed those who did not believe.

isv@Jude:1:6 @ He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the great day.

isv@Jude:1:9 @ Even the archangel Michael, when he argued with the devil and fought over the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

isv@Jude:1:10 @ Whatever these people do not understand, they slander. Like irrational animals, they are destroyed by the very things they know by instinct.

isv@Jude:1:11 @ How terrible it will be for them! For they followed the path of Cain, rushed headlong into Balaam's error to make a profit, and destroyed themselves in Korah's rebellion.

isv@Jude:1:12 @ These people are stains on your love feasts. They feast with you without any sense of awe. They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, twice dead, and uprooted.

isv@Jude:1:14 @ Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about these people when he said,“Look! The Lord has come with countless thousands of his holy ones.

isv@Jude:1:15 @ He will execute judgment on all people and convict everyone of all the ungodly things that they have done in such an ungodly way, including all the harsh things that these ungodly sinners have said about him.”

isv@Jude:1:16 @ These people are complainers and faultfinders, following their own desires. Their mouths speak arrogant things, and they flatter people in order to take advantage of them.

isv@Jude:1:17 @ But you, dear friends, must remember the statements and predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

isv@Jude:1:21 @ and remain in God's love as you look for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.

isv@Jude:1:23 @ Save others by snatching them from the fire. To others, show mercy, but with fear, hating even the clothes stained by their sinful lives.

isv@Revelation:1:1 @ This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the things that must happen soon. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

isv@Revelation:1:2 @ who testified to what he saw: the word of God and the testimony about Jesus Christ.

isv@Revelation:1:3 @ How blessed is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep what is written in it, for the time is near!

isv@Revelation:1:4 @ From John to the seven churches in Asia. May grace and peace be yours from the one who is, who was, and who is coming, from the seven spirits who are in front of his throne,

isv@Revelation:1:5 @ and from Jesus Christ, the witness, the faithful one, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

isv@Revelation:1:6 @ and has made us a kingdom, priests for his God and Father, be glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

isv@Revelation:1:7 @ Look! He is coming in the clouds.Every eye will see him, even those who pierced him,and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him.So be it! Amen.

isv@Revelation:1:8 @ “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” declares the Lord God, the one who is, who was, and who is coming, the Almighty.

isv@Revelation:1:9 @ I am John, your brother and partner in suffering, ruling, and enduring because of Jesus. I was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.

isv@Revelation:1:10 @ I came to be in the Spirit on the Day of the Lord, when I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet,

isv@Revelation:1:11 @ saying,“Write on a scroll what you see, and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

isv@Revelation:1:12 @ Then I turned to see the voice that was talking to me, and when I turned I saw seven gold lampstands.

isv@Revelation:1:13 @ Among the lampstands there was someone like the Son of Man. He was wearing a long robe with a gold belt around his waist.

isv@Revelation:1:14 @ His head and his hair were white like wool, in fact, as white as snow. His eyes were like flames of fire,

isv@Revelation:1:15 @ his feet were like glowing bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of raging waters.

isv@Revelation:1:16 @ In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword. His face was like the sun when it shines with full force.

isv@Revelation:1:17 @ When I saw him, I fell down at his feet like a dead man. But he placed his right hand on me and said,“Stop being afraid! I am the first and the last,

isv@Revelation:1:18 @ the living one. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever! I have the keys of Death and Hades.

isv@Revelation:1:19 @ Therefore, write down what you have seen, what is, and what is going to happen after this.

isv@Revelation:1:20 @ The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven gold lampstands is this: the seven stars are the messengersof the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.”

isv@Revelation:2:1 @ “To the messengerof the church in Ephesus, write:‘The one who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks among the seven gold lampstands, says this:

isv@Revelation:2:2 @ ‘I know your works, your toil, and your endurance. I also know that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not, and have found them to be false.

isv@Revelation:2:3 @ You have endured and suffered because of my name, yet you have not grown weary.

isv@Revelation:2:4 @ However, I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

isv@Revelation:2:5 @ Therefore, remember how far you have fallen. Repent, and do the works you did at first. If you don't, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

isv@Revelation:2:6 @ But this is to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

isv@Revelation:2:7 @ ‘Let the person who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give the privilege of eating from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.’”

isv@Revelation:2:8 @ “To the messengerof the church in Smyrna, write:‘The first and the last, who was dead and became alive, says this:

isv@Revelation:2:9 @ ‘I know your suffering, your poverty—though you are rich—and the slander on the part of those who claim to be Jews but aren't. They are the synagogue of Satan.

isv@Revelation:2:10 @ Don't be afraid of what you are going to suffer. Look! The devil is going to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested. For ten days you will undergo suffering. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the victor's crown of life.

isv@Revelation:2:11 @ ‘Let the person who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will never be hurt by the second death.’”

isv@Revelation:2:12 @ “To the messengerof the church in Pergamum, write:‘The one who holds the sharp, two-edged sword, says this:

isv@Revelation:2:13 @ ‘I know where you live. Satan's throne is there. Yet you hold on to my name and have not denied your faith in me,even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your presence, where Satan lives.

isv@Revelation:2:14 @ But I have a few things against you: You have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, the one who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality.

isv@Revelation:2:15 @ You also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

isv@Revelation:2:16 @ So repent. If you don't, I will come to you quickly and wage war against them with the sword of my mouth.

isv@Revelation:2:17 @ ‘Let the person who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone. On the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the person who receives it.’

isv@Revelation:2:18 @ “To the messengerof the church in Thyatira, write:‘The Son of God, whose eyes are like flaming fire and whose feet are like glowing bronze, says this:

isv@Revelation:2:19 @ ‘I know your works—your love, faithfulness,service, and endurance—and that your last works are greater than the first.

isv@Revelation:2:20 @ But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and who teaches and leads my servants to practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

isv@Revelation:2:21 @ Igave her time to repent, but she refused to repent of her immorality.

isv@Revelation:2:22 @ Look! I am going to throw her into a sickbed. Those who commit adultery with her will also have great suffering, unless they repent of her works.

isv@Revelation:2:23 @ I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will reward each of you as your works deserve.

isv@Revelation:2:24 @ ‘But as for the rest of you in Thyatira—you who do not hold on to this teaching and who have not learned what some people call the deep things of Satan—I won't lay on you any other burden.

isv@Revelation:2:25 @ Just hold on to what you have until I come.

isv@Revelation:2:26 @ To the person who conquers and continues to do my works to the end I will give authority over the nations.

isv@Revelation:2:27 @ He will rule them with an iron scepter, as when clay pots are shattered.

isv@Revelation:2:28 @ Just as I have received authority from my Father, I will also give him the morning star.

isv@Revelation:2:29 @ ‘Let the person who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.’

isv@Revelation:3:1 @ “To the messengerof the church in Sardis, write:‘The one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says this:‘I know your works. You are known for being alive, but you are dead.

isv@Revelation:3:2 @ Be alert, and strengthen the things that are left, which are about to die. I have not found your works to be completed in the sight of my God.

isv@Revelation:3:3 @ So remember what you received and heard. Obey it, and repent. If you are not alert, I will come like a thief, and you won't know the time when I will come to you.

isv@Revelation:3:4 @ But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me in white clothes because they are worthy.

isv@Revelation:3:5 @ The person who conquers in this way will wear white clothes, and I will never erase his name from the Book of Life. I will acknowledge his name in the presence of my Father and his angels.

isv@Revelation:3:6 @ ‘Let the person who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.’

isv@Revelation:3:7 @ “To the messengerof the church in Philadelphia, write:‘The one who is holy, who is true,who has the key of David, who opens a door thatno one can shut,and who shuts a door thatno one can open,says this:

isv@Revelation:3:8 @ ‘I know your works. Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut. You have only a little strength, but you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

isv@Revelation:3:9 @ I will make those who belong to the synagogue of Satan—those who claim to be Jews and aren't, but are lying—come and bow down at your feet. Then they will realize that I have loved you.

isv@Revelation:3:10 @ Becauseyou have kept my command to endure,I will keep you from the hour of testing that is coming to the whole world to test those living on the earth.

isv@Revelation:3:11 @ I am coming soon! Hold on to what you have so that no one takes your victor's crown.

isv@Revelation:3:12 @ I will make the one who conquers a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and he will never go out of it again. I will write on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God), and my own new name.

isv@Revelation:3:13 @ ‘Let the person who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.’

isv@Revelation:3:14 @ “To the messengerof the church in Laodicea, write:‘The Amen, the witness who is faithful and true, the beginningof God's creation, says this:

isv@Revelation:3:15 @ ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

isv@Revelation:3:16 @ Since you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth.

isv@Revelation:3:17 @ You say, “I am rich. I have become wealthy. I don't need anything.” Yet you don't realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

isv@Revelation:3:18 @ Therefore, I advise you to buy from me gold purified in fire so that you may be rich, white clothes to wear so that you may keep the shame of your nakedness from showing, and ointment to put on your eyes so that you may see.

isv@Revelation:3:19 @ I correct and discipline those whom I love, so be serious and repent!

isv@Revelation:3:20 @ Look! I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he will eatwith me.

isv@Revelation:3:21 @ To the one who conquers I will give a place to sit with me on my throne, just as I have conquered and have sat down with my Father on his throne.

isv@Revelation:3:22 @ ‘Let the person who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

isv@Revelation:4:1 @ After these things I saw a door standing open in heaven. The first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said,“Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this.”

isv@Revelation:4:2 @ Instantly I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne in heaven with a person seated on the throne.

isv@Revelation:4:3 @ The person sitting there looked like jasper and carnelian, and there was a rainbow around the throne that looked like an emerald.

isv@Revelation:4:4 @ Around the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders wearing white robes and gold victor's crowns on their heads.

isv@Revelation:4:5 @ Flashes of lightning, noises, and peals of thunder came from the throne. Burning in front of the throne were seven flaming torches, which are the seven spirits of God.

isv@Revelation:4:6 @ In front of the throne was something like a sea of glass as clear as crystal. In the center of the throne and on each side of the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.

isv@Revelation:4:7 @ The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature was like an ox, the third living creature had a face like a human, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.

isv@Revelation:4:8 @ Each of the four living creatures had six wings and were full of eyes inside and out. Without stopping day or night they were singing, “Holy, holy, holyis the Lord God Almighty,who was, who is, and who is coming.”

isv@Revelation:4:9 @ Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

isv@Revelation:4:10 @ the twenty-four elders bow down in front of the one who sits on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever. They throw their victor's crowns in front of the throne and say,

isv@Revelation:4:11 @ “You are worthy, our Lord and God,to receive glory, honor, and power,because you created all things, and they came into existence and were created because of your will.”

isv@Revelation:5:1 @ Then I saw in the right hand of the one who sits on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the outside, sealed with seven seals.

isv@Revelation:5:2 @ I also saw a powerful angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”

isv@Revelation:5:3 @ No one in heaven, on earth, or under the earth could open the scroll or look inside it.

isv@Revelation:5:4 @ I began to cry bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.

isv@Revelation:5:5 @ Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop crying. Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered. He can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

isv@Revelation:5:6 @ Then I saw a lamb standing in the middle of the throne, the four living creatures, and the elders. He looked like he had been slaughtered. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent into all the earth.

isv@Revelation:5:7 @ He went and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who sits on the throne.

isv@Revelation:5:8 @ When the lamb had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders bowed down in front of him. Each held a harp and a gold bowl full of incense, the prayers of the saints.

isv@Revelation:5:9 @ They sang a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals,because you were slaughtered. With your blood you purchased people for Godfrom every tribe, language, people, and nation.

isv@Revelation:5:10 @ You made them a kingdom and priests for our God,and they will reign on the earth.”

isv@Revelation:5:11 @ Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels, the living creatures, and the elders surrounding the throne. They numbered ten thousands times ten thousand and thousands times thousands.

isv@Revelation:5:12 @ They sang with a loud voice, “Worthy is the lamb who was slaughteredto receive power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and praise!”

isv@Revelation:5:13 @ I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, and on the sea, and everything that is in them, saying, “To the one who sits on the throne and to the lambbe praise, honor, glory, and powerforever and ever!”

isv@Revelation:5:14 @ Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!”, and the elders bowed down and worshiped.

isv@Revelation:6:1 @ Then I saw the lamb open the first of the seven seals. I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Go!”

isv@Revelation:6:2 @ Then I looked, and there was a white horse! Its rider had a bow, and a victor's crown had been given to him. He went out as a conqueror to conquer.

isv@Revelation:6:3 @ When the lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Go!”

isv@Revelation:6:4 @ A second horse went out. It was fiery red, and its rider was given permission to take peace away from the earth and to make people slaughter one another. So he was given a large sword.

isv@Revelation:6:5 @ When the lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Go!” I looked, and there was a black horse! Its rider held a scale in his hand.

isv@Revelation:6:6 @ I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, or three quarts of barley for a denarius. But don't damage the olive oil or the wine!”

isv@Revelation:6:7 @ When the lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Go!”

isv@Revelation:6:8 @ I looked, and there was a pale horse! Its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. They were given authority over one-fourth of the earth to kill people using wars, famines, plagues, and the wild animals of the earth.

isv@Revelation:6:9 @ When the lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and the testimony they had given.

isv@Revelation:6:10 @ They cried out in a loud voice, “Holy and true Sovereign, how long will it be before you judge and take revenge on those living on the earth who shed our blood?”

isv@Revelation:6:11 @ Each of them was given a white robe. They were told to rest a little longer until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers was completed, who would be killed as they had been killed.

isv@Revelation:6:12 @ Then I saw the lamb open the sixth seal. There was a powerful earthquake. The sun turned as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon turned as red as blood.

isv@Revelation:6:13 @ The stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree drops its fruit when it is shaken by a strong wind.

isv@Revelation:6:14 @ The sky vanished like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

isv@Revelation:6:15 @ Then the kings of the earth, the important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and all the slaves and free people hid themselves in caves and among the rocks in the mountains.

isv@Revelation:6:16 @ They said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb.

isv@Revelation:6:17 @ For the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to endure it?”

isv@Revelation:7:1 @ After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth. They were holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the land, on the sea, or on any tree.

isv@Revelation:7:2 @ I saw another angel coming from the east having the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been permitted to harm the land and sea,

isv@Revelation:7:3 @ “Don't harm the land, the sea, or the trees until we have marked the servants of our God with a seal on their foreheads.”

isv@Revelation:7:4 @ I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000. Those who were sealed were from every tribe of Israel:

isv@Revelation:7:5 @ 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad,

isv@Revelation:7:6 @ 12,000 from the tribe of Asher, 12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,

isv@Revelation:7:7 @ 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,

isv@Revelation:7:8 @ 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, and 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.

isv@Revelation:7:9 @ After these things I looked, and there was a large crowd that no one was able to count! They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. They were standing in front of the throne and the lamb and were wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

isv@Revelation:7:10 @ They cried out in a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God,who sits on the throne,and to the lamb!”

isv@Revelation:7:11 @ All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshiped God,

isv@Revelation:7:12 @ saying, “Amen! Praise, glory, wisdom, thanks, honor, power, and strengthbe to our God forever and ever! Amen!”

isv@Revelation:7:13 @ Then one of the elders said to me, “Who are these people wearing white robes, and where did they come from?”

isv@Revelation:7:14 @ I said to him, “Sir, you know.”Then he told me, “These are the people who are coming out of the terrible suffering. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb.

isv@Revelation:7:15 @ That is why: “They are in front of the throne of Godand worship him night and day in his temple. The one who sits on the throne will shelter them.

isv@Revelation:7:16 @ They will never be hungry or thirsty again.Neither the sun nor any burning heat will ever strike them,

isv@Revelation:7:17 @ for the lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. He will lead them to springs filled with the water of life,and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”

isv@Revelation:8:1 @ When the lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

isv@Revelation:8:2 @ Then I saw the seven angels who stand in God's presence, and seven trumpets were given to them.

isv@Revelation:8:3 @ Another angel came with a gold censer and stood at the altar. He was given a large quantity of incense to offer on the gold altar before the throne, along with the prayers of all the saints.

isv@Revelation:8:4 @ The smoke from the incense and the prayers of the saints went up from the angel's hand to God.

isv@Revelation:8:5 @ The angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it on the earth. Then there were peals of thunder, noises, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

isv@Revelation:8:6 @ The seven angels who had the seven trumpets got ready to blow them.

isv@Revelation:8:7 @ When the first angel blew his trumpet, hail and fire were mixed with blood and thrown on the earth. One-third of the earth was burned up, one-third of the trees was burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

isv@Revelation:8:8 @ When the second angel blew his trumpet, something like a huge mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. One-third of the sea turned into blood,

isv@Revelation:8:9 @ one-third of the creatures that were living in the sea died, and one-third of the ships was destroyed.

isv@Revelation:8:10 @ When the third angel blew his trumpet, a huge star blazing like a torch fell from heaven. It fell on one-third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

isv@Revelation:8:11 @ The name of the star is Wormwood. One-third of the water turned into wormwood, and many people died from the water because it had turned bitter.

isv@Revelation:8:12 @ When the fourth angel blew his trumpet, one-third of the sun, one-third of the moon, and one-third of the stars were struck so that one-third of them turned dark. One-third of the day was kept from shining, and also the night.

isv@Revelation:8:13 @ Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying overhead say in a loud voice, “How terrible, how terrible, how terrible for those living on the earth, because of the blasts of the remaining trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”

isv@Revelation:9:1 @ When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky. The star was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.

isv@Revelation:9:2 @ It opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke came out of the shaft like the smoke from a large furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.

isv@Revelation:9:3 @ Locusts came out of the smoke onto the earth, and they were given power like the power of earthly scorpions.

isv@Revelation:9:4 @ They were told not to harm the grass on the earth, any green plant, or any tree. They could harm only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

isv@Revelation:9:5 @ They were not allowed to kill them, but were only allowed to torture them for five months. Their torture was like the pain of a scorpion when it stings someone.

isv@Revelation:9:6 @ In those days people will look for death and never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.

isv@Revelation:9:7 @ The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were victor's crowns that looked like gold, and their faces were like human faces.

isv@Revelation:9:8 @ They had hair like women's hair and teeth like lions’ teeth.

isv@Revelation:9:9 @ They had breastplates like iron, and the noise of their wings was like the roar of chariots with many horses rushing into battle.

isv@Revelation:9:10 @ They had tails and stingers like scorpions, and they had the power to hurt people with their tails for five months.

isv@Revelation:9:11 @ They had the angel of the bottomless pit ruling over them as king. In Hebrew he is called Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.

isv@Revelation:9:12 @ The first catastrophe is over. After these things there are still two more catastrophes to come.

isv@Revelation:9:13 @ When the sixth angel blew his trumpet, I heard a voice from the four horns of the gold altar in front of God.

isv@Revelation:9:14 @ It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are held at the great Euphrates River.”

isv@Revelation:9:15 @ So the four angels who were ready for that hour, day, month, and year were released to kill one-third of humanity.

isv@Revelation:9:16 @ The number of cavalry troops was 200,000,000. I heard how many there were.

isv@Revelation:9:17 @ This was how I saw the horses in my vision: The riders wore breastplates that had the color of fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur came out of their mouths.

isv@Revelation:9:18 @ By these three plagues—the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths—one-third of humanity was killed.

isv@Revelation:9:19 @ For the power of these horses is in their mouths and their tails. Their tails have heads like snakes, which they use to inflict pain.

isv@Revelation:9:20 @ The rest of the people who survived these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands or stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk.

isv@Revelation:9:21 @ They did not repent of their murders, their deeds of witchcraft, their acts of sexual immorality, or their thefts.

isv@Revelation:10:1 @ Then I saw another powerful angel come down from heaven. He was dressed in a cloud, and there was a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like columns of fire.

isv@Revelation:10:2 @ He held a small, opened scroll in his hand. Setting his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

isv@Revelation:10:3 @ he shouted in a loud voice as a lion roars. When he shouted, the seven thunders spoke with voices of their own.

isv@Revelation:10:4 @ When the seven thunders spoke, I was going to write, but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and don't write it down.”

isv@Revelation:10:5 @ Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven.

isv@Revelation:10:6 @ He swore an oath by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay.

isv@Revelation:10:7 @ In the days when the seventh angel is ready to blow his trumpet, the secret of God will be fulfilled, as he had announced to his servants, the prophets.”

isv@Revelation:10:8 @ Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go and take the opened scroll from the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

isv@Revelation:10:9 @ So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will be bitter in your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”

isv@Revelation:10:10 @ So I took the small scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach was bitter.

isv@Revelation:10:11 @ Then the seven thunders told me, “Again you must prophesy about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

isv@Revelation:11:1 @ Then I was given a stick like a measuring rod. I was told, “Stand up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count those who worship there.

isv@Revelation:11:2 @ But don't measure the courtyard outside the temple. Leave that out, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the Holy City for forty-two months.

isv@Revelation:11:3 @ I will give my two witnesses who wear sackcloth the authority to prophesy for 1,260 days.”

isv@Revelation:11:4 @ These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing in the presence of the Lord of the earth.

isv@Revelation:11:5 @ And if anyone should want to hurt them, fire comes out of their mouths and burns up their enemies. If anyone wants to hurt them, he must be killed in the same way.

isv@Revelation:11:6 @ These witnesses have authority to shut the sky in order to keep rain from falling during the days of their prophesying. They also have authority over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with any plague as often as they desire.

isv@Revelation:11:7 @ When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the bottomless pit will wage war against them, conquer them, and kill them.

isv@Revelation:11:8 @ Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

isv@Revelation:11:9 @ For three and a half days some members of the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their dead bodies and will not allow them to be placed in a tomb.

isv@Revelation:11:10 @ Those living on earth will gloat over them, celebrate, and send gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those living on earth.

isv@Revelation:11:11 @ But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet. Those who watched them were terrified.

isv@Revelation:11:12 @ Then the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven calling to them, “Come up here!” So they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.

isv@Revelation:11:13 @ At that moment a powerful earthquake struck. One-tenth of the city collapsed, 7,000 people were killed by the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

isv@Revelation:11:14 @ The second catastrophe is over. The third catastrophe is coming very soon.

isv@Revelation:11:15 @ When the seventh angel blew his trumpet, there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,and he will rule forever and ever.”

isv@Revelation:11:16 @ Then the twenty-four elders who were sitting on their thrones in God's presence fell on their faces and worshiped God.

isv@Revelation:11:17 @ They said, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,who is and who was,because you have taken your great powerand have begun to rule.

isv@Revelation:11:18 @ The nations were angry,but your wrath has come. It is time for the dead to be judged—to reward your servants, the prophets, the saints, and all who fear your name,both unimportant and important,and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

isv@Revelation:11:19 @ Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen inside his temple. There were flashes of lightning, noises, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.

isv@Revelation:12:1 @ A spectacular sign appeared in the sky: a woman dressed with the sun, who had the moon under her feet and a victor's crown of twelve stars on her head.

isv@Revelation:12:2 @ She was pregnant and was crying out from labor pains and the agony of giving birth.

isv@Revelation:12:3 @ Then another sign appeared in the sky: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on its heads.

isv@Revelation:12:4 @ Its tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky and threw them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it could devour her child when it was born.

isv@Revelation:12:5 @ She gave birth to a son, a boy, who is to rule all the nations with an iron scepter. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne.

isv@Revelation:12:6 @ Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where a place had been prepared for her by God so that she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

isv@Revelation:12:7 @ Then a war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels fought back.

isv@Revelation:12:8 @ But it was not strong enough, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.

isv@Revelation:12:9 @ The huge dragon was thrown down. That ancient serpent, called devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was thrown down to the earth, and its angels were thrown down with it.

isv@Revelation:12:10 @ Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, “Now the salvation, the power,the kingdom of our God,and the authority of his Christ have come. For the one accusing our brothers,the one who accuses them day and nightin the presence of our God, has been thrown out.

isv@Revelation:12:11 @ They conquered him by the blood of the lamband by the word of their testimony,for they did not love their life even in the face of death.

isv@Revelation:12:12 @ So be glad, heavens, and those who live in them! How terrible it is for the earth and the sea,because the devil has come down to you with great wrath,knowing that his time is short!”

isv@Revelation:12:13 @ When the dragon saw that it had been thrown down to the earth, it persecuted the woman who had given birth to the boy.

isv@Revelation:12:14 @ However, the woman was given the two wings of a large eagle so that she could fly away from the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she could be taken care of for a time, times, and half a time.

isv@Revelation:12:15 @ From its mouth the serpent poured water like a river behind the woman in order to sweep her away with the flood.

isv@Revelation:12:16 @ But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had poured from its mouth.

isv@Revelation:12:17 @ Then the dragon became angry with the woman and went away to do battle against the rest of her children, the ones who keep God's commandments and hold on to the testimony about Jesus.

isv@Revelation:13:1 @ Then the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns, seven heads, and ten royal crowns on its horns. On its heads were blasphemous names.

isv@Revelation:13:2 @ The beast that I saw was like a leopard. Its feet were like bear's feet, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave it his power, his throne, and complete authority.

isv@Revelation:13:3 @ One of the beast's heads looked like it had a fatal wound, but its fatal wound was healed. And in amazement the whole world followed the beast.

isv@Revelation:13:4 @ They worshiped the dragon because it had given authority to the beast. They also worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight a war with it?”

isv@Revelation:13:5 @ The beast was allowed to speak arrogant and blasphemous things, and it was given authority for forty-two months.

isv@Revelation:13:6 @ It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God and to blaspheme his name and his residence, that is, those who are living in heaven.

isv@Revelation:13:7 @ It was allowed to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. It was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

isv@Revelation:13:8 @ All those living on earth will worship it, everyone whose name is not written in the Book of Life belonging to the lamb that was slaughtered from the foundation of the world.

isv@Revelation:13:9 @ Let anyone who has an ear listen:

isv@Revelation:13:10 @ If anyone is to be taken captive,he must go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with a sword,he must be killed with a sword.This is what the endurance and faith of the saints means.

isv@Revelation:13:11 @ Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it talked like a dragon.

isv@Revelation:13:12 @ It uses all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and it makes the earth and those living on it worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

isv@Revelation:13:13 @ It performs spectacular signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people.

isv@Revelation:13:14 @ It deceives those living on earth with the signs that it is allowed to do on behalf of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who was wounded by a sword and yet lived.

isv@Revelation:13:15 @ The second beast was allowed to give breath to the image of the first beast so that the image of the beast could talk and put to death those who would not worship the image of the beast.

isv@Revelation:13:16 @ The second beast forces all people—important and unimportant, rich and poor, free and slaves—to be marked on their right hands or on their foreheads,

isv@Revelation:13:17 @ so that no one may buy or sell unless he has the mark, which is the beast's name or the number of its name.

isv@Revelation:13:18 @ This calls for wisdom: Let the person who has understanding figure out the number of the beast, because it is the number of a person. Its number is 666.

isv@Revelation:14:1 @ Then I looked, and there was the lamb standing on Mount Zion! With him were 144,000 people who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

isv@Revelation:14:2 @ Then I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.

isv@Revelation:14:3 @ They were singing a new song in front of the throne, the four living creatures, and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

isv@Revelation:14:4 @ They have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins, and they follow the lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among humanity as the first fruits for God and the lamb.

isv@Revelation:14:5 @ In their mouth no lie was found. They are blameless.

isv@Revelation:14:6 @ Then I saw another angel flying overhead with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on earth—to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

isv@Revelation:14:7 @ He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”

isv@Revelation:14:8 @ Then another angel, a second one, followed him, saying, “Fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen! She has made all the nations drink the wine of the wrath of her sexual sins.”

isv@Revelation:14:9 @ Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying in a loud voice, “Whoever worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or his hand

isv@Revelation:14:10 @ will drink the wine of God's wrath, which has been poured unmixed into the cup of his anger. He will be tortured with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the lamb.

isv@Revelation:14:11 @ The smoke from their torture goes up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

isv@Revelation:14:12 @ Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and hold on to the faithfulness of Jesus.

isv@Revelation:14:13 @ I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: How blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!”“Yes,” says the Spirit. “Let them rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them.”

isv@Revelation:14:14 @ Then I looked, and there was a white cloud! On the cloud sat someone who was like the Son of Man, with a gold victor's crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.

isv@Revelation:14:15 @ Another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the one who sat on the cloud, “Swing your sickle, and gather the harvest, for the hour has come to gather it, because the harvest on the earth is fully ripe.”

isv@Revelation:14:16 @ The one who sat on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

isv@Revelation:14:17 @ Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven. He, too, had a sharp sickle.

isv@Revelation:14:18 @ From the altar came another angel who had authority over fire. He called out in a loud voice to the angel who had the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle, and gather the bunches of grapes from the vine of the earth, because those grapes are ripe.”

isv@Revelation:14:19 @ So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the grapes from the earth and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath.

isv@Revelation:14:20 @ The wine press was trampled outside the city, and blood flowed out of the wine press as high as a horse's bridle for 200 miles.

isv@Revelation:15:1 @ I saw another sign in heaven. It was spectacular and amazing. There were seven angels with the seven last plagues. With them God's wrath has come to its completion.

isv@Revelation:15:2 @ Then I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire. Those who had conquered the beast, its image, and the number of its name were standing on the sea of glass holding God's harps in their hands.

isv@Revelation:15:3 @ They sang the song of God's servant Moses and the song of the lamb: “Your deeds are spectacular and amazing, Lord God Almighty. Your ways are just and true, King of the nations.

isv@Revelation:15:4 @ Lord, who won't fear and praise your name?For you alone are holy,and all the nations will come and worship you because your judgments have been revealed.”

isv@Revelation:15:5 @ After these things I looked, and the temple of the tent of witness in heaven was open!

isv@Revelation:15:6 @ The seven angels with the seven plagues came out of the temple wearing clean, shining linen with gold belts around their waists.

isv@Revelation:15:7 @ One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven gold bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.

isv@Revelation:15:8 @ The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels came to an end.

isv@Revelation:16:1 @ Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour the seven bowls of God's wrath on the earth.”

isv@Revelation:16:2 @ So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth. A horrible, painful sore appeared on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped the image.

isv@Revelation:16:3 @ The second angel poured his bowl into the sea. It became like the blood of a dead body, and every living thing in the sea died.

isv@Revelation:16:4 @ The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

isv@Revelation:16:5 @ Then I heard the angel of the water say, “You are just. You are the one who isand who was, the Holy One,because you have judged these things.

isv@Revelation:16:6 @ You have given them blood to drinkbecause they have poured out the blood of saints and prophets.This is what they deserve.”

isv@Revelation:16:7 @ Then I heard the altar reply, “Yes, Lord God Almighty,your judgments are true and just.”

isv@Revelation:16:8 @ The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun. It was allowed to burn people with fire,

isv@Revelation:16:9 @ and they were burned by the fierce heat. They cursed the name of God, who has the authority over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.

isv@Revelation:16:10 @ The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast. Its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed on their tongues in anguish

isv@Revelation:16:11 @ and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and sores. But they did not repent of their deeds.

isv@Revelation:16:12 @ The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great Euphrates River. Its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

isv@Revelation:16:13 @ Then I saw three disgusting spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

isv@Revelation:16:14 @ They are demonic spirits that perform signs. They go to the kings of the whole earth and gather them for the war of the great day of God Almighty.

isv@Revelation:16:15 @ “See, I am coming like a thief. How blessed is the person who remains alert and keeps his clothes on! He won't have to go naked and let others see his shame.”

isv@Revelation:16:16 @ The spirits gathered the kings at the place that is called Armageddon in Hebrew.

isv@Revelation:16:17 @ The seventh angel poured his bowl into the air. A loud voice came from the throne in the temple and said, “It has happened!”

isv@Revelation:16:18 @ There were flashes of lightning, noises, peals of thunder, and a powerful earthquake. There has never been such a powerful earthquake since people have been on the earth.

isv@Revelation:16:19 @ The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered to give Babylon the Great the cup of wine filled with the fury of his wrath.

isv@Revelation:16:20 @ Every island vanished, and the mountains could no longer be found.

isv@Revelation:16:21 @ Huge hailstones, each weighing about 100 pounds, fell from the sky on people. They cursed God because the plague of hail was such a terrible plague.

isv@Revelation:17:1 @ Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the notorious prostitute who sits on many waters.

isv@Revelation:17:2 @ The kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and those living on earth became drunk with the wine of her immorality.”

isv@Revelation:17:3 @ Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was filled with blasphemous names. It had seven heads and ten horns.

isv@Revelation:17:4 @ The woman wore purple and scarlet clothes and was adorned with gold, gems, and pearls. In her hand she was holding a gold cup filled with detestable things and the impurities of her immorality.

isv@Revelation:17:5 @ On her forehead was written a secret name:BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND DETESTABLE THINGS OF THE EARTH.

isv@Revelation:17:6 @ I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. I was very surprised when I saw her.

isv@Revelation:17:7 @ The angel said to me, “Why are you surprised? I will tell you the secret of the woman and the beast with the seven heads and the ten horns that carries her.

isv@Revelation:17:8 @ The beast that you saw once was, is no longer, and is going to come from the bottomless pit and go to its destruction. Those living on earth, whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, will be surprised when they see the beast because it was, is no longer, and will come again.

isv@Revelation:17:9 @ This calls for a mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is sitting. They are also seven kings.

isv@Revelation:17:10 @ Five of them have fallen, one is living, and the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must remain for a little while.

isv@Revelation:17:11 @ The beast that was and is no longer is the eighth king, but it belongs with the seven kings and goes to its destruction.

isv@Revelation:17:12 @ The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom. They will receive authority to rule as kings with the beast for one hour.

isv@Revelation:17:13 @ They have one purpose: to give their power and authority to the beast.

isv@Revelation:17:14 @ They will wage war against the lamb, but the lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings. Those who are called, chosen, and faithful are with him.”

isv@Revelation:17:15 @ The angel also said to me, “The waters you saw, on which the prostitute is sitting, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

isv@Revelation:17:16 @ The ten horns and the beast you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her abandoned and naked. They will eat her flesh and burn her up with fire,

isv@Revelation:17:17 @ for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose. And so they will give their kingdom to the beast until God's words are fulfilled.

isv@Revelation:17:18 @ The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

isv@Revelation:18:1 @ After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was made bright by his splendor.

isv@Revelation:18:2 @ He cried out in a powerful voice, “Fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen!She has become a home for demons. She is a prison for every unclean spirit,a prison for every unclean bird,and a prison for every uncleanand hated beast.

isv@Revelation:18:3 @ For all the nations have drunkfrom the wine of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her. The merchants of the earth have become richfrom the power of her luxury.”

isv@Revelation:18:4 @ Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people,so that you don't participate in her sinsand suffer from her plagues.

isv@Revelation:18:5 @ For her sins are piled as high as heaven,and God has remembered her crimes.

isv@Revelation:18:6 @ Do to her as she herself has done.Give her double for her deeds. Mix a double drink for her in the cup she mixed.

isv@Revelation:18:7 @ Just as she glorified herself and lived in luxury,so give her just as much torture and misery. In her heart she says,‘I am a queen on a throne, not a widow.I will never see misery.’

isv@Revelation:18:8 @ For this reason her plagues of death, misery, and famine will come in a single day. She will be burned up in a fire,because powerful is the Lord God who judges her.”

isv@Revelation:18:9 @ The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality with her and lived in luxury with her, will cry and mourn over her when they see the smoke rising from her fire.

isv@Revelation:18:10 @ Frightened by her torture, they will stand far away and say, “How terrible, how terrible it is for that great city,the powerful city Babylon!For in one hour your judgment has come!”

isv@Revelation:18:11 @ The merchants of the earth cry and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo anymore—

isv@Revelation:18:12 @ cargo of gold, silver, gems, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all articles made of ivory, all articles made of very costly wood, bronze, iron, marble,

isv@Revelation:18:13 @ cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots, and slaves (that is, human souls).

isv@Revelation:18:14 @ “The fruit for which your soul craved has left you.All your dainties and your splendor are lost to you. No one will ever find them again.”

isv@Revelation:18:15 @ Frightened by her torture, the merchants of these wares who had become rich from her will stand far away. They will cry and mourn,

isv@Revelation:18:16 @ saying, “How terrible, how terrible it is for the great citythat was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarletand was adorned with gold, gems, and pearls!

isv@Revelation:18:17 @ For in one hour all this wealth has been destroyed!”Every ship's captain, everyone who traveled by ship, sailors, and everyone who made a living by the sea stood far away.

isv@Revelation:18:18 @ When they saw the smoke from her fire, they began to cry out, “What city was like the great city?”

isv@Revelation:18:19 @ Then they threw dust on their heads and shouted while crying and mourning, “How terrible, how terrible it is for the great city,where all who had ships at sea became richbecause of her wealth! For in one hour she has been destroyed!

isv@Revelation:18:20 @ Gloat over her, heaven, saints, apostles, and prophets!For God has condemned her for you.”

isv@Revelation:18:21 @ Then a powerful angel picked up a stone that was like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “The great city Babylon will be thrown down with violent force—and will never be found again.

isv@Revelation:18:22 @ The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeterswill never be heard in you again. No artisan of any tradewill ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstonewill never be heard in you again.

isv@Revelation:18:23 @ The light from a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of a bridegroom and bridewill never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the important people of the world,and all the nations were deceived by your witchcraft.

isv@Revelation:18:24 @ The blood of prophets, saints, and all who had been murderedon earth was found in her.”

isv@Revelation:19:1 @ After these things I heard what sounded like the loud voice of a large crowd in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, glory, and power belong to our God.

isv@Revelation:19:2 @ His judgments are true and just.He has condemned the notorious prostitutewho corrupted the world with her immorality. He has taken revenge on herfor the blood of his servants.”

isv@Revelation:19:3 @ A second time they said, “Hallelujah!The smoke goes up from her forever and ever.”

isv@Revelation:19:4 @ The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures bowed down and worshiped God, who was sitting on the throne. They said, “Amen! Hallelujah!”

isv@Revelation:19:5 @ A voice came from the throne, saying, “Praise our God,all who serve and fear him,from the least importantto the most important.”

isv@Revelation:19:6 @ Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a large crowd, like the sound of raging waters, and like the sound of powerful thunderclaps, saying, “Hallelujah!The Lord our God, the Almighty, is reigning.

isv@Revelation:19:7 @ Let us rejoice, be glad, and give him glory,because the marriage of the lamb has comeand his bride has made herself ready.

isv@Revelation:19:8 @ She has been given the privilege of wearing fine linen,dazzling and pure.”(The fine linen represents the righteous deeds of the saints.)

isv@Revelation:19:9 @ Then the angel said to me, “Write this: ‘How blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb!’” He also told me, “These are the true words of God.”

isv@Revelation:19:10 @ I bowed down at his feet to worship him, but he told me, “Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold on to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy!”

isv@Revelation:19:11 @ Then I saw heaven standing open, and there was a white horse! Its rider is named Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and wages war.

isv@Revelation:19:12 @ His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many royal crowns. He has a name written on him that nobody knows except himself.

isv@Revelation:19:13 @ He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.

isv@Revelation:19:14 @ The armies of heaven, wearing fine linen, white and pure, follow him on white horses.

isv@Revelation:19:15 @ A sharp sword comes out of his mouth to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod and tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.

isv@Revelation:19:16 @ On his robe and his thigh he has a name written:KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

isv@Revelation:19:17 @ Then I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come! Gather for the great supper of God.

isv@Revelation:19:18 @ Eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of warriors, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, both free and slaves, both unimportant and important.”

isv@Revelation:19:19 @ Then I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army.

isv@Revelation:19:20 @ The beast was captured, along with the false prophet who had performed signs on its behalf. By these signs the false prophet had deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

isv@Revelation:19:21 @ The rest were killed by the sword that belonged to the rider on the horse and that came from his mouth. And all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

isv@Revelation:20:1 @ Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key to the bottomless pit and a large chain in his hand.

isv@Revelation:20:2 @ He captured the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and tied him up for a thousand years.

isv@Revelation:20:3 @ He threw him into the bottomless pit, locked it, and sealed it over him to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were over. After that he must be set free for a little while.

isv@Revelation:20:4 @ Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. They came back to life and ruled with Christ for a thousand years.

isv@Revelation:20:5 @ The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were over. This is the first resurrection.

isv@Revelation:20:6 @ How blessed and holy are those who participate in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them. They will be priests of God and Christ, and will rule with him for a thousand years.

isv@Revelation:20:7 @ When the thousand years are over, Satan will be freed from his prison.

isv@Revelation:20:8 @ He will go out to deceive Gog and Magog, the nations at the four corners of the earth, and gather them for war. They are as numerous as the sands of the seashore.

isv@Revelation:20:9 @ They marched over the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Fire came from God out of heaven and burned them up,

isv@Revelation:20:10 @ and the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were. They will be tortured day and night forever and ever.

isv@Revelation:20:11 @ Then I saw a large, white throne and the one who was sitting on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

isv@Revelation:20:12 @ I saw the dead, both unimportant and important, standing in front of the throne, and books were open. Another book was opened—the Book of Life. The dead were judged according to their works, as recorded in the books.

isv@Revelation:20:13 @ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and all were judged according to their works.

isv@Revelation:20:14 @ Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. (This is the second death—the lake of fire.)

isv@Revelation:20:15 @ Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.

isv@Revelation:21:1 @ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and the sea was gone.

isv@Revelation:21:2 @ I also saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

isv@Revelation:21:3 @ I heard a loud voice from the throne say, “See, the tabernacle of God is among humans! He will make his home with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them, and he will be their God.

isv@Revelation:21:4 @ He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There won't be death anymore. There won't be any grief, crying, or pain, because the first things have disappeared.”

isv@Revelation:21:5 @ The one sitting on the throne said,“See, I am making all things new!” He said,“Write this: ‘These words are trustworthy and true.’”

isv@Revelation:21:6 @ Then he said to me,“It has happened! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give a drink from the spring of the water of life to the one who is thirsty.

isv@Revelation:21:7 @ The person who conquers will inherit these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

isv@Revelation:21:8 @ But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

isv@Revelation:21:9 @ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came to me and said, “Come! I will show you the bride, the wife of the lamb.”

isv@Revelation:21:10 @ He carried me away in the Spirit to a large, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven.

isv@Revelation:21:11 @ It had the glory of God, and its light was like a valuable gem, like jasper, as clear as crystal.

isv@Revelation:21:12 @ It had a large, high wall with twelve gates. Twelve angels were at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were written on the gates.

isv@Revelation:21:13 @ There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.

isv@Revelation:21:14 @ The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the lamb were written on them.

isv@Revelation:21:15 @ The angel who was talking to me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.

isv@Revelation:21:16 @ The city was square: its length was the same as its width. He measured the city with his rod, and it was 12,000 stadia long. Its length, width, and height were the same.

isv@Revelation:21:17 @ He also measured its wall. According to the human measurement that the angel was using it was 144 cubits.

isv@Revelation:21:18 @ Its wall was made of jasper. The city was made of pure gold, as clear as glass.

isv@Revelation:21:19 @ The foundations of the city wall were decorated with all kinds of gems: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,

isv@Revelation:21:20 @ the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

isv@Revelation:21:21 @ The twelve gates were twelve pearls, and each gate was made of a single pearl. The street of the city was made of pure gold, as clear as glass.

isv@Revelation:21:22 @ I saw no temple in it, because the Lord God Almighty and the lamb are its temple.

isv@Revelation:21:23 @ The city doesn't need any sun or moon to give it light, because the glory of God gave it light, and the lamb was its lamp.

isv@Revelation:21:24 @ The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.

isv@Revelation:21:25 @ Its gates will never be shut by day, because there won't be any night there.

isv@Revelation:21:26 @ People will bring the glory and wealth of the nations into it.

isv@Revelation:21:27 @ Nothing unclean, or anyone who does anything detestable, and no one who tells lies will ever enter it. Only those whose names are written in the lamb's Book of Life will enter it.

isv@Revelation:22:1 @ Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal. It was flowing from the throne of God and the lamb.

isv@Revelation:22:2 @ Between the street of the city and the river there was the tree of life visible from both sides. It produced twelve kinds of fruit, each month having its own fruit. The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

isv@Revelation:22:3 @ There will no longer be any curse. The throne of God and the lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him

isv@Revelation:22:4 @ and see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

isv@Revelation:22:5 @ There will be no more night, and they will not need any light from lamps or the sun because the Lord God will shine on them. They will rule forever and ever.

isv@Revelation:22:6 @ He said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord God of the spirits and of the prophets has sent his angel to show his servants the things that must happen soon.”

isv@Revelation:22:7 @ “See! I am coming soon! How blessed is the person who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book!”

isv@Revelation:22:8 @ I, John, heard and saw these things. When I had heard and seen them, I bowed down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing me these things.

isv@Revelation:22:9 @ But he told me, “Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you, your brothers the prophets, and those who keep the words in this book. Worship God!”

isv@Revelation:22:10 @ Then he said to me, “Don't seal up the words of the prophecy in this book, because the time is near.

isv@Revelation:22:11 @ Let the one who does what is evil continue to do evil, and let the filthy person continue to be filthy, and the righteous person continue to do what is right, and the holy person continue to be holy.”

isv@Revelation:22:12 @ “See! I am coming soon! My reward is with me to repay everyone according to his work.

isv@Revelation:22:13 @ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

isv@Revelation:22:14 @ How blessed are those who wash their robes so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city!

isv@Revelation:22:15 @ Outside are dogs, sorcerers, immoral people, murderers, idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

isv@Revelation:22:16 @ “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give this testimony to you for the churches. I am the root and descendent of David, the bright morning star.”

isv@Revelation:22:17 @ The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let everyone who hears this say, “Come!” Let everyone who is thirsty come! Let anyone who wants the water of life take it as a gift!

isv@Revelation:22:18 @ I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy in this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will strike him with the plagues that are written in this book.

isv@Revelation:22:19 @ If anyone takes away any words from the book of this prophecy, God will take away his portion of the tree of life and the holy city that are described in this book.

isv@Revelation:22:20 @ The one who is testifying to these things says,“Yes, I am coming soon!”Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!

isv@Revelation:22:21 @ May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.

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