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nsb@Matthew:1:1 @ The list of ancestors of Jesus Christ, descendant of David and Abraham:

nsb@Matthew:1:2 @ Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.

nsb@Matthew:1:3 @ Judah and Tamar were the father and mother of Perez and Zerah. Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,

nsb@Matthew:1:4 @ Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon.

nsb@Matthew:1:5 @ Salmon and Rahab were the father and mother of Boaz. Boaz and Ruth were the father and mother of Obed. Obed was the father of Jesse,

nsb@Matthew:1:6 @ Jesse the father of King David. David and Uriah’s wife Bath-sheba were the father and mother of Solomon.

nsb@Matthew:1:7 @ Solomon was the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa,

nsb@Matthew:1:8 @ Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah,

nsb@Matthew:1:9 @ Uzziah the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,

nsb@Matthew:1:10 @ Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah.

nsb@Matthew:1:11 @ Josiah was the father of Jechoniah and his brothers. They lived at the time when the people were exiled to Babylon.

nsb@Matthew:1:12 @ After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel,

nsb@Matthew:1:13 @ Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, Abiud the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,

nsb@Matthew:1:14 @ Azor the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud,

nsb@Matthew:1:15 @ Eliud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob.

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

nsb@Matthew:1:18 @ The birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: His mother Mary had been promised to Joseph in marriage. But before they were married, Mary realized that she was pregnant by Holy Spirit.

nsb@Matthew:1:20 @ Joseph had this in mind when God’s angel appeared to him in a dream. The angel said to him: »Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. She is pregnant by Holy Spirit.

nsb@Matthew:1:24 @ When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of God had commanded him to do. He took Mary to be his wife.

nsb@Matthew:2:1 @ Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of King Herod. Astrologers arrived in Jerusalem from the east.

nsb@Matthew:2:2 @ They asked: »Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and came to offer him praise.«

nsb@Matthew:2:4 @ He called together all the chief priests and teachers of the Law and asked where will the Messiah be born?

nsb@Matthew:2:6 @ »Bethlehem in the land of Judah, you are not the least of the leading cities of Judah. A leader will come out of you. He will shepherd my people Israel.«

nsb@Matthew:2:11 @ They entered the house and saw the young child with his mother Mary. They bowed down and paid him homage. Then they opened their treasure chests and offered gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

nsb@Matthew:2:13 @ When they left, the angel of God appeared to Joseph in a dream and said: »Herod is looking to kill the young child. Arise, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you to leave.«

nsb@Matthew:2:15 @ They did not return until the death of Herod. The words spoken by Jehovah through the prophet were fulfilled: »I called my son out of Egypt.« (Hosea strkjv@11:1)

nsb@Matthew:2:18 @ »A sound was heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is weeping for her children. She would not be comforted, because they were dead.«

nsb@Matthew:2:22 @ When he heard that Archelaus succeeded his father, Herod, as king of Judea, Joseph feared going. Warned in a dream, he left for Galilee instead.

nsb@Matthew:3:1 @ John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming:

nsb@Matthew:3:2 @ »Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.«

nsb@Matthew:3:3 @ Isaiah spoke of John when he said: »He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of Jehovah. Make his paths straight.’« (Isaiah strkjv@40:3)

nsb@Matthew:3:7 @ He saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism. »You offspring of vipers,« he said, »who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

nsb@Matthew:3:8 @ »Bear fruit worthy of repentance!

nsb@Matthew:3:11 @ »I baptize you with water because of your repentance. He that comes after me is mightier than I. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire. I am not even good enough to carry his sandals.

nsb@Matthew:4:3 @ Satan, the Tempter, said to him: »If you are the Son of God order these stones to turn into bread.«

nsb@Matthew:4:4 @ In reply Jesus answered: »It is written; man shall not live on bread alone, but on all that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah.« (Deuteronomy strkjv@8:3)

nsb@Matthew:4:5 @ Then the Devil took him into the holy city and had him stand on top of the Temple.

nsb@Matthew:4:6 @ »If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. The Scriptures say: ‘God will give orders to his angels about you and they will hold you with their hands, so that not even your feet will strike the ground.’«

nsb@Matthew:4:8 @ This time the Devil took Jesus to an extremely high mountain. He showed him all the kingdoms of the world with all their greatness.

nsb@Matthew:4:13 @ He left Nazareth to reside at Capernaum, a town by Lake Galilee, in the districts of Zebulun and Naphtali.

nsb@Matthew:4:15 @ »O land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, along the road of the sea, on the other side of the Jordan, Galilee of the nations!

nsb@Matthew:4:16 @ »the people sitting in darkness saw a great light. Light rose upon those sitting in a region of deathly shadow.«

nsb@Matthew:4:17 @ From that time on Jesus preached this message: »Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is near.«

nsb@Matthew:4:18 @ Jesus walked on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. There he saw Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother. They were fishermen.

nsb@Matthew:4:21 @ He saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother. They were in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.

nsb@Matthew:4:23 @ Jesus walked all over Galilee teaching in the synagogues. He preached the Good News about the Kingdom. He also healed every kind of disease and infirmity among the people.

nsb@Matthew:4:24 @ News about him spread throughout the country of Syria. People sick and suffering from diseases, people with demons, epileptics and paralytics, came to him. Jesus healed them all.

nsb@Matthew:4:25 @ Because of this, large crowds followed him from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and the land on the other side of the Jordan.

nsb@Matthew:5:1 @ Seeing great masses of people, he went up to the mountain. When he was seated his disciples came to him.

nsb@Matthew:5:3 @ »Blessed are those conscious of their spiritual need, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

nsb@Matthew:5:9 @ »Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.

nsb@Matthew:5:10 @ »Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.

nsb@Matthew:5:11 @ »Blessed are you when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.

nsb@Matthew:5:13 @ »You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.

nsb@Matthew:5:14 @ »You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill may be seen by all.

nsb@Matthew:5:19 @ »Whoever disobeys even the least of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. On the other hand whoever obeys and teaches others to obey the Law will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

nsb@Matthew:5:20 @ »I also tell you, your righteousness must be greater than the scribes and Pharisees or you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

nsb@Matthew:5:22 @ »Now I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court. Whoever speaks to his brother with words of contempt shall receive condemnation before the Sanhedrin. Curse your brother and you will be guilty enough to be destroyed by fire, with the burning trash, at the Valley of Hinnom, outside of Jerusalem.

nsb@Matthew:5:23 @ »When making an offering at the altar and you remember your brother has something against you,

nsb@Matthew:5:24 @ »leave your gift at the altar and go make peace with your brother. Then return and make your offering.

nsb@Matthew:5:26 @ »Take it from me; you will stay in jail until you pay the very last penny of your fine.

nsb@Matthew:5:29 @ »If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away! It is better to lose a part of your body then to have your whole body destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom.

nsb@Matthew:5:30 @ »If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better to lose part of your body, than for your whole body to be destroyed in the ever-burning fire.

nsb@Matthew:5:31 @ »Again, it was said, ‘Whoever gets rid of his wife has to give her a certificate of divorce.’

nsb@Matthew:5:32 @ »I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the reason of fornication, makes her liable to commit adultery. And if she marries again, the man she marries also commits adultery.

nsb@Matthew:5:34 @ »I tell you, offer no promises at all, not by heaven, because it is God’s throne.

nsb@Matthew:5:35 @ »Not by earth, for it is the footstool under His feet. Not by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

nsb@Matthew:5:45 @ »You will then act as true children of your Father in heaven. He gives sunlight to both evil and good people. He sends rain for the just and the unjust.

nsb@Matthew:5:47 @ »When you are kind only to your friends what makes you different from anyone else? Even people of the nations do that.

nsb@Matthew:6:2 @ »Do not loudly announce it when you give to the poor. The hypocrites do this in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do this to be praised by men. Believe me, they have already been paid in full.

nsb@Matthew:6:5 @ »Do not pray like the hypocrites! They want everyone to see them in the houses of worship and on the street corners. I assure you they have been paid in full.

nsb@Matthew:6:7 @ »Large quantities of meaningless words and repetition are not acceptable in prayer. The pagans think their gods will hear long and repetitious prayers.

nsb@Matthew:6:19 @ »Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.

nsb@Matthew:6:22 @ »The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.

nsb@Matthew:6:26 @ »Look at the birds of the sky, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you worth more than they?

nsb@Matthew:6:28 @ »Why are you worried about clothing? Look at how the lilies of the field grow. They do not toil. They do not spin.

nsb@Matthew:6:30 @ »If God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, won’t he care for you even more? You of little faith!

nsb@Matthew:6:32 @ »All people go in search of these things. Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

nsb@Matthew:6:33 @ »Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added to you.

nsb@Matthew:7:5 @ »You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye. Then you can see to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.

nsb@Matthew:7:12 @ »Do for others the same as you would have them to do for you. That is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.

nsb@Matthew:7:21 @ »Not everyone who calls me Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven. He who does the will of my Father in heaven will enter.

nsb@Matthew:7:23 @ »I will say to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of evil.’

nsb@Matthew:7:26 @ »Every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

nsb@Matthew:8:4 @ Jesus told him not to tell anyone. »Show yourself to the priests and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.«

nsb@Matthew:8:8 @ The centurion replied to Jesus: »Lord, I am not worthy that you come under my roof. Say the word and my servant will be healed.

nsb@Matthew:8:11 @ »I tell you, many will come from the east and the west, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:

nsb@Matthew:8:12 @ »but the sons of the kingdom will be cast forth into the outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.«

nsb@Matthew:8:14 @ Jesus went to Peter’s house. He saw his wife’s mother lying sick of a fever.

nsb@Matthew:8:18 @ Now when Jesus saw how large the crowd was growing, he gave orders to depart to the other side of the lake.

nsb@Matthew:8:20 @ Jesus replied: »Foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.«

nsb@Matthew:8:21 @ One of his disciples said: »Lord, first allow me to go bury my father.«

nsb@Matthew:8:26 @ He said to them: »Why are you afraid, you of little faith?« Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea. Suddenly there was a great calm.

nsb@Matthew:8:27 @ The disciples were in awe. They asked: »What kind of man is this, for even the winds and the sea obey him?«

nsb@Matthew:8:28 @ When he arrived at the other side of the lake in the country of the Gadarenes two men possessed by demons came to him from out of the tombs. They were extremely violent, so no man could pass by that way.

nsb@Matthew:8:29 @ They screamed at him, saying: »What have we to do with you, Son of God? Have you come to torment us before the time?«

nsb@Matthew:8:30 @ A large herd of swine was feeding in the distance.

nsb@Matthew:8:31 @ The demons pleaded with him: »If you cast us out, send us into the herd of swine!«

nsb@Matthew:9:1 @ Jesus entered a boat and crossed over to his own city, on the other side of the lake.

nsb@Matthew:9:3 @ Some of the scribes said among themselves: »This man has no respect for God.«

nsb@Matthew:9:6 @ So that you know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins: »Get up, take your bed and go to your house.«

nsb@Matthew:9:12 @ When he heard it, he said: »People who are well do not have need of a physician. The sick do.

nsb@Matthew:9:14 @ The disciples of John asked: »Why do your disciples not fast?« They frequently fasted, and so did the Pharisees.

nsb@Matthew:9:18 @ While he was speaking, an official came and paid him respect. He said: »By now my daughter must be dead. Come and lay your hand on her and she will live.«

nsb@Matthew:9:20 @ A woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years came behind him. She touched the border of his garment.

nsb@Matthew:9:23 @ Jesus went into the official’s house and saw flute players and the crowd making a lot of noise.

nsb@Matthew:9:25 @ The people were sent away. He went to the girl, took hold of her hand, and she got up.

nsb@Matthew:9:27 @ Jesus left that place and walked along the road. Two blind men followed him. They shouted: »Have mercy on us, Son of David!«

nsb@Matthew:9:31 @ They spread the news about Jesus all over that part of the country.

nsb@Matthew:9:34 @ The Pharisees complained: »He casts out demons with the help of the ruler of the demons.«

nsb@Matthew:9:35 @ Jesus went to all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the good news of the kingdom. He healed every sort of disease and every sort of infirmity.

nsb@Matthew:9:36 @ When he saw the large crowds of people, he was moved with compassion for them. He knew they were distressed and scattered like sheep not having a shepherd.

nsb@Matthew:9:38 @ »Pray that the Lord of the harvest will send out workers into his harvest.«

nsb@Matthew:10:1 @ He called his twelve disciples. He gave them power to cast out unclean spirits and to heal all kinds of disease and sickness.

nsb@Matthew:10:2 @ The following are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

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

nsb@Matthew:10:5 @ Jesus sent the twelve. He gave them orders not to go to the people of the nations and not to go to the Samaritans.

nsb@Matthew:10:6 @ He said: »Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

nsb@Matthew:10:7 @ »Preach as you go! Announce the kingdom of heaven, for it is near.

nsb@Matthew:10:10 @ »Take no extra clothes, not even two coats, no extra shoes or walking stick for the laborer is worthy of his food.

nsb@Matthew:10:12 @ »When you enter the house, offer a blessing of peace.

nsb@Matthew:10:14 @ »If someone will not welcome you and listen to the message, leave that house or town, shake the dust off your feet and move on.

nsb@Matthew:10:15 @ »I tell you, it will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that town.

nsb@Matthew:10:16 @ »I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

nsb@Matthew:10:17 @ »Beware of men! They will take you to court! They will have you beaten in their meeting places.

nsb@Matthew:10:18 @ »You will be taken before governors and kings for my sake. This will serve as a testimony to them and to the people of the nations.

nsb@Matthew:10:22 @ »Men will hate you because of me. He who endures to the end will be saved.

nsb@Matthew:10:23 @ »When they persecute you in this city, flee to the next. I tell you; before you have gone through all the cities of Israel the Son of man will come.

nsb@Matthew:10:25 @ »It is enough for the disciple that he is like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, others of the household could also be called the same!

nsb@Matthew:10:27 @ »The things I tell you in darkness, speak in the light. Proclaim everything you hear from on top of the house.

nsb@Matthew:10:29 @ »Do two sparrows sell for a penny? Not one of them will fall on the ground without your Father knowing.

nsb@Matthew:10:30 @ »Even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

nsb@Matthew:10:37 @ »He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. He who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

nsb@Matthew:10:38 @ »Anyone who does not pick up his stake and follow me is not worthy of me.

nsb@Matthew:10:41 @ »Anyone who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Anyone who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

nsb@Matthew:10:42 @ »And whoever gives a drink of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will not lose his reward.«

nsb@Matthew:11:2 @ While in prison, John heard news of what Christ was doing. He sent his disciples.

nsb@Matthew:11:6 @ »Blessed and happy is he who is not offended by me.«

nsb@Matthew:11:10 @ »This is he of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send my messenger ahead of you. He will prepare the way for you.’

nsb@Matthew:11:11 @ »I tell you, there is none, born of women, greater then John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

nsb@Matthew:11:12 @ »From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been man’s goal, and men of violence have attempted to take it by force.

nsb@Matthew:11:16 @ »Of what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their playmates.

nsb@Matthew:11:19 @ »The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘A gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Wisdom is justified by its actions.«

nsb@Matthew:11:20 @ Then he denounced the cities where most of his mighty works were done, because they did not repent.

nsb@Matthew:11:22 @ »I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the Day of Judgment than for you.

nsb@Matthew:11:24 @ »But I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the Day of Judgment, than for you.«

nsb@Matthew:11:25 @ Then Jesus prayed: »I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and have revealed them to children. (Acts strkjv@2:36)

nsb@Matthew:12:4 @ »He entered into the house of God, and he and his companions ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for them to eat. It was only lawful for the priests.

nsb@Matthew:12:5 @ »Have you read the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

nsb@Matthew:12:8 @ »For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.«

nsb@Matthew:12:11 @ He said to them: »Which of you having one sheep, if this sheep fell into a pit on the Sabbath day, will not get it and lift it out.

nsb@Matthew:12:15 @ Jesus was aware of this and withdrew from the place. Many followed him and were healed by him.

nsb@Matthew:12:23 @ The crowds were amazed, and said: »Can this be the son of David?«

nsb@Matthew:12:24 @ When the Pharisees heard it, they said: »This man casts out demons by Beelzebub, the prince of the demons.«

nsb@Matthew:12:28 @ »But if I cast out demons by God’s Spirit, then the kingdom of God has come to you.

nsb@Matthew:12:29 @ »How can one enter into the house of a strong man and steal his things, except he first tie up the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

nsb@Matthew:12:32 @ »Whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

nsb@Matthew:12:34 @ »You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

nsb@Matthew:12:35 @ »The good man performs good things out of his good treasure. The evil man performs evil things out of his evil treasure.

nsb@Matthew:12:38 @ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: »Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.«

nsb@Matthew:12:39 @ He answered them: »An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. No sign will be given but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

nsb@Matthew:12:40 @ »Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

nsb@Matthew:12:41 @ »The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it. After all, they repented at the preaching of Jonah. Yet someone greater than Jonah is here.

nsb@Matthew:12:42 @ »The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it. She came from the ends of the earth to hear the Wisdom of Solomon. Someone greater than Solomon is here!

nsb@Matthew:12:43 @ »When an unclean spirit goes out of a man it passes through the desert seeking rest. It does not find it.

nsb@Matthew:12:45 @ »Then it takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself. They enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. It will also be like this with this evil generation.«

nsb@Matthew:12:50 @ »For everyone who does the will of my Father who is in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother.«

nsb@Matthew:13:11 @ He responded: »You are allowed to know the divine secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not for others to know.

nsb@Matthew:13:12 @ »He who has shall receive more to the point of abundance. He who does not have, it shall be taken away including that which he has.

nsb@Matthew:13:14 @ »The prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled. ‘By hearing, you shall hear, and shall in no way understand. By seeing you shall see, and shall in no way perceive.

nsb@Matthew:13:15 @ »‘The heart of this people is callous and dull. Their ears are plugged. They cannot hear. They closed their eyes and cannot see. They cannot see nor hear nor understand with their heart. They should turn around and I would heal them.’

nsb@Matthew:13:18 @ »Listen to the illustration of the sower.

nsb@Matthew:13:19 @ »When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the evil one takes away that which was sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

nsb@Matthew:13:21 @ »There is no root in him. He endures for a while. When he has tribulation or persecution because of the word, he falls away.

nsb@Matthew:13:22 @ »He that was sown among thorns hears the word. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

nsb@Matthew:13:24 @ He told another illustration, saying: »The kingdom of heaven is like a man that sowed good seed in his field.

nsb@Matthew:13:27 @ »The servants of the householder said to him: ‘Sir, did you sow good seed in your field? Why does it have weeds mixed in with the good wheat?’

nsb@Matthew:13:28 @ »He replied: ‘An enemy did this.’ The servants offered to remove the weeds.

nsb@Matthew:13:30 @ »‘Let both grow together until the harvest. In the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: »Gather weeds first, and bind them in bundles to burn them. Then gather the wheat into my barn.« ’«

nsb@Matthew:13:31 @ In another illustration Jesus said: »The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man sowed in his field.

nsb@Matthew:13:32 @ »Mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds. Yet when it grows it becomes as large as a tree. In fact the birds of heaven lodge in the branches.«

nsb@Matthew:13:33 @ He offered another illustration: »The kingdom of heaven is similar to leaven. A woman hid leaven in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.«

nsb@Matthew:13:35 @ That which was spoken through the prophet was fulfilled, saying: »I will open my mouth in illustrations. I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.«

nsb@Matthew:13:36 @ Then he left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples gathered near him. They said: »Explain to us the illustration of the weeds in the field.«

nsb@Matthew:13:37 @ Jesus said: »He that sows the good seed is the Son of man.

nsb@Matthew:13:38 @ »The field is the world. The good seed are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one.

nsb@Matthew:13:39 @ »The enemy that sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are angels.

nsb@Matthew:13:40 @ »The weeds are gathered up and burned with fire. It will be this way at the end of the age.

nsb@Matthew:13:41 @ »The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all who stumble others and commit lawlessness.

nsb@Matthew:13:42 @ »The angels will cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

nsb@Matthew:13:43 @ »The righteous will shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears let him hear.

nsb@Matthew:13:44 @ »The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. A man found the treasure and hid it again in the field. He is so filled with joy he sells everything he owns and buys the field.

nsb@Matthew:13:45 @ »The kingdom of heaven is also like a merchant seeking valuable pearls.

nsb@Matthew:13:46 @ »When he found one pearl of great value, he sold all that he had, and bought it.

nsb@Matthew:13:47 @ »The kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea. It gathered fish of every kind.

nsb@Matthew:13:49 @ »It will be that way at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous.

nsb@Matthew:13:50 @ »The wicked will be cast into the furnace of fire where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

nsb@Matthew:13:52 @ And he said to them: »Every scribe who has been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like a man that is a householder, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.«

nsb@Matthew:13:58 @ He did not do many mighty works there because of their lack of faith.

nsb@Matthew:14:1 @ At that time Herod, the ruler of Galilee, heard the news about Jesus.

nsb@Matthew:14:6 @ It was Herod’s birthday. The daughter of Herodias danced for him and pleased him.

nsb@Matthew:14:20 @ And they all had plenty to eat. In fact they had twelve baskets full of food left over.

nsb@Matthew:14:22 @ Jesus sent the disciples in a boat to the other side of the sea. He stayed there until he sent the crowd away.

nsb@Matthew:14:24 @ But the boat was now in the middle of the sea. The wind and the waves caused great trouble.

nsb@Matthew:14:29 @ He said: »Come.« Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus.

nsb@Matthew:14:31 @ Suddenly, Jesus put out his hand and took hold of him, and said: »You of little faith, why were you in doubt?«

nsb@Matthew:14:33 @ Those on the boat loved him intensely, saying: »Truly, you are the Son of God!«

nsb@Matthew:14:35 @ When the men of that place heard the news about Jesus they told everyone in the country. The sick were taken to him.

nsb@Matthew:15:2 @ They questioned him: »Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? They eat food with unwashed hands.«

nsb@Matthew:15:3 @ His answer to them was in the form of a question: »Why do you go against the word of God in favor of your tradition?

nsb@Matthew:15:4 @ »God said, ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ‘He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.’

nsb@Matthew:15:6 @ »You say there is no need for him to give honor to his father. You have invalidated the word of God because of your tradition!

nsb@Matthew:15:9 @ »‘But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.’«

nsb@Matthew:15:11 @ »That which comes out of the mouth makes a man unclean, not that which goes into the mouth.«

nsb@Matthew:15:18 @ »That which comes out of the mouth, comes from the heart and makes a man unclean.

nsb@Matthew:15:21 @ Jesus went away from there into the country of Tyre and Sidon.

nsb@Matthew:15:22 @ A woman of Canaan came crying and saying: »Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.«

nsb@Matthew:15:24 @ He answered: »I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.«

nsb@Matthew:15:29 @ Jesus went from there to the Sea of Galilee. He went up into the mountain and sat down.

nsb@Matthew:15:31 @ The people marveled as they saw the mute speak, the crippled and lame walk, and the blind see. They glorified the God of Israel.

nsb@Matthew:15:36 @ He took the seven loaves and the fish and offered a prayer of thanksgiving. Then he broke them and gave them to the disciples. The disciples gave them to the people.

nsb@Matthew:15:37 @ They all ate and were satisfied. When they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, there were seven large baskets full.

nsb@Matthew:15:39 @ After dismissing the crowds, Jesus took a boat to the region of Magadan.

nsb@Matthew:16:3 @ »And in the morning, the weather will be bad today for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the time.

nsb@Matthew:16:4 @ »An evil and false generation is searching after a sign. However, no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.« Then he left them.

nsb@Matthew:16:5 @ The disciples came from the other side of the sea. They did not think to obtain bread.

nsb@Matthew:16:6 @ Jesus said: »Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.«

nsb@Matthew:16:8 @ Hearing this, Jesus said: »You of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves about not having bread?

nsb@Matthew:16:9 @ »Do you still not see or remember the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

nsb@Matthew:16:10 @ »Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

nsb@Matthew:16:11 @ »Why do you not understand I was not talking about bread? Instead, about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?«

nsb@Matthew:16:12 @ Then they realized it was not the leaven of bread he had in mind. It was the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

nsb@Matthew:16:13 @ Jesus traveled to parts of Caesarea Philippi. He asked his disciples: »Who do men say that the Son of man is?«

nsb@Matthew:16:14 @ They said: »John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.«

nsb@Matthew:16:16 @ Simon Peter answered: »You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!«

nsb@Matthew:16:17 @ Jesus answered him: »Bless you, Simon son of John. This knowledge came from my Father in heaven and not from man.

nsb@Matthew:16:19 @ »I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what is improper and unlawful in heaven, and whatever you declare lawful on earth must be lawful in heaven.«

nsb@Matthew:16:21 @ From that time forward Jesus made it clear to his disciples how he would have to go to Jerusalem. He told them he would undergo much at the hands of the authorities, including the chief priests and scribes. He let them know he would be put to death. The third day he would come back from the dead.

nsb@Matthew:16:22 @ Peter protested and rebuked Jesus. He said: »Do not think of that, Lord; it will never happen to you.«

nsb@Matthew:16:23 @ He turned to Peter and said: »Get behind me, Satan. You are a stumbling block to me. You think the things of men, not of God.«

nsb@Matthew:16:26 @ »What will a man profit, if he gains the whole world, and gives up his life? What will a man give in exchange for his life?

nsb@Matthew:16:27 @ »The Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels. He will then reward each man according to his deeds.

nsb@Matthew:16:28 @ »I tell you truly, there are some that stand here who will not experience death till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.«

nsb@Matthew:17:5 @ While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them. A voice came out of the cloud, saying: »This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.«

nsb@Matthew:17:9 @ When they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone what they saw, until the Son of man has risen from the dead.

nsb@Matthew:17:12 @ »I tell you that Elijah has come. They did not know him and treated him badly as they pleased. They will do the same with the Son of man.«

nsb@Matthew:17:20 @ He told them: »It was because of your lack of faith: Truly I say to you, if you have faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move and it will move. Nothing will be impossible to you.«

nsb@Matthew:17:22 @ While they were traveling in Galilee, Jesus said to them: »The Son of man will be given up into the hands of men.

nsb@Matthew:17:24 @ They arrived at Capernaum. The collectors of the two-drachma tax asked Peter: »Does your master make payment of the Temple tax?

nsb@Matthew:17:25 @ He said: »Yes.« When he entered the house, Jesus said to him: »What is your opinion, Simon? Who pays the tax assessed by the kings of the earth? Is it from their sons or from other people?«

nsb@Matthew:17:26 @ When he said: »From other people,« Jesus replied: »Are the sons free of tax?

nsb@Matthew:18:1 @ In that hour the disciples came to Jesus. They asked: »Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?«

nsb@Matthew:18:2 @ He took a little child and put him in the middle of them.

nsb@Matthew:18:3 @ He said: »Truly I tell you, if you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.

nsb@Matthew:18:4 @ »He who humbles himself to become like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

nsb@Matthew:18:6 @ »He who causes one of my faithful little ones to stumble is in trouble. It would be better for him to end up in the deep sea with a great stone tied to his neck.

nsb@Matthew:18:7 @ »A curse is on the earth because of stumbling! It is necessary for stumbling to come. Unhappy is that man through whom the stumbling comes.

nsb@Matthew:18:8 @ »If your hand or your foot is a cause of stumbling cut it off. Get rid of it. It is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to be destroyed by eternal fire.

nsb@Matthew:18:9 @ »If your eye causes you stumbling, take it out and throw it away. It is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to be destroyed in ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom.

nsb@Matthew:18:10 @ »Do not treat these little ones badly. I tell you that angels represent them in the presence of my Father in heaven.

nsb@Matthew:18:12 @ »What do you think? A man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away. Will he leave the ninety-nine and go in search of the wandering one?

nsb@Matthew:18:14 @ »Even so, your Father in heaven does not want any of these little ones to be lost.

nsb@Matthew:18:17 @ »If he will not listen to them, let it come to the attention of the congregation. If he will not listen to the congregation, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax collector.

nsb@Matthew:18:19 @ »Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

nsb@Matthew:18:23 @ »The kingdom of heaven is like a king who went over his accounts with his servants.

nsb@Matthew:18:25 @ »He was not able to make payment. So his lord gave orders for him to be sold. His wife, sons, and daughters were all to be sold along with every possession. The money would be used for payment of what he owed.

nsb@Matthew:18:26 @ »So the servant fell on his face out of respect. He said: ‘Lord, give me time to make payment and I will pay everything.’

nsb@Matthew:18:27 @ »Being moved with pity, the lord let him go, and made him free of the debt.

nsb@Matthew:18:32 @ »His lord sent for him, and said: ‘Evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me.

nsb@Matthew:18:34 @ »His lord was angry and sent him to jail to be punished until he paid back all of his debt.

nsb@Matthew:19:1 @ When Jesus finished speaking, he departed from Galilee. He went to the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

nsb@Matthew:19:2 @ Large crowds followed him, and he healed many of them.

nsb@Matthew:19:7 @ They asked him: »Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, to send her away?«

nsb@Matthew:19:8 @ He answered: »Moses allowed you to send your wives away because of your hardness of heart. It was not allowed from the beginning.

nsb@Matthew:19:12 @ »For there are men who, from birth, were without sex. There are some who were made that way by men. There are others who have made themselves so for the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this let him accept it.«

nsb@Matthew:19:14 @ Jesus said: »Let the little ones come to me. Do not keep them away: for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.«

nsb@Matthew:19:23 @ Jesus said to his disciples: »Truly I tell you, it is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.

nsb@Matthew:19:24 @ »Again I say, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.«

nsb@Matthew:19:28 @ Jesus replied: »Truly I say to you, when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

nsb@Matthew:20:1 @ »The kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

nsb@Matthew:20:8 @ »When evening came, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager: ‘Let the workers come and pay them from the last to the first.’

nsb@Matthew:20:11 @ »When they got it, they protested against the master of the house.

nsb@Matthew:20:12 @ »They said: ‘The last ones have done only one hour’s work. You have made them equal to us. We have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.’

nsb@Matthew:20:18 @ »When we get to Jerusalem,« he said, »The Son of man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes. They will give orders for him to be put to death.

nsb@Matthew:20:19 @ »They will turn him over to the heathen to be made sport of and to be whipped. He will be put to death on the stake. The third day he will come back from the dead.«

nsb@Matthew:20:20 @ The mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons. She bowed down and requested a favor of him.

nsb@Matthew:20:22 @ Jesus told her: »You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup I am about to take? »

nsb@Matthew:20:23 @ They said: »We are able.« »Truly, you will take of my cup,« he said. »But to be seated at my right hand and at my left is not for me to give. It is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.«

nsb@Matthew:20:25 @ Jesus called them to himself and said: »You know that the rulers of the nations exercise absolute dominion over them. They lord it over them and behave like tyrants.

nsb@Matthew:20:28 @ »The Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom in payment for many.«

nsb@Matthew:20:30 @ Two blind men sitting by the side of the road heard Jesus pass by and cried out: »Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!«

nsb@Matthew:20:31 @ The crowd told them to be quiet. But they cried even more, saying: »Have mercy on us, O Lord, you Son of David!«

nsb@Matthew:21:1 @ They were near Jerusalem at Bethphage. Jesus sent two disciples to the Mount of Olives.

nsb@Matthew:21:4 @ This took place so that the words of the prophet might come true:

nsb@Matthew:21:5 @ »Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, humble, and seated on a donkey, a colt, the offspring of a beast of burden.’«

nsb@Matthew:21:8 @ Most of the people spread their garments on the road. Others took branches from the trees and put them on the road.

nsb@Matthew:21:9 @ Those going ahead of him and following him shouted praise: »Glory to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of Jehovah! Glory in the highest!« (Psalms strkjv@118:26)

nsb@Matthew:21:11 @ Other people said: »This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.«

nsb@Matthew:21:12 @ Jesus went into the Temple and drove out all who were trading there. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those trading in doves.

nsb@Matthew:21:13 @ He told them: »It is written, ‘My house is to be named a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a hiding place of thieves.«

nsb@Matthew:21:15 @ The chief priests and the scribes saw the powerful works he did. They heard the children crying out in the Temple: »Glory to the son of David.« This made them very angry.

nsb@Matthew:21:16 @ »Have you any idea what these people are saying?« Jesus answered: »Yes. It is written, ‘From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete.’«

nsb@Matthew:21:17 @ He left them and went out of the town to Bethany where he stayed for the night.

nsb@Matthew:21:19 @ He saw a fig tree along the side of the road. He went to it and saw nothing on it but leaves. He told it: »You will not bare fruit from this time forward, forever.« Immediately the fig tree became dry and dead.

nsb@Matthew:21:25 @ »Where did the baptism of John come from? Was it from heaven or from men?« They talked among themselves. »If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not have faith in him?’

nsb@Matthew:21:31 @ »Which of the two pleased his father?« They replied: »The first.« Jesus said to them: »I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes will go into the kingdom of God before you.«

nsb@Matthew:21:32 @ »John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him. Even the tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. When you saw this, you did not regret your sins and did not have faith in him.

nsb@Matthew:21:33 @ »Listen to another illustration. A master of a house made a vineyard, and put a wall around it. He made a wine press and built a tower. Then he rented it to workers and traveled to another country.

nsb@Matthew:21:39 @ »They took him out of the vineyard and killed him.

nsb@Matthew:21:40 @ »When the lord of the vineyard returns, what will he do to the workmen?«

nsb@Matthew:21:42 @ Jesus said to them: »Have you read the Scriptures, ‘The stone the builders rejected has been made the chief cornerstone of the building. This was Jehovah’s doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.’ (Isaiah strkjv@28:16)

nsb@Matthew:21:43 @ »For this reason I tell you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you. It will be given to a nation producing fruit.

nsb@Matthew:22:2 @ »The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.

nsb@Matthew:22:11 @ »When the king met the guests he found that one of them was not wearing the right kind of clothes for the wedding.

nsb@Matthew:22:16 @ They sent their disciples with the Herodians to Jesus. They said: »Teacher we know you are truthful. You teach the way of God in truth. And you are not partial to the influence of men.

nsb@Matthew:22:28 @ »In the resurrection, with which of the seven will she be married? All seven had her.«

nsb@Matthew:22:29 @ Jesus answered: »You are mistaken! You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.

nsb@Matthew:22:31 @ »Concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you read that which was spoken to you by God?

nsb@Matthew:22:32 @ »God said: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living!«

nsb@Matthew:22:35 @ One of them, a lawyer, tested him by asking a question.

nsb@Matthew:22:42 @ »What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?« They said: »The son of David.«

nsb@Matthew:23:6 @ »They love the place of honor at banquets and the prominent seats in the synagogues.

nsb@Matthew:23:13 @ »Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You close the kingdom of heaven to people. You do not invite others to enter nor do you enter.

nsb@Matthew:23:15 @ »Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel on both sea and land to make one convert. When this happens, you make him twice as deserving of destruction in the trash fires of the valley of Hinnom.

nsb@Matthew:23:16 @ »Woe to you, you blind guides! You say, ‘When you swear by the temple, it is nothing.’ Then you say, ‘When you swear by the gold of the temple, you are obligated.’

nsb@Matthew:23:22 @ »Thus, he who swears by heaven also swears by the throne of God and him who sits on it.

nsb@Matthew:23:23 @ »Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.

nsb@Matthew:23:25 @ »Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, yet the inside is full of extortion and excess.

nsb@Matthew:23:26 @ »You are blind. Clean the inside of the cup and platter first. Then clean the outside.

nsb@Matthew:23:27 @ »Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that appear beautiful on the outside. They are full of dead men’s bones and uncleanness on the inside.

nsb@Matthew:23:28 @ »You appear righteous to men. However, inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

nsb@Matthew:23:29 @ »Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous.

nsb@Matthew:23:30 @ »You claim that you would not have been involved with your fathers when they spilled the blood of the prophets.

nsb@Matthew:23:31 @ »You witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

nsb@Matthew:23:32 @ »Fill up the measure of your fathers.

nsb@Matthew:23:33 @ »You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom?

nsb@Matthew:23:34 @ »Look! I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will torture and kill. Others you will torment and persecute from city to city.

nsb@Matthew:23:35 @ »You are responsible for all the righteous blood shed on earth. That includes the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

nsb@Matthew:23:37 @ »Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone the messengers who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings. But you were not willing!

nsb@Matthew:23:39 @ »I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he that comes in the name of Jehovah.’« (Psalm strkjv@118:26)

nsb@Matthew:24:1 @ After Jesus left the temple, his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.

nsb@Matthew:24:3 @ He sat on the Mount of Olives. The disciples came to him privately, saying: »Tell us when these things will be? What will be the sign of your presence and of the end of the age?«

nsb@Matthew:24:6 @ »You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Do not be troubled, for this must happen, but the end is not yet.

nsb@Matthew:24:8 @ »These things are the beginning of birth pains.

nsb@Matthew:24:12 @ »Wickedness and lawlessness will increase. The love of many will grow cold.

nsb@Matthew:24:14 @ »The good news of the kingdom will be preached in the entire world for a witness to all the nations and then the end will come.

nsb@Matthew:24:15 @ »When you see the disgusting abomination of desolation spoken about through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place,

nsb@Matthew:24:21 @ »There will be great tribulation. It will be greater than any has ever been from the beginning of the world until now.

nsb@Matthew:24:22 @ »Unless those days are shortened, no flesh will be saved. For the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

nsb@Matthew:24:24 @ »There will be false Christs and false prophets. They will show great signs and wonders so that many will be misled. This includes some of the chosen ones.

nsb@Matthew:24:27 @ »Lightning comes from the east and is seen in the west. The coming of the Son of man is like this.

nsb@Matthew:24:28 @ »The eagles will gather at the place of the carcass.

nsb@Matthew:24:29 @ »Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened. The moon will not give light. The stars will fall from heaven. The powers of the heavens will be shaken.

nsb@Matthew:24:30 @ »The sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of earth will mourn. They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

nsb@Matthew:24:31 @ »He will send his angels with a great trumpet sound. They will gather together the anointed from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

nsb@Matthew:24:32 @ »Learn from the illustration of the fig tree. When the branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.

nsb@Matthew:24:36 @ »No one knows the day and the hour. The angels of heaven do not know. The Son does not know. Only the Father knows!

nsb@Matthew:24:37 @ »The presence of the Son of man will be similar to the days of Noah.

nsb@Matthew:24:39 @ »They were not aware until the Flood came and took them all away. The coming of the Son of man will be like this.

nsb@Matthew:24:43 @ »Know this, if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have watched and his house would not have been vandalized.

nsb@Matthew:24:44 @ »Be prepared! The Son of man will come at a time when you do not expect it.

nsb@Matthew:24:45 @ »Who then is the faithful, thoughtful, and wise servant, whom his lord put in charge of his other servants, to give them their food at the proper time?

nsb@Matthew:24:47 @ »I tell you, he will put him in charge of everything he owns.

nsb@Matthew:24:50 @ »the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect it, an hour when he is unaware.

nsb@Matthew:25:1 @ »The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

nsb@Matthew:25:2 @ »Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

nsb@Matthew:25:9 @ »But the wise answered: ‘There will not be enough for both of us. Go to the dealers and buy oil for yourself.’

nsb@Matthew:25:14 @ »It is like a man going to another country. He called his servants and put them in charge of his property.

nsb@Matthew:25:19 @ »After a long time the lord of those servants came back to settle with them.

nsb@Matthew:25:21 @ »His lord said: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, so I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

nsb@Matthew:25:23 @ »His lord said: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a few things. I will appoint you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

nsb@Matthew:25:30 @ »‘Throw the worthless servant into outer darkness. There will be crying and grinding of teeth.’

nsb@Matthew:25:31 @ »When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.

nsb@Matthew:25:34 @ »The King will say to those on his right hand: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

nsb@Matthew:25:40 @ »The King will answer: ‘To the extent that you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me.’

nsb@Matthew:25:45 @ »The King will answer: ‘To the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of my brothers, you did not do it to me.’

nsb@Matthew:26:2 @ »As you know, the Passover will be here in two days. At that time the Son of man will be captured and impaled.«

nsb@Matthew:26:3 @ The chief priest and the elders of the people assembled at the court of Caiaphas, the high priest.

nsb@Matthew:26:4 @ All of them, using deceit, worked together to capture Jesus and kill him.

nsb@Matthew:26:6 @ Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper.

nsb@Matthew:26:10 @ Jesus was aware of this and said: »Why do you trouble the woman? Her expression to me was good.

nsb@Matthew:26:13 @ »I tell you, Everywhere this good news is preached in the entire world, this good deed done by this woman will be spoken of in memory of her.«

nsb@Matthew:26:14 @ Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests.

nsb@Matthew:26:15 @ He asked them: »What are you willing to give me to deliver him to you?« They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

nsb@Matthew:26:17 @ The first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus. They asked: »Where do you wish to eat the Passover?«

nsb@Matthew:26:21 @ While they ate, he said: »One of you will betray me.«

nsb@Matthew:26:24 @ »It is written that the Son of man will depart. The man who betrays him will experience much grief. It would have been better if that man had not been born.«

nsb@Matthew:26:28 @ »This is my blood of the covenant, poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.

nsb@Matthew:26:29 @ »I tell you, I shall not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.«

nsb@Matthew:26:30 @ After they sang a song of praise to God, they went to the Mount of Olives.

nsb@Matthew:26:31 @ Jesus said to them: »All of you will fall away because of me tonight. It is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

nsb@Matthew:26:32 @ »When I am raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.«

nsb@Matthew:26:33 @ Peter answered: »Even if everyone falls away because of you, I will never fall away.«

nsb@Matthew:26:37 @ He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. He was sorrowful and very troubled.

nsb@Matthew:26:38 @ He told them: »My heart is deeply grieved to the point of death. Stay with me and watch.«

nsb@Matthew:26:45 @ After returning to the disciples, he said: »Do you sleep now and take your rest? The hour is here and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

nsb@Matthew:26:47 @ As he spoke, Judas, one of the twelve, followed by a crowd carrying swords and spears, approached him. The chief priest and elders of the people had sent them.

nsb@Matthew:26:51 @ Look, one of them with Jesus stretched out his hand, drew his sword, and cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest.

nsb@Matthew:26:53 @ »Do you think I cannot ask my Father for help? He would send me more than twelve legions of angels.

nsb@Matthew:26:56 @ »This has taken place so that the writings of the prophets will come true.« Then all his disciples left him.

nsb@Matthew:26:57 @ Those who captured Jesus took him to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest. The scribes and those in authority also gathered there.

nsb@Matthew:26:58 @ But Peter kept his distance. He followed him to the courtyard of the high priest. He entered and sat down with the servants, to see the outcome.

nsb@Matthew:26:60 @ They failed, even though a number of false witnesses came.

nsb@Matthew:26:61 @ Later two witnesses came. They said: »This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the Temple of God and to rebuild it in three days.’«

nsb@Matthew:26:63 @ Jesus said nothing. The high priest said to him: »I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.«

nsb@Matthew:26:64 @ Jesus said to him: »You said it yourself. And I say to you, after this you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven.«

nsb@Matthew:26:65 @ Then the high priest ripped his robes apart and said: »He has said evil against God! Why do we need more witnesses? You have heard his words of blasphemy!«

nsb@Matthew:26:70 @ In front of everybody, he replied: »I do not know what you are talking about.«

nsb@Matthew:26:72 @ Again he denied with an oath: »I have no knowledge of the man.«

nsb@Matthew:26:73 @ A few moments later, those who were near approached and said to Peter: »Indeed, you are one of them, because the way you speak gives you away.«

nsb@Matthew:27:3 @ Judas, his betrayer, heard he was to be put to death. Out of regret, he took the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and those in authority.

nsb@Matthew:27:6 @ The chief priests took the silver. They said: »It is not right to put it in the Temple treasury, for it is the price of blood.«

nsb@Matthew:27:8 @ This is the reason the field was named »Field of Blood.«

nsb@Matthew:27:9 @ Then Jeremiah’s prophecy was fulfilled: »They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price he was valued by the children of Israel.

nsb@Matthew:27:11 @ Jesus stood before the governor. He asked him: »Are you the King of the Jews?« Jesus said to him: »It is as you say.«

nsb@Matthew:27:15 @ It was a custom for the governor to set one prisoner free at the time of the feast. The people were to help choose that prisoner.

nsb@Matthew:27:18 @ He knew it was because of envy they gave him up.

nsb@Matthew:27:19 @ While he was seated in judgment his wife sent a message to him. She said, »Do not judge that righteous man. I have had much trouble this day in a dream because of him.«

nsb@Matthew:27:21 @ The governor responded to them. He asked: »Which of the two do you want me to set free?« They shouted: »Barabbas!«

nsb@Matthew:27:24 @ Pilate saw that he could do nothing. The people were ready to cause much trouble. He took water and washed his hands in front of the people. He said: »The blood of this man is not on my hands. You are responsible.«

nsb@Matthew:27:28 @ They took off his clothes and dressed him in a scarlet robe.

nsb@Matthew:27:29 @ They made a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They placed a rod in his right hand. Then they bowed down on their knees before him. They mocked him, saying: »Long life to the King of the Jews.«

nsb@Matthew:27:31 @ After they mocked him, they took off the robe. He was dressed in his garments and he was led away to be impaled.

nsb@Matthew:27:33 @ Golgotha, the Place of the Skull, was to be his final destination.

nsb@Matthew:27:37 @ A sign was placed above his head with an accusation written: »This is Jesus the King of the Jews.«

nsb@Matthew:27:40 @ and said, »You who would destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God come down from the stake.«

nsb@Matthew:27:42 @ They said: »He saved others, but cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him now come down from the stake and we will believe in him.«

nsb@Matthew:27:43 @ He trusts in God. Let him save him now if he wants him. After all he said: »I am the Son of God.«

nsb@Matthew:27:48 @ Suddenly, one of them ran, took a sponge, filled it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink.

nsb@Matthew:27:51 @ The veil of the temple was ripped in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks split.

nsb@Matthew:27:54 @ The centurion and those who were with him watching Jesus saw the earthquake. Filled with much fear of the things that were done, they proclaimed: »Truly, this was the Son of God!«

nsb@Matthew:27:56 @ Included among the women were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

nsb@Matthew:27:57 @ A disciple of Jesus named Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea,

nsb@Matthew:27:58 @ went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate commanded that it be given to him.

nsb@Matthew:27:60 @ He laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone in front of the door of the tomb, and departed.

nsb@Matthew:28:1 @ Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

nsb@Matthew:28:2 @ Suddenly there was a great earthquake, as an angel of God descended from heaven and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

nsb@Matthew:28:9 @ Jesus met them and greeted them. They approached and took hold of his feet and kissed them in adoration.

nsb@Matthew:28:11 @ While they were going, some of the guard came into the city. They told the chief priests all the things that happened.

nsb@Matthew:28:19 @ »Go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

nsb@Matthew:28:20 @ »Teach them to observe all the things I have commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.«

nsb@Mark:1:1 @ The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

nsb@Mark:1:2 @ The prophet Isaiah wrote: »I am sending my messenger ahead of you to prepare your way.«

nsb@Mark:1:3 @ »The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of Jehovah, make his paths straight.« (Isaiah strkjv@40:3)

nsb@Mark:1:4 @ John the Baptist was in the desert telling people to repent and be baptized for forgiveness of sins.

nsb@Mark:1:5 @ People from the province of Judea and the city of Jerusalem went out to hear John. They confessed their sins and he baptized them in the Jordan River.

nsb@Mark:1:9 @ Soon Jesus came from Nazareth in the province of Galilee. John baptized Jesus in the Jordan River.

nsb@Mark:1:10 @ When Jesus came out of the water he saw the heavens open and the Spirit descended on him like a dove.

nsb@Mark:1:13 @ Satan tempted Jesus. This lasted forty days. The angels took care of Jesus.

nsb@Mark:1:14 @ After John was locked in prison Jesus went to Galilee and preached the Good News of God to the people.

nsb@Mark:1:15 @ Jesus said: »The time has come. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the good news.«

nsb@Mark:1:16 @ Walking by the Sea of Galilee he saw two fishermen Simon and Andrew, Simon’s brother. They were casting a net into the sea.

nsb@Mark:1:19 @ Jesus then saw James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in a boat preparing their nets to go fishing.

nsb@Mark:1:21 @ Jesus and his followers traveled to Capernaum. On the day of worship Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

nsb@Mark:1:24 @ »What do you want with us Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are the Holy One of God!«

nsb@Mark:1:25 @ Jesus rebuked the spirit by saying: »Be quiet, and come out of him!«

nsb@Mark:1:26 @ The evil spirit shook the man hard, gave a loud scream, and came out of him.

nsb@Mark:1:28 @ His fame spread to the entire country of Galilee.

nsb@Mark:1:29 @ Jesus and his disciples, including James and John, left the synagogue and went directly to the home of Simon and Andrew.

nsb@Mark:1:33 @ A huge crowd of people from all over Capernaum gathered outside to watch.

nsb@Mark:1:39 @ He went to Synagogues in every part of Galilee, preaching and driving out evil spirits.

nsb@Mark:1:40 @ A man with leprosy knelt in front of Jesus and begged to be healed. »If you want to, you can make me well,« he said.

nsb@Mark:1:44 @ »Do not talk to anyone along the way. Take the offering the Law of Moses requires for those healed of leprosy. That way everyone will have proof of your healing.«

nsb@Mark:1:45 @ But the man gave a public account of his healing everywhere he went. Soon crowds surrounded Jesus and he could not enter a town publicly. He had to stay in secluded places and people continued to come to him.

nsb@Mark:2:4 @ They could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd. So they removed the roof over the place where Jesus was. Then they lowered the cot on which the paralyzed man was lying.

nsb@Mark:2:6 @ Some of the scribes sitting there reasoned in their hearts:

nsb@Mark:2:10 @ »So you may see that the Son of man has authority to forgive sins on earth,« he said to the man:

nsb@Mark:2:14 @ He saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, seated at the place where taxes were collected. He said to him: »Come with me.« And he got up and went with him.

nsb@Mark:2:15 @ He was reclining at the meal in his house. Several tax collectors and sinners were at the table with Jesus and his disciples. There were a great number of them, and they came after him.

nsb@Mark:2:16 @ When the scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with the tax collectors and sinners they asked his disciples: »Why does he take food and drink with such men?«

nsb@Mark:2:17 @ Jesus heard this. He said to them: »Those who are well have no need of a medical man but those who are ill do. I have come to care for sinners not the upright.«

nsb@Mark:2:18 @ John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. They came to him and asked: »Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast but your disciples do not?«

nsb@Mark:2:19 @ Jesus replied: »Will the friends of a newly married man practice fasting while he is with them? As long as they have him with them they will not go without food.

nsb@Mark:2:21 @ »No man puts a patch of new cloth on an old coat. The new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

nsb@Mark:2:23 @ Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath day. While they walked his disciples took the heads of grain.

nsb@Mark:2:25 @ He said: »Do you not know of what David did when he needed food for himself and his companions?

nsb@Mark:2:26 @ »He went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest. David took the holy bread for food and gave to his companions. Only the priests may take the holy bread.

nsb@Mark:2:28 @ »The Son of man is lord even of the Sabbath.«

nsb@Mark:3:5 @ He looked at them and was angry. He was also sad on account of their hard hearts. He said to the man: »Stretch out your hand.« He stretched it out and his hand was healed.

nsb@Mark:3:11 @ The unclean spirits fell down before him and cried: You are the Son of God.

nsb@Mark:3:17 @ James the son of Zebedee, John the brother of James surnamed Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:

nsb@Mark:3:18 @ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananaean.

nsb@Mark:3:21 @ When his own people heard of this they went to apprehend him. They said: »He has lost his senses.«

nsb@Mark:3:22 @ Scribes that came down from Jerusalem said: »He has Beelzebub. He casts out demons by the prince of the demons.«

nsb@Mark:3:27 @ »No one can enter into the house of the strong man and steal his property unless he first captures the strong man. Then he will steal his property.

nsb@Mark:3:28 @ »I tell you sins will be forgiven of the sons of men, and their evil talk will be forgiven.

nsb@Mark:3:29 @ »But whoever speaks evil and defames Holy Spirit will not be forgiven but is guilty of an eternal sin.«

nsb@Mark:3:35 @ »For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.«

nsb@Mark:4:11 @ He told them: »The secret of the kingdom of God is given to you. Illustrations are spoken to outsiders.

nsb@Mark:4:13 @ Then he asked: »Do you not understand this illustration? How will you understand any of the illustrations?

nsb@Mark:4:16 @ »The same is so of the word sown upon the rocky places. When they have heard the word and receive it with joy,

nsb@Mark:4:19 @ but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things enter in and choke the word. So it becomes unfruitful.

nsb@Mark:4:26 @ He added: »The kingdom of God is like this. A man plants seed in the earth.

nsb@Mark:4:30 @ He said: »What illustration should we use to picture the kingdom of God? What story will make it clear?

nsb@Mark:4:31 @ »It is like a grain of mustard seed. When it is planted in the earth it is smaller than all the seeds on the earth.

nsb@Mark:4:32 @ »But when it is planted it grows and becomes taller than all the plants. It grows out great branches so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.«

nsb@Mark:4:38 @ He was in back of the boat sleeping on a cushion. They woke him. They said: »Master is it nothing to you that we are in danger of destruction?«

nsb@Mark:4:40 @ He said: »Why are you full of fear? Do you have no faith?«

nsb@Mark:5:1 @ They traveled to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.

nsb@Mark:5:2 @ Just as he got out of the boat a man with an unclean spirit came to him from the tombs.

nsb@Mark:5:4 @ Often he was bound in chains and iron bands but he would break them. No man was strong enough to keep him still.

nsb@Mark:5:6 @ He saw Jesus from far off and quickly approached and bowed down before him.

nsb@Mark:5:7 @ Crying out with a loud voice, he said: »What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the highest God? In God’s name do not torment me!«

nsb@Mark:5:8 @ Jesus commanded: »Come out of the man you unclean spirit!«

nsb@Mark:5:9 @ Then Jesus said: »What is your name?« He answered: »My name is Legion because there are a great number of us.«

nsb@Mark:5:10 @ He earnestly implored him not to send the spirits away out of the country.

nsb@Mark:5:11 @ There was a large herd of pigs feeding on the mountainside.

nsb@Mark:5:13 @ He let them do it. Then the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the sea. About two thousand of them died in the sea.

nsb@Mark:5:14 @ Their keepers ran off to the town to tell others what happened. People came to see what had taken place.

nsb@Mark:5:15 @ When they came to Jesus they saw the man who had been demon possessed. He was fully clothed and in full use of his senses. So they were afraid.

nsb@Mark:5:16 @ Those who saw the event gave a full account of what happened to the man, the evil spirits and the pigs.

nsb@Mark:5:22 @ Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, saw Jesus and fell at his feet.

nsb@Mark:5:23 @ He pleaded with him saying: »My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her that she will be healed and live.«

nsb@Mark:5:25 @ There was a woman who had an issue of blood twelve years.

nsb@Mark:5:29 @ Immediately the flow of her blood dried up. She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

nsb@Mark:5:34 @ He said: »Daughter your faith has made you whole. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction.«

nsb@Mark:5:35 @ While he yet spoke they came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house. They said: »Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher.«

nsb@Mark:5:36 @ But Jesus did not listen. He said to the ruler of the synagogue believe and do not fear.

nsb@Mark:5:37 @ He allowed only Peter, James, and John the brother of James to follow him.

nsb@Mark:5:38 @ The house of the ruler of the synagogue was filled with commotion. Many were weeping and wailing.

nsb@Mark:5:40 @ They laughed him to scorn. He sent them all out of the house. Then he took the father, mother and his companions and went to the child.

nsb@Mark:6:3 @ »Is this the carpenter, the son of Mary, brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Are not his sisters here with us?« He offended them.

nsb@Mark:6:8 @ They were instructed to take nothing for their journey, with the exception of a walking staff.

nsb@Mark:6:11 @ »When someone will not listen to you leave that house and shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to the householder.«

nsb@Mark:6:15 @ But others said: »It is Elijah.« And others said: »It is a prophet, like one of the prophets.«

nsb@Mark:6:17 @ For Herod captured John and locked him in prison for the sake of Herodias his wife. She was his brother Philip’s wife before he married her.

nsb@Mark:6:21 @ It was Herod’s birthday. He invited his lords, the military commanders, and the prominent men of Galilee to supper.

nsb@Mark:6:22 @ When the daughter of Herodias danced for Herod and his guests, she pleased him so much he promised her anything she desired.

nsb@Mark:6:23 @ He pledged to her, »Whatever you ask of me, I will give it to you, up to half of my kingdom.«

nsb@Mark:6:24 @ She asked her mother, »What should I ask?« And the mother said: »The head of John the Baptist.«

nsb@Mark:6:25 @ At once she went to the king and asked: »Will you give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter.«

nsb@Mark:6:26 @ The king was very sorry. Even so he kept his promise to her. He did not turn her down. This also showed his dinner guests he was a man of his word.

nsb@Mark:6:33 @ The people from all the cities knew they were going and they ran together on foot to arrive ahead of them.

nsb@Mark:6:37 @ He replied: »You give them food to eat.« They asked: »Should we buy two hundred shillings’ worth of bread to feed them?«

nsb@Mark:6:40 @ They sat down in groups of hundreds, and fifties.

nsb@Mark:6:43 @ They collected twelve baskets full of broken pieces of bread and fishes.

nsb@Mark:6:45 @ Jesus made his disciples hurry into a boat to cross to Bethsaida ahead of him. Then he sent the crowd away.

nsb@Mark:6:47 @ He was on the shore at the beginning of evening and the boat was in the midst of the sea.

nsb@Mark:6:48 @ He saw that they were tired of rowing for the wind was against them. It was the fourth watch of the night. He walked on the sea and was about to pass them.

nsb@Mark:6:50 @ They all saw him and were troubled. Suddenly he spoke to them: »Be of good cheer. It is I do not fear.«

nsb@Mark:6:52 @ They had not understood the loaves of bread. Their minds were closed.

nsb@Mark:6:53 @ They completed the crossing to the land of Gennesaret and anchored by the shore.

nsb@Mark:6:56 @ When he entered a village or city in the marketplaces or the country the sick tried to touch the border of his garment and be healed.

nsb@Mark:7:1 @ The Pharisees and some of the scribes came from Jerusalem to gather around Jesus.

nsb@Mark:7:2 @ They saw that some of his disciples ate their bread with unwashed defiled hands.

nsb@Mark:7:5 @ The Pharisees and the scribes asked: »Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders. Instead they eat their bread with defiled hands?«

nsb@Mark:7:7 @ ‘They worship me in vain teaching as doctrines the commands of men.’«

nsb@Mark:7:8 @ Speaking to the Pharisees and scribes He said: »You abandon the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

nsb@Mark:7:9 @ »You totally reject the commandment of God that you may keep your tradition.

nsb@Mark:7:10 @ »Moses said: ‘Honor your father and your mother. He also said: ‘He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.’

nsb@Mark:7:13 @ »You make the word of God invalid by your tradition.«

nsb@Mark:7:15 @ »Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. That which comes from inside of a man can make him unclean.

nsb@Mark:7:20 @ »That which comes out of the man defiles the man.

nsb@Mark:7:24 @ Jesus went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He did not want anyone to know that he was staying in a house there. However it could not be kept a secret.

nsb@Mark:7:26 @ The woman was a Greek Syrophoenician by race. She wanted him to drive out the demon out of her daughter.

nsb@Mark:7:29 @ Then he replied: »Thanks to your answer you may leave for the demon has gone out of your daughter.«

nsb@Mark:7:31 @ He left the borders of Tyre through Sidon, through the region of Decapolis to the Sea of Galilee.

nsb@Mark:8:1 @ It was one of those days when there was a great crowd of people. They had nothing to eat so he called his disciples.

nsb@Mark:8:3 @ »If I send them away to their houses with no food they will be weak and faint. Some of them have a long way to go.«

nsb@Mark:8:8 @ After eating they picked up seven baskets full of food.

nsb@Mark:8:15 @ He ordered them to be aware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

nsb@Mark:8:17 @ Hearing this Jesus said: »Why do you reason about having no bread? Do you not understand? Are your hearts dull of understanding?

nsb@Mark:8:19 @ »When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand how many baskets full of broken pieces did you up bring back?« They answered: »Twelve.«

nsb@Mark:8:20 @ And the seven loaves among the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you bring back? And they told him: »Seven.«

nsb@Mark:8:23 @ He held the blind man’s hand and led him out of the village. Then he spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him. He asked him: »Do you see?«

nsb@Mark:8:27 @ Jesus and his disciples went into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples: »Who do men say I am?«

nsb@Mark:8:28 @ They told him: »John the Baptist and others say Elijah. Some say you are one of the prophets.«

nsb@Mark:8:31 @ Then he taught them that the Son of man must suffer many things. The elders, chief priests, and the scribes will reject him. He will be killed and after three days he will rise from the dead.

nsb@Mark:8:33 @ He turned around and looked at his disciples. Then he rebuked Peter saying: »Get behind me Satan for you do not pay attention to the things of God. You tend to the things of men.«

nsb@Mark:8:35 @ »Whoever would save his life will lose it. Whoever would lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

nsb@Mark:8:36 @ »What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

nsb@Mark:8:38 @ »For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man will also be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.«

nsb@Mark:9:1 @ He continued: »Truly I tell you there are some here who will in no way experience death, till they see the kingdom of God come with power.«

nsb@Mark:9:2 @ Six days later Jesus took Peter, James and John up on a high mountain completely alone. He was transfigured in front of them.

nsb@Mark:9:7 @ A cloud hovered over them and a voice came out of the cloud: »This is my Son the beloved listen to him!«

nsb@Mark:9:9 @ They came down the mountain. He warned them not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of man had risen from the dead.

nsb@Mark:9:12 @ He said: »Elijah does come first and restores all things. It is written that the Son of man should suffer and be treated with contempt?

nsb@Mark:9:17 @ One of the people answered him: »Teacher I brought my son who is unable to talk because of a spirit.

nsb@Mark:9:22 @ Often it casts him into the fire and into the water to destroy him. If you can do anything have compassion on us and help us.

nsb@Mark:9:25 @ When Jesus saw the people he ordered the unclean spirit to come out of him. He commanded the spirit that caused the loss of voice and hearing to leave and never return to him.

nsb@Mark:9:26 @ The spirit cried out and shook the child violently. It came out and the child became like a dead person. Most of them said: »He is dead.«

nsb@Mark:9:31 @ He taught his disciples: »The Son of man will be handed over to men who will put him to death. After three days he will come back from the dead.«

nsb@Mark:9:35 @ He sat down and the twelve came to him. He said: »If any man has the desire to be first, he would be last of all and servant of all.«

nsb@Mark:9:36 @ He put a little child in the middle of them and taking him in his arms he said to them:

nsb@Mark:9:39 @ But Jesus said: »Do not stop him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

nsb@Mark:9:41 @ »Whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most assuredly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

nsb@Mark:9:42 @ »Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea.

nsb@Mark:9:43 @ »If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better to enter into life maimed then, having two hands to be destroyed in the ever-burning trash fires in the Valley of Hinnom.

nsb@Mark:9:45 @ »If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is good for you to enter into life with only one foot, rather than having two feet to be cast into the ever-burning fires of Hinnom.

nsb@Mark:9:47 @ »If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is good for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be destroyed in the ever-burning trash fires in the valley of Hinnom.

nsb@Mark:9:50 @ »Salt is good. If it loses its saltiness how can you make it salty again? Have the salt or seasoning of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.«

nsb@Mark:10:1 @ Jesus crossed the Jordan River when he went to the province of Judea. Crowds gathered all around him just as they always did.

nsb@Mark:10:4 @ They said: »Moses allowed us to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.«

nsb@Mark:10:5 @ »He wrote this commandment because of your hard hearts,« Jesus replied.

nsb@Mark:10:6 @ »God made male and female from the beginning of creation.

nsb@Mark:10:14 @ But when Jesus saw it he was moved with indignation. He said: »Allow the little children to come to me! Do not turn them away for they belong to the kingdom of God.

nsb@Mark:10:15 @ »Truly I tell you, he who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child shall not enter it.«

nsb@Mark:10:20 @ »Teacher,« he said: »I have observed all of these from my youth.«

nsb@Mark:10:23 @ Looking around Jesus said to his disciples: »It is hard for those who have riches to enter into the kingdom of God!«

nsb@Mark:10:24 @ The disciples were amazed at his words. Jesus repeated it again: »Children, it is hard to enter into the kingdom of God!

nsb@Mark:10:25 @ »It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.«

nsb@Mark:10:29 @ Jesus said: »Truly I tell you, a man that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the sake of the good news,

nsb@Mark:10:33 @ »When we go to Jerusalem the Son of man will be turned over to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death and hand him over to the people of the nations.

nsb@Mark:10:35 @ James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him saying: »Teacher, we want you to do for us what we ask of you.«

nsb@Mark:10:44 @ »Whoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.

nsb@Mark:10:45 @ »For the Son of man also came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.«

nsb@Mark:10:46 @ They arrived at Jericho. He left there with his disciples and a large crowd. A blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the side of the road.

nsb@Mark:10:47 @ When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he cried: »Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me!«

nsb@Mark:10:48 @ Many rebuked him that he should keep quiet. However he cried out even more: »You son of David have mercy on me.«

nsb@Mark:10:49 @ Jesus stood still and said: »You call him.« They called the blind man saying to him, »Be of good cheer: rise, he calls you.«

nsb@Mark:11:1 @ They came close to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives. He appointed two of his disciples to

nsb@Mark:11:3 @ »If any one questions why you do this say: ‘The Lord has need of him.’ Immediately he will send it here.«

nsb@Mark:11:10 @ »Blessed is the coming kingdom, the kingdom of our father David. Hosanna in the highest!«

nsb@Mark:11:13 @ He saw a fig tree far off. When he got closer he found nothing but leaves for it was not the season of figs.

nsb@Mark:11:15 @ When in Jerusalem he entered the temple and turned over the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of the people who sold doves.

nsb@Mark:11:17 @ When he taught, he said: »Is it not written, my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers.«

nsb@Mark:11:30 @ »The baptism of John was it from heaven or from men?« Give me an answer.

nsb@Mark:12:2 @ »During the season he sent a servant to the field workers that he might receive the fruits of the vineyard.

nsb@Mark:12:6 @ »Last of all he sent his son saying: ‘They will respect my son.’

nsb@Mark:12:8 @ »They captured him and killed him. Then they cast his body out of the vineyard.

nsb@Mark:12:9 @ »What will the lord of the vineyard do? He will destroy the field workers and give the vineyard to others.

nsb@Mark:12:14 @ »Teacher,« they said, »we know that you are truthful, and not concerned about what other people think. You truthfully teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

nsb@Mark:12:23 @ »In the resurrection whose wife shall she be of them? For each of the seven had her as wife.«

nsb@Mark:12:24 @ Jesus replied: »Is it not for this cause that you err? You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.

nsb@Mark:12:26 @ »It is a fact that the dead will be raised again. Have you not read the account of the burning bush in the book of Moses? Did you notice how God spoke to him, saying: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

nsb@Mark:12:27 @ »He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly mistaken.«

nsb@Mark:12:28 @ One of the other scribes came to him with a question: »What commandment is the first of all?«

nsb@Mark:12:33 @ »To love him with all the heart, and with all understanding, and with total strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.«

nsb@Mark:12:34 @ When Jesus saw that he answered intelligently he said to him: »You are not far from the kingdom of God. No man dared ask any questions after that.«

nsb@Mark:12:35 @ Still teaching in the temple Jesus said: »Do the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

nsb@Mark:12:38 @ He said: »Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and to have greetings in the marketplaces.

nsb@Mark:12:44 @ »They all gave out of their surplus. She gave out of her poverty. She gave all that she owned, all her living.«

nsb@Mark:13:1 @ As he left the temple one of his disciples said to him: »Teacher look at these stones and the great buildings!«

nsb@Mark:13:3 @ He sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple. Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately:

nsb@Mark:13:7 @ »When you hear of wars and rumors of wars do not be troubled. These things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

nsb@Mark:13:8 @ »Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines. These things are the beginning of pain.

nsb@Mark:13:13 @ »All men will hate you because of my name. He who endures to the end will be saved.

nsb@Mark:13:19 @ »The tribulation in these days will be greater then there has ever been from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never shall be.

nsb@Mark:13:20 @ »Unless Jehovah shortened the days no flesh would be saved. For the sake of his chosen anointed he will shorten the days.

nsb@Mark:13:26 @ »They will see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

nsb@Mark:13:27 @ »He will send the angels to gather together his anointed from the four winds, from one end of the earth to the other end of heaven.

nsb@Mark:13:28 @ »Learn the illustration of the fig tree. When her branch is tender and she sprouts leaves you know summer is near.

nsb@Mark:13:32 @ »No one knows the day or hour. The angels in heaven do not know. The Son of God does not know. Only the Father knows!

nsb@Mark:13:35 @ »Watch therefore for you do not know when the lord of the house comes. It could be in the evening, at midnight or in the morning.

nsb@Mark:14:1 @ It was just two days until the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread. The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might quietly capture and kill him.

nsb@Mark:14:3 @ He was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper. While he was dining a woman with an alabaster vase filled with costly perfume, of pure nard, brake it open and poured it over his head.

nsb@Mark:14:4 @ Some were very indignant over this. They asked, »What was the purpose of this waste of ointment?

nsb@Mark:14:9 @ »Truly I tell you everywhere the good news is preached through out the whole world, that which this woman has done will be spoken of for a memorial of her.«

nsb@Mark:14:10 @ Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might betray Jesus to them.

nsb@Mark:14:12 @ Now it was the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover. His disciples said to him: »Where do you want to go to prepare to eat the Passover?«

nsb@Mark:14:13 @ He sent two of his disciples into the city. He said: »Meet a man bearing a pitcher of water and follow him.

nsb@Mark:14:14 @ »Where he leads you say to the master of the house: The Teacher says where is my guest-chamber? Where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples?

nsb@Mark:14:18 @ While they sat and ate Jesus said: »Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me, even he that eats with me.«

nsb@Mark:14:20 @ He said to them: »It is one of the twelve, he that dips with me in the dish.

nsb@Mark:14:21 @ »The Son of man goes even as it is written of him. Woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better if he had not been born.«

nsb@Mark:14:24 @ He said: »This means my blood of the covenant given for men.

nsb@Mark:14:25 @ »Truly I say to you, I will take no more of the fruit of the vine till the day when I take it new in the kingdom of God.«

nsb@Mark:14:26 @ After a song of praise to God they went to the Mount of Olives.

nsb@Mark:14:27 @ Jesus told them: »You would all be turned away from me. It is written, I will put the keeper of the sheep to death, and the sheep will be put to flight.

nsb@Mark:14:34 @ He said to them: »I am very sorrowful to the point of death. Stay here with me and watch.«

nsb@Mark:14:41 @ He came a third time and said to them: »Sleep and take your rest. It is enough the hour has come. Look, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners!

nsb@Mark:14:43 @ Suddenly, as he spoke, Judas one of the twelve arrived. A great crowd with swords and spears were with him. They were from the chief priests, scribes and elders.

nsb@Mark:14:47 @ One of those who were near took out his sword and gave the servant of the high priest a blow, cutting off his ear.

nsb@Mark:14:52 @ But they got a hold of the linen cloth and he fled naked.

nsb@Mark:14:54 @ Peter followed him at a distance. He followed into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers staying warm by the fire.

nsb@Mark:14:60 @ The high priest stood in the middle of them, and said to Jesus: »Do you not answer? What is it these say against you?«

nsb@Mark:14:61 @ But he kept quiet and said nothing. Again the high priest questioned him: »Are you the Christ, the son of the Holy One?«

nsb@Mark:14:62 @ Jesus said: »I am and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.«

nsb@Mark:14:66 @ Peter was still in the courtyard when one of the High Priest’s servant women came by.

nsb@Mark:14:67 @ When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said: »You were with Jesus of Nazareth.«

nsb@Mark:14:69 @ The servant woman saw him there and told bystanders, »He is one of them!«

nsb@Mark:14:70 @ Peter denied it again. Later the bystanders accused Peter again saying: »You cannot deny that you are one of them, because you, too, are from Galilee.«

nsb@Mark:15:1 @ Early in the morning the chief priests met hurriedly with the elders, the teachers of the Law, and the entire Council. They made their plans. They led Jesus away in chains and handed him over to Pilate.

nsb@Mark:15:2 @ Pilate questioned him: »Are you the king of the Jews?« Jesus answered: »You say so.«

nsb@Mark:15:3 @ The chief priests accused him of many things.

nsb@Mark:15:9 @ Pilate answered them, saying: »Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?«

nsb@Mark:15:10 @ For he knew that it was out of envy the chief priests delivered him up.

nsb@Mark:15:12 @ »What should I do with the one you call the King of the Jews?« Pilate asked.

nsb@Mark:15:16 @ The soldiers led him away to the court in the Praetorium building. They assembled together all of the troops.

nsb@Mark:15:17 @ They clothed him with purple. After weaving a crown of thorns they put it on him.

nsb@Mark:15:18 @ »Hail King of the Jews!« They shouted at him.

nsb@Mark:15:20 @ After they mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to impale him.

nsb@Mark:15:21 @ Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus was passing by on the road. They compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his stake.

nsb@Mark:15:22 @ They brought him to the place called Golgotha. This means the place of a skull.

nsb@Mark:15:23 @ They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he did not take it.

nsb@Mark:15:26 @ The superscription of his accusation was written on a board above his head, »THE KING OF THE JEWS.«

nsb@Mark:15:32 @ »Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down from the stake that we may see and believe him.« Those who were impaled with him also mocked him.

nsb@Mark:15:35 @ Some of those who stood by said: »He is calling Elijah.«

nsb@Mark:15:36 @ They filled a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink. Then they said let him be. Let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down.

nsb@Mark:15:37 @ Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed his last breath of life.

nsb@Mark:15:38 @ The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.

nsb@Mark:15:39 @ The centurion who stood nearby heard him cry out his last breath. Then he said: »Truly this man was the Son of God!«

nsb@Mark:15:40 @ The women watching from afar included: Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome,

nsb@Mark:15:43 @ Joseph of Arimathaea was a prominent council member who also was looking for the Kingdom of God. He boldly approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.

nsb@Mark:15:46 @ He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth. Then he laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

nsb@Mark:15:47 @ Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.

nsb@Mark:16:1 @ After Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices so they could anoint him.

nsb@Mark:16:3 @ They asked each other who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb?

nsb@Mark:16:5 @ They entered the tomb. They were amazed at what they saw. A young man dressed in a white robe was sitting on the right side of the tomb.

nsb@Mark:16:9 @ After he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene. She was the one who had the seven demons that he cast out.

nsb@Mark:16:12 @ After this two of them saw him in another form as they walked, on their way into the country.

nsb@Mark:16:14 @ Afterward he was revealed to the eleven as they sat at the table. He rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

nsb@Mark:16:19 @ After he had spoken to them the Lord Jesus, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

nsb@Luke:1:2 @ They received testimony from those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning. Ministers of God’s word delivered it to us.

nsb@Luke:1:3 @ Most excellent Theophilus: I have accurately traced the course of all things from the beginning. Now it seems good to me to write this report to you.

nsb@Luke:1:5 @ There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a priest named Zechariah. He was of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron. Her name was Elizabeth.

nsb@Luke:1:6 @ They were both righteous before God. They blamelessly obeyed all the commandments and ordinances of God.

nsb@Luke:1:9 @ The custom was to draw lots to see who served in the temple. It was his turn to enter into the temple of God and burn incense.

nsb@Luke:1:10 @ The whole crowd of people prayed outside at the hour of incense.

nsb@Luke:1:11 @ God’s angel appeared to him when he was standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

nsb@Luke:1:15 @ »He will be great in the eyes of God. He will not drink wine or strong drink and he will be full of Holy Spirit from the time of his birth.

nsb@Luke:1:16 @ »Great numbers of the children of Israel will return to Jehovah their God because of him. (1 Samuel strkjv@7:3)

nsb@Luke:1:17 @ »He will go before God in the spirit and power of Elijah. He will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness. This will make ready a people whose hearts have been directed to Jehovah.« (Malachi strkjv@3:1)

nsb@Luke:1:18 @ Zechariah asked: »How might I be certain of this for my wife and I are old?«

nsb@Luke:1:20 @ »You will be without voice or language till the day when these things happen. Your lack of faith in what I say has caused this.«

nsb@Luke:1:22 @ When he came out he could not speak to them. They realized he saw a vision in the temple. Instead of talking he made signs to them.

nsb@Luke:1:23 @ When the days of his priestly service ended he went home.

nsb@Luke:1:27 @ to a virgin named Mary. Mary was engaged to Joseph, a descendant of King David.

nsb@Luke:1:29 @ She was greatly troubled by this and wondered about the meaning of this salutation.

nsb@Luke:1:32 @ »He will be great. He will be called the Son of the Most High. Jehovah God will give him the throne of his father David. (Isaiah strkjv@11:1-10)

nsb@Luke:1:33 @ »He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will not end.«

nsb@Luke:1:35 @ The angel replied: »Holy Spirit would come to you and the power of the Most High will envelope you. Because of this the newborn will be called the Son of God.«

nsb@Luke:1:39 @ Mary traveled with haste to the city of Judah in the hill country.

nsb@Luke:1:40 @ She entered the home of Zechariah and greeted Elisabeth.

nsb@Luke:1:42 @ She shouted loudly: »Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!«

nsb@Luke:1:43 @ »How is it that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

nsb@Luke:1:48 @ »He has looked on the low position of his servant. All generations from now on will call me blessed.

nsb@Luke:1:51 @ »He shows strength with his arm. He scatters the proud in the thoughts of their heart.

nsb@Luke:1:59 @ On the eighth day they circumcised the child. They planned to call him Zechariah, after the name of the father.

nsb@Luke:1:61 @ They all said: »None of your relatives are called by this name.«

nsb@Luke:1:65 @ Everyone nearby was in fear. These accounts spread abroad throughout all the hill country of Judea.

nsb@Luke:1:66 @ All that heard them wondered in their heart, saying, »What will this child be? For the hand of Jehovah was with him.«

nsb@Luke:1:68 @ »Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel. He has visited his people and brought them redemption. (Psalm strkjv@72:18)

nsb@Luke:1:69 @ »He raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

nsb@Luke:1:70 @ »He spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from ages past.

nsb@Luke:1:71 @ »He provided salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us.

nsb@Luke:1:74 @ »He gave us deliverance out of the hand of our enemies so we could serve him without fear.

nsb@Luke:1:76 @ »Your child will be called the prophet of the Most High. You will go in advance of Jehovah God to make his ways ready. (Malachi strkjv@3:1)

nsb@Luke:1:77 @ »To give knowledge of salvation to his people in the remission of their sins.

nsb@Luke:1:78 @ »A rising of light will visit us from on high because of the tender mercy of our God.

nsb@Luke:1:79 @ »The light will shine on them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. It will guide our feet into the way of peace.«

nsb@Luke:2:1 @ In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the inhabited earth.

nsb@Luke:2:2 @ This was the first census made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

nsb@Luke:2:4 @ Joseph came from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea to be counted and taxed. He went to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

nsb@Luke:2:10 @ The angel spoke to them: »Do not be afraid. Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy to all the people.

nsb@Luke:2:11 @ »Christ the Lord, a Savior, is born this day in the city of David.

nsb@Luke:2:13 @ Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly hosts praising God, and saying:

nsb@Luke:2:22 @ Following the days of their purification according to the Law of Moses they brought him up to Jerusalem. There they would present him to Jehovah.

nsb@Luke:2:24 @ According to God’s Law they must offer a sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

nsb@Luke:2:26 @ Holy Spirit revealed to him that he would not die before he saw the Christ of Jehovah.

nsb@Luke:2:27 @ Under the power of the spirit he came to the temple. The parents brought in the child Jesus, that they obey the custom of the law.

nsb@Luke:2:32 @ »It is a light of revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.«

nsb@Luke:2:34 @ Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: »This child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel and for a sign that is spoken against.

nsb@Luke:2:35 @ »A sword will pierce through your mind that the thoughts of many hearts will be disclosed.«

nsb@Luke:2:36 @ Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher was a very old prophetess.

nsb@Luke:2:38 @ Even up to that time she gave thanks to God and spoke to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

nsb@Luke:2:39 @ When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of God they returned to Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.

nsb@Luke:2:41 @ Every year his parents went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

nsb@Luke:2:42 @ When he was twelve years old they went to the feast of the Passover, as was their custom.

nsb@Luke:2:46 @ After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers. He was listening and asking them questions.

nsb@Luke:3:1 @ It was the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea. Herod served as tetrarch of Galilee. Herod’s brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis. Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene.

nsb@Luke:3:2 @ This was in the time when Annas and Caiaphas were chief priests. The word of God was delivered to John the son of Zechariah. He was in the wilderness.

nsb@Luke:3:3 @ John traveled in the region near the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

nsb@Luke:3:4 @ This was according to the words of Isaiah the prophet: »The voice of one crying in the wilderness. Make ready the way of Jehovah. Make his paths straight.

nsb@Luke:3:6 @ »All flesh shall see the salvation of God.« (Isaiah strkjv@40:3-6)

nsb@Luke:3:7 @ He told the crowds that came to be baptized by him: »You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

nsb@Luke:3:8 @ »Produce fruit that is worthy of repentance. Do not say we have Abraham for our father. I tell you, that God is able to make these stones into children for Abraham.

nsb@Luke:3:9 @ »The axe is now at the root of the trees. Every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown in to the fire.«

nsb@Luke:3:18 @ He preached good news to the people by offering many encouraging words.

nsb@Luke:3:22 @ Holy Spirit descended upon him in a bodily form like a dove. A voice came out of heaven. He said: »You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.«

nsb@Luke:3:23 @ When Jesus began to teach he was about thirty years old. Jesus was the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,

nsb@Luke:3:24 @ the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

nsb@Luke:3:25 @ the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,

nsb@Luke:3:26 @ the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,

nsb@Luke:3:27 @ the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

nsb@Luke:3:28 @ the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,

nsb@Luke:3:29 @ the son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

nsb@Luke:3:30 @ the son of Symeon, the son of Judas, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,

nsb@Luke:3:31 @ the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

nsb@Luke:3:32 @ the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

nsb@Luke:3:33 @ the son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

nsb@Luke:3:34 @ the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

nsb@Luke:3:35 @ the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah

nsb@Luke:3:36 @ the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

nsb@Luke:3:37 @ the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

nsb@Luke:3:38 @ the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the Son of God.

nsb@Luke:4:1 @ Jesus was full of God’s Holy Spirit when he returned from the Jordan. Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness.

nsb@Luke:4:3 @ The devil said to him: »If you are the Son of God command this stone to become bread.«

nsb@Luke:4:5 @ He led him up to a high place and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

nsb@Luke:4:9 @ He led him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple. Then he said to him: »If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here.

nsb@Luke:4:17 @ He was given the book of the prophet Isaiah. He opened the book and found the place where it was written:

nsb@Luke:4:18 @ »The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.

nsb@Luke:4:19 @ »To proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah.« (Isaiah strkjv@61:1)

nsb@Luke:4:20 @ He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

nsb@Luke:4:25 @ »I tell you truth. There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah. There was no rain from heaven three years and six months. There came a great famine over all the land.

nsb@Luke:4:26 @ »Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was only sent to Zarephath in the land of Sidon. She was a widow.

nsb@Luke:4:27 @ »There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Only one of them was cleansed, Naaman the Syrian.«

nsb@Luke:4:29 @ They rose up to drive him out of the city. They led him to the top of the hill where their city was built to throw him down the hill.

nsb@Luke:4:30 @ But he passed through the midst of them and went his way.

nsb@Luke:4:31 @ Next he traveled to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. There he taught them on the Sabbath day.

nsb@Luke:4:33 @ A man in the synagogue had a spirit of an unclean demon. He cried out with a loud voice:

nsb@Luke:4:34 @ »What have we to do with you Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are the Holy One of God!«

nsb@Luke:4:35 @ Jesus rebuked him, saying: »Be quiet and come out of him.« When the demon had thrown him down in front of them, he came out of him without harming him.

nsb@Luke:4:37 @ A rumor concerning him spread to every place of the region.

nsb@Luke:4:40 @ When the sun was setting they brought many who were sick of different diseases to him. He laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.

nsb@Luke:4:41 @ Demons came out from many. They cried out: »You are the Son of God!« He rebuked them and charged them not to speak for they knew he was the Christ.

nsb@Luke:4:43 @ He said to them: »I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other cities also. This is why I was sent.«

nsb@Luke:4:44 @ He preached in the synagogues of Galilee.

nsb@Luke:5:1 @ Jesus stood by the Lake of Gennesaret as the crowds pressed in upon him in order to hear the word of God.

nsb@Luke:5:3 @ He boarded one of the boats. It was Simon’s boat. He asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

nsb@Luke:5:6 @ When they did this they caught a large number of fish and their nets were breaking.

nsb@Luke:5:9 @ He and all who were with him were amazed at the catch of fish.

nsb@Luke:5:10 @ So were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon: »Do not fear. From now on you will catch men.«

nsb@Luke:5:12 @ One time while he was in one of the cities a man full of leprosy fell on his face before Jesus. He said: »Lord, if you want to you can make me clean.«

nsb@Luke:5:14 @ He told him to tell no one and go and show himself to the priest. Then he was to make a cleansing offering, just as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

nsb@Luke:5:15 @ The news about him spread far away and large crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities.

nsb@Luke:5:17 @ One day when he was teaching, Pharisees and doctors of the Law were in the crowd. People came from every village of Galilee, Judea and Jerusalem. God’s power was with him to heal.

nsb@Luke:5:19 @ They could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd. So they went up to the housetop and let the man and the bed down through the tiles to Jesus.

nsb@Luke:5:24 @ »So you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,« he said to the man who was paralyzed, »I say to you, arise, take up your bed and go to your house.«

nsb@Luke:5:27 @ After that he met a tax collector named Levi sitting at his place of business. He told him: »Follow me.«

nsb@Luke:5:29 @ Levi made him a great feast in his house. There was a large group of tax collectors and of others that were sitting at the meal with them.

nsb@Luke:5:33 @ They said: »The disciples of John fast often and make supplications. So do the disciples of the Pharisees. But yours eat and drink.«

nsb@Luke:5:34 @ Jesus replied: »Could you make the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them?

nsb@Luke:5:36 @ He told an illustration to them: »No one takes a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. Otherwise he will tear the new. Also the new will not match the old.

nsb@Luke:6:2 @ Some of the Pharisees asked: »Why do you do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?«

nsb@Luke:6:4 @ entered into the house of God. They and the others with them ate the showbread. It is only lawful for the priest to eat it.«

nsb@Luke:6:5 @ He continued: »The Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.«

nsb@Luke:6:15 @ and Matthew and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealous one,

nsb@Luke:6:16 @ And finally there was Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

nsb@Luke:6:17 @ He came down with them, and stood on a level place. A great crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem came to hear him. Others from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases.

nsb@Luke:6:20 @ He looked at his disciples and said: »Blessed are you who are poor for yours is the kingdom of God.

nsb@Luke:6:22 @ »Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

nsb@Luke:6:26 @ »Woe to you when all men speak well of you! Their fathers did the same to the prophets.

nsb@Luke:6:29 @ »When someone slaps you on one cheek offer the other. Give your coat to the one who takes your topcoat.

nsb@Luke:6:30 @ »Give to every one who asks of you and do not demand back your goods from he who takes from you.

nsb@Luke:6:35 @ »Love your enemies and do good to them. Lend expecting nothing in return and your reward will be great. You will be sons of the Most High for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

nsb@Luke:6:44 @ »The identity of a tree is made clear by the fruit it produces. Men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble.

nsb@Luke:6:45 @ »The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good. The evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth that which is evil. Out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

nsb@Luke:6:48 @ »He is like a man building a house. He dug and laid a deep foundation upon the rock. A flood sent a stream of water against the house and could not shake it because it was well built.

nsb@Luke:6:49 @ »He who hears but does not do is like a man who built a house upon the earth without a foundation. A flood will send a stream of water and immediately it will fall. The ruin of that house will be great.«

nsb@Luke:7:2 @ A centurion’s servant, who was highly regarded by him, was sick and at the point of death.

nsb@Luke:7:6 @ Jesus went with them. As he approached the house, the centurion sent friends to him saying, »Lord do not trouble yourself. I am not worthy that you should come under my roof.

nsb@Luke:7:8 @ »I also am a man with much authority. I am in charge of soldiers and say to this one go and he goes and to another I say come and he comes. I tell my servant to do this and he does it.«

nsb@Luke:7:12 @ When he came near the gate of the city he saw people carrying a dead person. It was the only son of a widow. Many people were with her.

nsb@Luke:7:18 @ The disciples of John told him the news.

nsb@Luke:7:19 @ John sent two of his disciples to the Lord. They asked, »Should we look for another or are you the one?«

nsb@Luke:7:23 @ »Blessed is he who is not offended by me.«

nsb@Luke:7:27 @ »This is he of whom it is written, Behold I send my messenger before you. He will prepare a way before you.

nsb@Luke:7:28 @ »I say to you, of those who are born of women there is none greater than John. Yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.«

nsb@Luke:7:30 @ The Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God and were not baptized by him.

nsb@Luke:7:31 @ »To whom or what should I compare the men of this generation?

nsb@Luke:7:34 @ »The Son of man came eating and drinking, and you say look he is a gluttonous man, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!

nsb@Luke:7:36 @ One of the Pharisees asked him to dine with him. He went to the Pharisee’s house and sat down to eat.

nsb@Luke:7:38 @ Standing by his feet weeping, she wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with the hair of her head. Then she kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

nsb@Luke:7:39 @ The Pharisee saw it and thought to himself if this man were a prophet he would know what kind of woman touched him. She is a sinner.

nsb@Luke:7:42 @ »They did not have money to pay the debt so he forgave them both. Which of them did he love the most?«

nsb@Luke:7:50 @ He said to the woman: »You are saved because of your faith. Go in peace.«

nsb@Luke:8:1 @ Jesus and the twelve apostles traveled through cities and villages preaching the good news of the kingdom of God.

nsb@Luke:8:2 @ Traveling with him were the women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities. This included Mary Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out.

nsb@Luke:8:3 @ Also healed was Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna. There were many others, who supported them out of their private substance.

nsb@Luke:8:5 @ »The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed some fell by the side of the road. It was trampled under foot and the birds of heaven devoured it.

nsb@Luke:8:10 @ He said: »You are meant to know the secrets of the kingdom of God. I speak to the rest in illustrations, that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand.

nsb@Luke:8:11 @ »Now the illustration is this: The seed is the word of God.

nsb@Luke:8:12 @ »Those by the side of the road are they who have heard. Then the devil comes and takes the word from their hearts that they may not believe and be saved.

nsb@Luke:8:13 @ »Those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy. These have no root. They believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.

nsb@Luke:8:14 @ »The seeds that fell among the thorns are people who hear the word and go their own way. They are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and do not produce fruit.

nsb@Luke:8:19 @ His mother and brother tried to come to him but could not because of the crowd.

nsb@Luke:8:21 @ He answered, »My mother and my brother are these who hear the word of God, and do it.«

nsb@Luke:8:22 @ He said to his disciples: »Let us go to the other side of the lake.« Then he and his disciples boarded a boat and did so.

nsb@Luke:8:24 @ They awoke him saying: »Master, Master, we parish!« He rebuked the wind and the raging of the water and there was calm.

nsb@Luke:8:26 @ They arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is near Galilee.

nsb@Luke:8:28 @ When he saw Jesus he cried out and fell down in front of him. He shouted in a loud voice: »What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I implore you do not torment me.«

nsb@Luke:8:32 @ There was a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain. They entreated him that he would allow them to enter into them. He gave them permission.

nsb@Luke:8:35 @ They went out to see what happened. They came to Jesus and found the man who had been demon possessed. He was clothed, in his right mind and sitting at the feet of Jesus. They were afraid.

nsb@Luke:8:37 @ The people of the country of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to depart. They were very much afraid. So he boarded a boat and left.

nsb@Luke:8:41 @ Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue came to Jesus. He fell down at Jesus’ feet and implored him to come to his house.

nsb@Luke:8:43 @ There was a woman having an issue of blood twelve years. She spent all her money on physicians, and could not be healed by any.

nsb@Luke:8:44 @ She came behind him and touched the border of his garment. Immediately the issue of blood stopped.

nsb@Luke:8:47 @ When the woman knew she was discovered she trembled, fell down before him and declared in the presence of all the people why she touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

nsb@Luke:8:49 @ While he yet spoke someone came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house saying: »Your daughter is dead do not trouble the teacher.«

nsb@Luke:8:51 @ When he arrived at the house he allowed only the mother and father of the girl, Peter, John and James to enter with him.

nsb@Luke:9:2 @ He sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

nsb@Luke:9:5 @ »If someone does not receive you, when you leave the city, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against that person.«

nsb@Luke:9:7 @ Herod the ruler of Galilee heard of all that was done and was very perplexed. Some said John the Baptist was raised from the dead and that he did it.

nsb@Luke:9:8 @ Others said that Elijah had appeared and others and that one of the old prophets had risen again.

nsb@Luke:9:10 @ When the apostles returned they told Jesus about the things they had done. They traveled to the city of Bethsaida.

nsb@Luke:9:11 @ The crowds followed him and he welcomed them. He spoke to them about the kingdom of God. He healed many who were sick.

nsb@Luke:9:14 @ There were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.

nsb@Luke:9:17 @ They ate and were all filled. Twelve baskets of left over pieces remained.

nsb@Luke:9:19 @ They said: »John the Baptist. Others say Elijah and still others say one of the old prophets has risen again.«

nsb@Luke:9:20 @ »But who do you say I am?« He asked. Peter answered him: »The Christ of God.«

nsb@Luke:9:22 @ The Son of man must suffer many things, he told them. The elders, chief priests and scribes will reject him and kill him. The third day he will be raised up.

nsb@Luke:9:25 @ »For what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?

nsb@Luke:9:26 @ »If any man is ashamed of my teachings, and of me the Son of man will be ashamed of that person. This will happen when he comes in his own glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

nsb@Luke:9:27 @ »I tell you the truth, there are some here who shall not taste of death till they see the kingdom of God.«

nsb@Luke:9:35 @ A voice came out of the cloud saying: »This is my Son my chosen one. Listen to him!«

nsb@Luke:9:43 @ They were all overwhelmed by the greatness of God. Everyone marveled at all the things he did. Jesus said to his disciples:

nsb@Luke:9:44 @ »Let these words sink into your ears. The Son of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men.«

nsb@Luke:9:46 @ They reasoned among themselves which of them was the greatest.

nsb@Luke:9:47 @ When Jesus detected the reasoning of their heart, he took a little child, and set him by his side.

nsb@Luke:9:52 @ He sent messengers ahead of him. They entered the village of the Samaritans to get ready for him.

nsb@Luke:9:58 @ Jesus told him: »Foxes have holes and birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.«

nsb@Luke:9:60 @ »Let the dead bury the dead. You go and publish abroad the kingdom of God.« Jesus replied.

nsb@Luke:9:62 @ Jesus responded: »No man, who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.«

nsb@Luke:10:1 @ The Lord appointed seventy disciples and sent them in groups of two into every city and place where he was about to go.

nsb@Luke:10:2 @ He said to them: »The harvest indeed is great but the laborers are few. Pray that the Master of the harvest will send laborers into his harvest.

nsb@Luke:10:3 @ »Go your way for I send you as lambs in the midst of wolves.

nsb@Luke:10:6 @ »If a son of peace lives there, your peace shall rest upon him. If not, it shall return to you again.

nsb@Luke:10:7 @ »Remain in that house eating and drinking what they give you. The laborer is worthy of his hire. Do not stay in different houses.

nsb@Luke:10:9 @ »Heal the sick that are there and say to them, the kingdom of God is near you.

nsb@Luke:10:11 @ »Shake off the dust that clings to your feet, from that city, so they may know that the kingdom of God came near.

nsb@Luke:10:19 @ »Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any way hurt you.

nsb@Luke:10:21 @ In that same hour he rejoiced in Holy Spirit and said: »I thank you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you did hide these things from the wise and the understanding and revealed them to babes. Father, it is pleasing in your sight.

nsb@Luke:10:34 @ »He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him.

nsb@Luke:10:35 @ »The next day he paid the host two shillings. He said take care of him and if you spend more I will repay you when I return.

nsb@Luke:10:36 @ »Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?«

nsb@Luke:11:1 @ Jesus was praying. When he finished one of his disciples said to him: »Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.«

nsb@Luke:11:5 @ He also said: »Which of you have a friend you would approach at midnight and say lend me three loaves.

nsb@Luke:11:6 @ »This is because a friend of mine is visiting and I do not have any food to feed him.

nsb@Luke:11:15 @ Some of them said: »Beelzebub the prince of the demons casts out demons.«

nsb@Luke:11:18 @ »If Satan is divided against himself how will his kingdom stand? You say I cast out demons with the help of Beelzebub.

nsb@Luke:11:20 @ »If I use the finger (Exodus strkjv@31:18) (2 Corinthians strkjv@3:3) of God to cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you?

nsb@Luke:11:26 @ »He then takes seven other spirits more evil than himself and they enter in and dwell. The last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.«

nsb@Luke:11:27 @ As he was talking a woman out of the crowd shouted: »Blessed is the woman who bore you and nursed you.«

nsb@Luke:11:28 @ He replied: »More blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.«

nsb@Luke:11:29 @ When the crowd gathered to him, he said: »This generation is evil. It seeks a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.

nsb@Luke:11:30 @ »Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites; the Son of man will be a sign to this generation.

nsb@Luke:11:31 @ »The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation. She will condemn them for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the Wisdom of Solomon and one greater than Solomon is here now.

nsb@Luke:11:32 @ »The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation. They will condemn it for they repented at the preaching of Jonah and someone greater than Jonah is here now.

nsb@Luke:11:34 @ »The lamp of your body is your eye. When your eye is clear your entire body is full of light. When it is evil your body is full of darkness.

nsb@Luke:11:36 @ If your entire body is full of light and has no darkness you will have no part of the dark. Just as a lamp when shinning brightly gives plenty of light.«

nsb@Luke:11:39 @ The Lord said: »You Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter. Yet your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

nsb@Luke:11:42 @ »Woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God. You should have done these but you leave them undone.

nsb@Luke:11:45 @ One of the lawyers said to him: »Teacher, you also insult us by saying this.«

nsb@Luke:11:46 @ Jesus said: »Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to bear. And you will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

nsb@Luke:11:47 @ »Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

nsb@Luke:11:48 @ »Therefore you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers. They killed them and you build their tombs.

nsb@Luke:11:49 @ »It is for this reason the wisdom of God said, ‘I send to them prophets and apostles and they will persecute and kill some of them.’

nsb@Luke:11:50 @ »The blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation.

nsb@Luke:11:51 @ »This includes the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. I tell you it will be required of this generation.

nsb@Luke:11:52 @ »Woe to you lawyers, for you took away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves and you hindered those entering.«

nsb@Luke:12:1 @ Thousands of people in the crowd were gathered together so much that they bumped into one another. He said to his disciples: »First of all, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

nsb@Luke:12:4 @ »I tell you my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body. After that they can do no more.

nsb@Luke:12:6 @ »Are not five sparrows sold for two coins of small value? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

nsb@Luke:12:7 @ »Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear. You are worth more than many sparrows.

nsb@Luke:12:8 @ »I tell you, every one who confesses me before men; the Son of man will also confess him before the angels of God.

nsb@Luke:12:9 @ »He who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.

nsb@Luke:12:10 @ »He who speaks against the Son of man will be forgiven. However he who blasphemes against Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

nsb@Luke:12:13 @ A member of the crowd said: »Teacher, help my brother divide the inheritance with me.«

nsb@Luke:12:16 @ He spoke an illustration to them: »The land of a rich man produced well.

nsb@Luke:12:25 @ »Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to your life?

nsb@Luke:12:27 @ »Consider the way the lilies grow. They do not toil and neither do they spin. Yet I tell you even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

nsb@Luke:12:30 @ »For the people of the nations seek after these things. Your Father knows that you need them.

nsb@Luke:12:39 @ »Know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming he would have watched. He would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

nsb@Luke:12:40 @ »You be ready! The Son of man will come at a time when you do not think he will.«

nsb@Luke:12:44 @ »I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all that he has.

nsb@Luke:12:46 @ the master of that servant will come when he does not expect. He will come in an hour that he does not know. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

nsb@Luke:12:56 @ »You hypocrites, you know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven but how is it that you do not know how to interpret this time?

nsb@Luke:12:58 @ »For example when an opponent brings you to court, try to settle before you get there. Otherwise, he will drag you in front of a judge and the judge will hand you over to an officer who will throw you into prison.

nsb@Luke:12:59 @ »I tell you that you will not get out until you pay every penny of your fine.«

nsb@Luke:13:1 @ Some people there gave him an account of how Pilate killed some Galilaeans while they offered sacrifices.

nsb@Luke:13:14 @ The official of the synagogue was angry that Jesus healed on the Sabbath. He told the people: »There are six days in which we should work. Come during those days and be healed, not on the Sabbath!«

nsb@Luke:13:16 @ »Here is a descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept in bonds for eighteen years. Should she be released on the Sabbath?«

nsb@Luke:13:18 @ Jesus continued: »To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? What is it like?«

nsb@Luke:13:20 @ Again Jesus asked: »With what should I compare the Kingdom of God?

nsb@Luke:13:21 @ « It is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour. Soon the whole batch of dough rises.«

nsb@Luke:13:25 @ »The master of the house will close the door. You stand outside and knock on the door and say: ‘Open the door for us, sir!’ He will answer: ‘I do not know where you come from!’

nsb@Luke:13:28 @ »You will cry and grind your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out!

nsb@Luke:13:29 @ »People will come from east, west, north and south and sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God.

nsb@Luke:13:33 @ « I must go on my way today, tomorrow and the following day. It would not be right that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.

nsb@Luke:13:34 @ »O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets! You stone those sent to you. How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her own brood under her wings. But you would not have it!

nsb@Luke:13:35 @ »Behold, your house is made desolate. I tell you, you shall not see me until you say blessed is he who comes in the name of Jehovah.« (Psalm strkjv@118:26)

nsb@Luke:14:1 @ Shortly after that he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees. They were there to eat on the Sabbath. They watched him.

nsb@Luke:14:5 @ He said: »Which of you who has an ass or a bull that falls into a well, and will not immediately pull him up on a Sabbath day?«

nsb@Luke:14:8 @ »When you are invited to a marriage feast do not take the place of honor. Someone more distinguished than you may be invited.

nsb@Luke:14:9 @ »Your host would tell you, give this person your place. Then you would be embarrassed and have to take the place of least honor.

nsb@Luke:14:10 @ »When you are invited, take the place of least honor. Then, when your host comes, he will tell you, friend, move to a more honorable place. And the other guests will see how you are honored.

nsb@Luke:14:15 @ One of the guests at the table then said to Jesus: »Those who sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God will be happy!«

nsb@Luke:14:19 @ »Another said: ‘I purchased five pairs of oxen and am on my way to try them out. Please accept my apologies.’

nsb@Luke:14:21 @ »The servant returned and conveyed this to his master. The master was furious. He commanded his servant to hurry into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.

nsb@Luke:14:24 @ »None of those who were invited will taste my dinner!« He said.

nsb@Luke:14:25 @ Jesus turned to speak to the large crowd of people who were traveling with him:

nsb@Luke:14:29 @ »If you do not, you will not be able to finish the project after laying the foundation. Everyone who sees what happened will ridicule and poke fun of you.

nsb@Luke:14:32 @ »If he is not strong enough he will send messengers to the other king to ask for terms of peace while he is still far away.«

nsb@Luke:14:33 @ »Likewise,« concluded Jesus, »none of you may be my disciples unless you give up everything you have.«

nsb@Luke:15:1 @ One day a large number of tax collectors and other outcasts came to listen to Jesus.

nsb@Luke:15:2 @ Pharisees and teachers of the Law complained: »This man welcomes sinners and even eats with them!«

nsb@Luke:15:4 @ »If you have a hundred sheep and lose one of them, what do you do? You leave the other ninety-nine sheep in the pasture and go looking for the one you lost until you find it.

nsb@Luke:15:8 @ »Suppose a woman with ten silver coins loses one of them. What does she do? She lights a lamp and sweeps her house. She looks carefully everywhere until she finds it.

nsb@Luke:15:10 @ »I tell you, it is the same for the angels of God who rejoice over one sinner who repents.«

nsb@Luke:15:12 @ »The younger one said to him, Father I want my share of the property. He divided his property between his two sons.

nsb@Luke:15:13 @ »In a short time the younger son sold his share of the property. He left home with the money and traveled to a far away country where he wasted his money in reckless living.

nsb@Luke:15:15 @ »He went to work for a citizen of that country who sent him to his farm to take care of the pigs.

nsb@Luke:15:19 @ »I am not fit to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired workers.’

nsb@Luke:15:26 @ « He asked one of the servants what was happening?

nsb@Luke:15:30 @ »This son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes. When he comes home you kill the prize calf for him!

nsb@Luke:16:1 @ Jesus told his disciples: »There was a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man learned that the manager was accused of wasting his master’s money.

nsb@Luke:16:2 @ »He said: ‘Is it true what I hear about you? Give me a complete accounting of your management of my property for you may not be my manager any longer.’

nsb@Luke:16:6 @ »‘One hundred barrels of olive oil,’ he said. ‘Here is your bill,’ he told him; ‘settle for fifty.’

nsb@Luke:16:7 @ »He asked another: ‘How much do you owe?’ ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he answered. ‘Here is your bill. Pay eight hundred bushels.’

nsb@Luke:16:8 @ »The master of the dishonest manager praised him for doing a shrewd thing. People of this world are more astute at handling their affairs than people who belong to the light.

nsb@Luke:16:14 @ Hearing this the Pharisees made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

nsb@Luke:16:15 @ Jesus said: »You make yourselves look righteous to other people. God knows your hearts. The things considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God’s sight.

nsb@Luke:16:16 @ »The Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets was in effect until John the Baptist. From that time on the Good News about the Kingdom of God is being taught.

nsb@Luke:16:17 @ « It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest detail of the Law to be eliminated.

nsb@Luke:16:21 @ »He hoped he could eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man’s table. Then the dogs would come and lick his sores.

nsb@Luke:16:24 @ »He called out: Father Abraham! Take pity on me! Please send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool off my tongue. I am in torment in this fire!

nsb@Luke:16:28 @ »Have him go warn my five brothers that they will not come to this place of torment.

nsb@Luke:17:2 @ »It would be better for him to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

nsb@Luke:17:15 @ When he was healed, one of them came back and praised God in a loud voice.

nsb@Luke:17:20 @ The Pharisees asked: »When does the kingdom of God come?« Jesus answered them: »The kingdom of God does not come with observable signs.

nsb@Luke:17:21 @ »Neither shall they say it is here or over there! The kingdom of God is here with you.«

nsb@Luke:17:22 @ He said to the disciples: »The time will come when you shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you shall not see it.

nsb@Luke:17:24 @ »Just as the light from lightning shines from one part of the sky to another part of the sky, so the Son of man will be in his day.

nsb@Luke:17:26 @ »The days of the Son of man will be like the days of Noah.

nsb@Luke:17:28 @ »The days of Lot were similar. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted and they built.

nsb@Luke:17:30 @ »It will be similar in the day that the Son of man is revealed.

nsb@Luke:18:8 @ »I say to you, that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, will the Son of man find faith on the earth when he comes?»

nsb@Luke:18:11 @ »The Pharisee stood and prayed like this: God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

nsb@Luke:18:12 @ »I fast twice per week. I give tithes of all that I get.

nsb@Luke:18:16 @ Jesus said: »Invite the little children to come to me, and do not forbid them for the kingdom of God belongs to them.

nsb@Luke:18:17 @ »Truly I tell you he who does not receive the kingdom of God like little child, shall in no wise enter it.«

nsb@Luke:18:24 @ Seeing him Jesus said: »It is very difficult for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

nsb@Luke:18:25 @ »It is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.«

nsb@Luke:18:29 @ Jesus said: »Truly I tell you, no man has left house, or wife, or brother, or parents, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

nsb@Luke:18:31 @ He took the twelve to Jerusalem so that the Son of man will accomplish all the things that are written through the prophets:

nsb@Luke:18:32 @ »He will be delivered up to the people of the nations, and will be mocked, and shamefully treated, and spit upon.

nsb@Luke:18:37 @ They told him: »Jesus of Nazareth passed by.«

nsb@Luke:18:38 @ He cried out: »Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!«

nsb@Luke:18:39 @ They rebuked him and said he should keep quiet. But he cried out even more: »You son of David, have mercy on me!«

nsb@Luke:19:8 @ Zacchaeus stood before Jesus and said: »Lord, I now give half of all my possessions to the poor. If I have defrauded any one I will give back four times the amount taken.«

nsb@Luke:19:9 @ Jesus said to him: »Salvation has come to this house today. He is also a son of Abraham.

nsb@Luke:19:10 @ »The Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.«

nsb@Luke:19:11 @ They were close to Jerusalem. They assumed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. Jesus responded to their assumption with an illustration.

nsb@Luke:19:13 @ »He called ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds, and said do business with this until I return.

nsb@Luke:19:22 @ »He said to him: Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow.

nsb@Luke:19:27 @ »Bring my enemies that do not want me to rule over them and kill them in front of me.«

nsb@Luke:19:29 @ When he came close to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples.

nsb@Luke:19:37 @ He was near the descent of the Mount of Olives. The entire crowd of disciples rejoiced and praised God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen.

nsb@Luke:19:38 @ They said: »Blessed is the King that comes in the name of Jehovah! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!« (Psalms strkjv@118:26; strkjv@134:3)

nsb@Luke:19:39 @ Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, »Teacher, rebuke your disciples.«

nsb@Luke:19:46 @ He said: »It is written my house shall be a house of prayer. You have made it a den of robbers.«

nsb@Luke:19:47 @ Everyday he taught in the temple. The chief priests, scribes and other important men of the people looked for ways to destroy him.

nsb@Luke:20:4 @ »The baptism of John was it from heaven or from men?«

nsb@Luke:20:10 @ »At harvest time he sent a servant to the renters to collect fruit of the vineyard. The renters beat him, and sent him away empty.

nsb@Luke:20:13 @ »The owner of the vineyard said, what should I do? I will send my beloved son. Maybe they will respect him.

nsb@Luke:20:15 @ »They threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

nsb@Luke:20:17 @ »He looked at them and asked what does the scripture mean: The stone that the builders rejected the same was made the head of the corner?

nsb@Luke:20:20 @ They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous. The spies listened for something in his speech to deliver him up to the authority of the governor.

nsb@Luke:20:21 @ »Teacher,« they said, »we know that you are right in what you say and teach. You are not partial and do not play favorites. Rather you teach the way of God truthfully.«

nsb@Luke:20:26 @ They were not able to apprehend him in front of the people. They were amazed by his answer and kept quiet.

nsb@Luke:20:31 @ »The third married her. The remaining of the seven also married her, left no children and died.

nsb@Luke:20:34 @ Jesus said, »The sons of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

nsb@Luke:20:36 @ »They cannot die anymore for they are equal to the angels. They are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

nsb@Luke:20:37 @ »Even Moses showed that the dead are raised when he was near the bush and he called Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (Exodus strkjv@3:6-14)

nsb@Luke:20:38 @ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live for him.«

nsb@Luke:20:39 @ Some of the scribes answered, »Teacher you have said well.«

nsb@Luke:20:42 @ »For David said in the book of Psalms: Jehovah said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand.

nsb@Luke:20:46 @ »Beware of the scribes for they walk around in long robes. They love greetings in the marketplaces. They sit in the chief seats in the synagogues and the head tables at feasts.

nsb@Luke:20:47 @ »They devour widows’ houses. They offer long prayers to show off in front of others. They shall receive great condemnation.«

nsb@Luke:21:3 @ »I tell you a truth,« he said: »This poor widow gave more than all of them.

nsb@Luke:21:4 @ »They all gave out of their surplus but she gave out of her poverty. She gave all that she had for living expenses.«

nsb@Luke:21:5 @ Some spoke of how wonderful the temple was. How it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus replied:

nsb@Luke:21:9 @ »When you hear of wars and disturbances do not be terrified. These things must occur first. The end is not immediate.«

nsb@Luke:21:15 @ »I will give you ability to talk and words of wisdom, which your adversaries shall not be able to resist or refute.

nsb@Luke:21:17 @ »Men will hate you because of my name.

nsb@Luke:21:18 @ »Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

nsb@Luke:21:19 @ »You will gain your lives because of your endurance.

nsb@Luke:21:21 @ »Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her leave. And let no one from the country enter.

nsb@Luke:21:22 @ »These are days of vengeance! All things written will be fulfilled.

nsb@Luke:21:24 @ »They will be killed by the edge of the sword. Some will be led captive into all the nations. The people of the nations will tread down Jerusalem until the time of the Nations is fulfilled.

nsb@Luke:21:25 @ »There will be signs in sun and moon and stars. The earth will experience distress of nations in disarray for the roaring of the sea and the waves.

nsb@Luke:21:26 @ »Men will faint out of fear for expectation of the things coming on the world. The powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

nsb@Luke:21:27 @ »Then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

nsb@Luke:21:31 @ »Even so, when you see these things coming to pass, know that the kingdom of God is near!

nsb@Luke:21:34 @ »Be awake so your hearts are not weighed down. Do not allow the weight of worldly involvement, drunkenness, and cares of this life be a snare when that day suddenly comes.

nsb@Luke:21:35 @ »It will come as a surprise to all who dwell on the face of the earth.

nsb@Luke:21:36 @ »Be on the watch all the time. Pray for the strength to escape all these things in order to stand before the Son of man.«

nsb@Luke:21:37 @ He taught in the temple every day and he stayed on the Mount of Olives at night.

nsb@Luke:22:1 @ The feast of unleavened bread was near. This is called the Passover.

nsb@Luke:22:3 @ Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot. He was one of the twelve.

nsb@Luke:22:6 @ He consented and looked for a way to deliver him to them in the absence of the crowd.

nsb@Luke:22:7 @ The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

nsb@Luke:22:10 @ He said: »When you enter the city a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house.

nsb@Luke:22:11 @ »Say to the master of the house: The teacher says; ‘where is the guest chamber where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples?’

nsb@Luke:22:16 @ »I tell you I will not eat it again until it takes place in the kingdom of God.«

nsb@Luke:22:18 @ »I say to you, I shall not drink from the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God comes.«

nsb@Luke:22:19 @ He gave thanks. Then he took the bread, broke it and gave it to them, saying: »This represents my body that is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.«

nsb@Luke:22:22 @ »The Son of man indeed goes, as it has been determined. But woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!«

nsb@Luke:22:23 @ They questioned among themselves, which of them would do this thing.

nsb@Luke:22:24 @ Contention grew between them concerning which of them was the greatest.

nsb@Luke:22:25 @ He told them: »The kings of the nations have lordship over them. Those who have authority over them are called Benefactors.

nsb@Luke:22:27 @ »Which is greater, he who sits and eats or he who serves? Is it he who sits and eats? However I am in the midst of you as he who serves.

nsb@Luke:22:30 @ »Just as you eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

nsb@Luke:22:39 @ He went to the Mount of Olives as was his custom and the disciples also followed him.

nsb@Luke:22:44 @ He was in agony and earnestly prayed. His sweat became, as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

nsb@Luke:22:45 @ When he finished his prayer he went to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of their sorrow.

nsb@Luke:22:47 @ As he spoke a crowd followed Judas, one of the twelve. They came to him. Judas approached Jesus and kissed him.

nsb@Luke:22:48 @ Jesus said to him: »Judas, do you betray the Son of man with a kiss?«

nsb@Luke:22:50 @ One of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

nsb@Luke:22:51 @ Jesus said: »Do not do any more of this.« Then he touched his ear and healed him.

nsb@Luke:22:52 @ Jesus spoke to the chief priests, captains of the temple and elders who came against him: »Did you come as you would against a robber with swords and clubs?

nsb@Luke:22:53 @ »I was with you every day in the temple. Yet you did not lift a hand against me. This is your hour for this power of darkness.«

nsb@Luke:22:55 @ They kindled a fire in the midst of the court. They sat down together. Peter sat in the midst of them.

nsb@Luke:22:56 @ A servant girl saw him sitting by the light of the fire. She looked steadfastly upon him and said: »This man was also with him.«

nsb@Luke:22:58 @ After a little while another saw him, and said: »You are one of them.« Peter replied: »Man I am not!«

nsb@Luke:22:61 @ The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him: »Before the cockcrow this day you will deny me three times.«

nsb@Luke:22:66 @ The next day the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together. They included chief priests and scribes. They led him away to their council, saying:

nsb@Luke:22:69 @ »Soon the Son of man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.«

nsb@Luke:22:70 @ They all asked: »Are you the Son of God?« He said to them: »You say that I am.«

nsb@Luke:23:1 @ The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

nsb@Luke:23:2 @ They accused him, saying: »We found this man perverting our nation. He forbids payment of tax to Caesar. He claims to be Christ a king.«

nsb@Luke:23:3 @ Pilate asked him: »Are you King of the Jews?« He answered him: »You say it.«

nsb@Luke:23:9 @ He offered many questions but received no answers.

nsb@Luke:23:14 @ He said: »You brought this man to me as one who perverted the people. I examined him before you and find no fault in this man. He has not done the things you accuse him of.

nsb@Luke:23:15 @ »Herod found no fault and sent him back to us. He has done nothing worthy of death.

nsb@Luke:23:26 @ They led him away. Simon of Cyrene was traveling from the country. They seized him and forced him to carry the stake for Jesus.

nsb@Luke:23:27 @ A great crowd of people followed. Many women cried and grieved over him.

nsb@Luke:23:28 @ Jesus turned to them and said: »Daughters of Jerusalem do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children.

nsb@Luke:23:35 @ The people stood watching while the rulers scoffed at him, saying: »He saved others let him save himself if this is his chosen, the Christ of God.«

nsb@Luke:23:36 @ The soldiers mocked him and offered him vinegar,

nsb@Luke:23:37 @ saying: »If you are the King of the Jews save yourself.«

nsb@Luke:23:38 @ There was a superscription over him, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

nsb@Luke:23:39 @ One of the criminals who were hanged complained bitterly to him saying: »Are you the Christ? Save yourself and us.«

nsb@Luke:23:41 @ »We are indeed justly condemned for we receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man has done nothing wrong.«

nsb@Luke:23:45 @ The sun failed to shine. The veil of the temple was torn in two.

nsb@Luke:23:49 @ All of his friends and the women who followed him from Galilee stood watching from a distance.

nsb@Luke:23:50 @ Joseph was a member of the council and a good and righteous man.

nsb@Luke:23:51 @ He was from Arimathaea a city of the Jews and was looking for the kingdom of God.

nsb@Luke:23:52 @ He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

nsb@Luke:23:54 @ It was the day of the Preparation and the Sabbath was near.

nsb@Luke:24:1 @ It was early in the morning on the first day of the week. They went to the tomb with the spices that they had prepared.

nsb@Luke:24:3 @ When they entered they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

nsb@Luke:24:7 @ »He said the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be impaled, and the third day rise again.«

nsb@Luke:24:10 @ They were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them. They told these things to the apostles.

nsb@Luke:24:13 @ That day two of them traveled to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

nsb@Luke:24:22 @ »Some of the women of our company stunned us. They went to the tomb early.

nsb@Luke:24:23 @ »They did not find his body. They said that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

nsb@Luke:24:25 @ He said to them: »You are foolish men. You are slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

nsb@Luke:24:31 @ Their eyes were opened and they knew him. Then he vanished out of their sight.

nsb@Luke:24:42 @ They gave him a piece of a broiled fish.

nsb@Luke:24:43 @ He took it and ate it in front of them.

nsb@Luke:24:44 @ He said: »These are my words that I spoke to you, while I was yet with you. All things must be fulfilled. They are things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, concerning me.«

nsb@Luke:24:47 @ »Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

nsb@Luke:24:48 @ »You are witnesses of these things.

nsb@Luke:24:49 @ »You see I send the promise of my Father upon you. You are to wait in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.«

nsb@John:1:8 @ Not being the light he came to give a witness of it.

nsb@John:1:12 @ He gave the right to become children of God to all who received him. Even to those who believe in his name.

nsb@John:1:13 @ They were born from God. It was not from blood, or the will of the flesh, or the will of man.

nsb@John:1:14 @ The Word became flesh and lived with us. We saw the glory of the only begotten son from the Father. He was full of loving-kindness and truth.

nsb@John:1:16 @ Out of the fullness of his undeserved kindness he gives us one blessing after another.

nsb@John:1:23 @ He said: »I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Isaiah the prophet said: ‘Make straight the way of Jehovah.’« (Isaiah strkjv@40:3)

nsb@John:1:29 @ The next day he saw Jesus coming to him. He boldly declared: »Behold! The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!«

nsb@John:1:32 @ John said: »I saw the spirit descending as a dove out of heaven upon him.

nsb@John:1:34 @ »I have seen, and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.«

nsb@John:1:35 @ The next day John was standing with two of his disciples.

nsb@John:1:36 @ He looked at Jesus as he walked, and said: »Behold, the Lamb of God!«

nsb@John:1:40 @ One of the two, who heard John speak and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.

nsb@John:1:42 @ He took him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said: »You are Simon the son of John: you will be called Cephas.«

nsb@John:1:44 @ Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

nsb@John:1:45 @ Philip found Nathanael, and said to him: »We have found the person Moses and the prophets wrote about in the Law and God’s word. It is Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.«

nsb@John:1:46 @ And Nathanael said to him: »Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?« Philip said: »Come and see.«

nsb@John:1:49 @ Nathanael answered: »Rabbi you are the Son of God. You are King of Israel.«

nsb@John:1:51 @ Jesus continued: »You will see the heavens opened and you will see the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.«

nsb@John:2:1 @ There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee on the third day. The mother of Jesus was there.

nsb@John:2:3 @ They ran out of wine. So the mother of Jesus said to him: »They have no wine.«

nsb@John:2:6 @ Six stone water jars were placed there to honor purification rules of the Jews. Each contained more than twenty gallons.

nsb@John:2:8 @ »Draw some out,« he said, »and take it to the master of the feast.« So they drew some out.

nsb@John:2:9 @ The master of the feast did not know about the water turned into wine. He tasted it and called the bridegroom.

nsb@John:2:11 @ This was the first miracle Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. It gave evidence of his glory and his disciples believed in him.

nsb@John:2:13 @ The Passover of the Jews was at hand and Jesus went to Jerusalem.

nsb@John:2:15 @ He made a whip of cords, and chased them all out of the temple, including the sheep and the oxen. He poured out the coins of the moneychangers and overturned the tables.

nsb@John:2:16 @ He told those who sold doves: »Take these things away. Do not make my Father’s house a house of merchandise.«

nsb@John:2:21 @ But he spoke of the temple of his body.

nsb@John:3:1 @ Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

nsb@John:3:3 @ Jesus answered: »Truly I tell you unless a person is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.«

nsb@John:3:5 @ Jesus responded: »I tell you truth, except a man be born of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God!

nsb@John:3:8 @ »The wind blows where it will. You hear the sound of it. Yet you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. It is like this with every one who is born from the Spirit.«

nsb@John:3:10 @ Jesus answered: »Are you a teacher of Israel and you do not understand these things?

nsb@John:3:13 @ »No one has ever ascended into heaven but the Son of man who descended from heaven.

nsb@John:3:14 @ »As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must also be lifted up.

nsb@John:3:18 @ »He who has an active faith in him is not judged. He who does not have an active faith has been judged already for he has not had faith in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

nsb@John:3:22 @ After these things Jesus and his disciples traveled to the land of Judea where he stayed with them and baptized.

nsb@John:3:25 @ There was a controversy between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purification.

nsb@John:3:29 @ »He that has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens to him. He rejoices greatly because he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This fills me with joy.

nsb@John:3:31 @ »He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks from an earthly viewpoint. He who comes from heaven is superior.

nsb@John:3:34 @ »For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God. God does not give the spirit by measure.

nsb@John:3:36 @ »He who puts active faith in the Son has everlasting life. He who disobeys* the Son will not see life for the wrath of God remains upon him.«

nsb@John:4:5 @ He arrived at a city of Samaria called Sychar. It is near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

nsb@John:4:7 @ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her: »Please give me a drink.«

nsb@John:4:9 @ The woman of Samaria asked: »How is it that you being a Jew ask for a drink from me? I am a woman of Samaria.«

nsb@John:4:10 @ Jesus answered: »If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water.«

nsb@John:4:14 @ »But whoever drinks from the water that I give him will never thirst. The water that I will give him will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.«

nsb@John:4:34 @ Jesus said: »My food is to do the will of him that sent me. To finish his work!

nsb@John:4:39 @ Many Samaritans of that city put faith in him because of what the woman said: »He told me everything I have ever done.«

nsb@John:4:41 @ Many more believed because of the words he spoke.

nsb@John:4:42 @ They told the woman: »We believe because of what you said and we heard him ourselves. We know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world!«

nsb@John:4:46 @ Jesus returned to Cana of Galilee where he turned the water into wine. There was a nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

nsb@John:4:54 @ This is the second miracle that Jesus did when he came out of Judea into Galilee.

nsb@John:5:3 @ In these lay a great crowd of sick people, of blind and lame waiting for the water to bubble up.

nsb@John:5:20 @ »The Father loves the Son. He shows him all of the things he does. He will show him greater works than these. And you will marvel.

nsb@John:5:24 @ »Truly, Truly I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him that sent me, has everlasting life. He will not receive judgment for he has passed out of death into life.

nsb@John:5:25 @ »Truly I tell you, the hour is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.

nsb@John:5:27 @ »And he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.

nsb@John:5:29 @ »They will return. Those who did good will have the resurrection of life. Those who did evil will receive the resurrection of judgment.

nsb@John:5:30 @ »I can do nothing by myself. So I hear and judge and my judgment is righteous. I do not seek my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

nsb@John:5:36 @ »The testimony I have is greater than that of John. The works I do are the works the Father gave me to accomplish. They testify that the Father has sent me.

nsb@John:5:42 @ »I know that the love of God is not in you.

nsb@John:6:1 @ After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

nsb@John:6:4 @ It was time for the Passover feast of the Jews.

nsb@John:6:7 @ Philip answered: »Two hundred shillings’ worth of bread is not sufficient for everyone to take a little.«

nsb@John:6:8 @ Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, one of his disciples said:

nsb@John:6:13 @ They gathered twelve baskets of leftovers after everyone had eaten.

nsb@John:6:22 @ The next day the crowd stood by the side of the sea. Jesus entered the only boat while his disciples went away alone.

nsb@John:6:25 @ They found him on the other side of the sea and said: »Rabbi when did you come here?«

nsb@John:6:26 @ Jesus said: »Truly I tell you, you seek me not because you saw miracles but because you ate of the loaves and were full.

nsb@John:6:27 @ »Do not work for food that perishes but for food that offers everlasting life. The Son of man will give you this food. The Father, even God, has set his seal upon him.«

nsb@John:6:28 @ They asked: »What must we do, that we may work the works of God?«

nsb@John:6:29 @ Jesus answered: »This is the work of God, that you have an active faith in the one whom he has sent.«

nsb@John:6:30 @ They asked: »What do you offer for a sign that we may see and believe you? What work will you do?

nsb@John:6:31 @ »Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness. It is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’«

nsb@John:6:32 @ Jesus responded: »I speak the truth! It was not Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven. My Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

nsb@John:6:33 @ »For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven. It gives life to the world.«

nsb@John:6:35 @ Jesus replied: »I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger. The one who puts active faith in me will never thirst.

nsb@John:6:38 @ »I do not do my own will. I came down from heaven to do the will of him that sent me.

nsb@John:6:39 @ »This is the will of him that sent me that I should not lose any of those he has given me, but I should raise them up at the last day.

nsb@John:6:40 @ »For this is the will of my Father. Every one who sees the Son and puts active faith in him will have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.«

nsb@John:6:41 @ The Jews complained about him. This is because he said ‘I am the bread that came down out of heaven.’

nsb@John:6:42 @ They said: »Is Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How does he now say, I came down out of heaven?«

nsb@John:6:48 @ »I am the bread of life.

nsb@John:6:50 @ »This is the bread that comes down out of heaven that a man may eat of it and not die.

nsb@John:6:51 @ »I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any man eats of this bread he will live forever. Yes and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.«

nsb@John:6:53 @ Jesus responded to them: »Truly I tell you if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood you will not have life in yourselves.

nsb@John:6:57 @ »The living Father sent me and I live because of the Father. He who takes me for his food will live because of me.

nsb@John:6:58 @ »This is the bread that came down out of heaven. It is not like the bread the fathers ate and then died. He who eats this bread will live forever.«

nsb@John:6:60 @ When they heard this many of his disciples said: »This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?«

nsb@John:6:62 @ »What if you see the Son of man ascending where he was before?

nsb@John:6:63 @ »It is the spirit that gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I spoke to you are spirit and life.

nsb@John:6:64 @ »There are some of you who do not believe.« Jesus knew from the beginning whom they were who did not believe and who would betray him.

nsb@John:6:66 @ After this many of his disciples returned to their old ways. They did not walk with him anymore.

nsb@John:6:68 @ Simon Peter answered him: »Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of everlasting life!

nsb@John:6:69 @ »We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.«

nsb@John:6:70 @ Jesus replied: »Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil «.

nsb@John:6:71 @ He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot one of the twelve, for he would betray him.

nsb@John:7:2 @ It was time for the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles.

nsb@John:7:13 @ However no man spoke openly about him out of fear of the Jews.

nsb@John:7:19 @ »Did Moses give you the law? / Yet none of you obey the law! Why do you seek to kill me?«

nsb@John:7:21 @ Jesus responded: »I did one work and you all marveled because of it.

nsb@John:7:22 @ »Moses gave you circumcision. Not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers. And you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

nsb@John:7:23 @ »A man receives circumcision on the Sabbath. That way the Law of Moses may not be broken. Are you angry with me, because I made an entire man whole on the Sabbath?

nsb@John:7:32 @ The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things concerning him. The chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to capture him.

nsb@John:7:37 @ On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and shouted in a loud voice: »If any man thirst let him come to me and drink.

nsb@John:7:38 @ »Rivers of living water will flow from the innermost being of the man who believes in me. This is according to the scriptures.«

nsb@John:7:40 @ When they heard these words some of the crowd proclaimed: »This truly is the prophet!

nsb@John:7:41 @ Others said: »This is the Christ.« But some asked: »Does the Christ come out of Galilee?

nsb@John:7:42 @ »Do the Scriptures say that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?«

nsb@John:7:43 @ So there arose a division in the crowd because of him.

nsb@John:7:44 @ Some of them wanted to apprehend him. Yet no man laid hands on him.

nsb@John:7:45 @ The chief priests and Pharisees asked the officers: »Why did you not bring him?«

nsb@John:7:48 @ »Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in him?

nsb@John:7:52 @ They replied: »Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.«

nsb@John:8:12 @ Again Jesus spoke to them, saying: »I am the light of the world. He that follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.«

nsb@John:8:17 @ »It is written in your law that the witness of two men is true.

nsb@John:8:28 @ Jesus said: »When you have lifted up the Son of man you will know that I am that person. I do nothing by myself! I speak what the Father taught me!

nsb@John:8:34 @ Jesus answered: »Truly I tell you every one who commits sin is a slave of sin.

nsb@John:8:39 @ They answered: »Our father is Abraham.« Jesus replied: »If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

nsb@John:8:41 @ »You do the works of your father.« They said: »We were not born of fornication. We have one Father, God!«

nsb@John:8:44 @ »You are from your father the Devil! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!

nsb@John:8:46 @ »Which of you convicted me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe me?

nsb@John:8:47 @ »He that is of God hears the words of God. That is why you do not listen. You are not from God!«

nsb@John:8:52 @ The Jews said to him: »Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham and the prophets died. And you say if a man obeys my word he will never taste of death.

nsb@John:9:3 @ Jesus answered: »This man did not sin. Neither did his parents sin. The works of God should be made known in him.

nsb@John:9:4 @ »We must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. When the night comes no man can work.

nsb@John:9:5 @ »When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.«

nsb@John:9:6 @ He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle. Then he anointed the eyes of the blind with the clay.

nsb@John:9:7 @ He told him: »Go wash in the pool of Siloam.« He went there and washed. And he could see!

nsb@John:9:16 @ Some of the Pharisees said: »This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath.« Others said: »How could a man that is a sinner perform such signs?« There was division among them.

nsb@John:9:21 @ »We do not know how he now sees or who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and he will speak for himself.«

nsb@John:9:22 @ The parents said these things because they feared the Jews. The Jews had agreed that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

nsb@John:9:23 @ So the parents said: »Ask him, he is of age.«

nsb@John:9:28 @ Then they spoke abusively to him: »You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses.«

nsb@John:9:32 @ »Since the world began no one ever heard of a man opening the eyes of someone born blind.

nsb@John:9:35 @ Jesus heard that they threw him out. He found him and said: »Do you believe in the Son of God?«

nsb@John:9:40 @ Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him: »Are we also blind?«

nsb@John:10:2 @ »He who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

nsb@John:10:4 @ »When all of his own are out he leads them. The sheep follow him for they know his voice.

nsb@John:10:5 @ »They will not follow a stranger but will flee from him. They do not know the voice of a stranger.«

nsb@John:10:7 @ Jesus explained: »I am the door of the sheep.

nsb@John:10:8 @ »Thieves and robbers came in place of me but the sheep did not listen to them.

nsb@John:10:16 @ »I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I will also bring them. They will hear my voice and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

nsb@John:10:19 @ The Jews were again divided because of what Jesus said.

nsb@John:10:20 @ Many of them said: »He has a demon and is mad. Why listen to him?«

nsb@John:10:21 @ Others said: »These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?«

nsb@John:10:22 @ It was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem.

nsb@John:10:25 @ Jesus replied: »I told you and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness of me.

nsb@John:10:28 @ »I give them eternal life. They will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

nsb@John:10:29 @ »My Father has given them to me. He is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

nsb@John:10:32 @ Jesus replied to them: »I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?«

nsb@John:10:35 @ »So if he called them ‘god-like ones,’ those to whom the word of God came, and the Scriptures may not be annulled,

nsb@John:10:36 @ »do you say to the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, you blaspheme? And this because I said, I am the Son of God. (Psalm strkjv@82:1, 6) (John strkjv@1:34; John strkjv@5:18) (Luke strkjv@1:35)

nsb@John:10:37 @ »If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me.

nsb@John:11:4 @ When Jesus heard it he said: »This sickness will not end in death. It is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.«

nsb@John:11:9 @ Jesus answered: »Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world.

nsb@John:11:11 @ Then he told them: »Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. I go to wake him out of sleep.«

nsb@John:11:13 @ Jesus spoke of his death. They thought he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

nsb@John:11:19 @ Many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to console them about their brother.

nsb@John:11:22 @ »Even now I know that what ever you ask of God he will give it to you.«

nsb@John:11:27 @ She said: »Yes Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who is to come into the world.«

nsb@John:11:37 @ Some of them said: »This man opened the eyes of the blind. Could he have prevented this man from dying?«

nsb@John:11:39 @ Jesus said: »Take away the stone.« Martha, the sister of the dead man said: »Lord by now the body has decayed for he has been dead four days.«

nsb@John:11:40 @ Jesus said to her: »Did I not say that if you believe you shall see the glory of God?«

nsb@John:11:42 @ »I knew that you always hear me. But because of the crowd that stands here I said it, that they may believe that you did send me.«

nsb@John:11:45 @ Many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what he did, believed in him.

nsb@John:11:46 @ Some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done.

nsb@John:11:52 @ He would die for the nation. He would also gather together the children of God that are scattered abroad.

nsb@John:11:54 @ Jesus did not walk openly among the Jews anymore. He departed into the wilderness of the nearby country. He and his disciples stayed at a city called Ephraim.

nsb@John:11:55 @ It was the Jewish Passover. Many went out of the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.

nsb@John:12:3 @ Mary took a pound of very precious ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

nsb@John:12:7 @ Jesus therefore replied: »Let her alone that she may preserve it for the day of my burial.

nsb@John:12:9 @ The common people of the Jews learned that he was there. So they came to see Jesus and Lazarus, whom he raised from the dead.

nsb@John:12:11 @ This is because by reason of Lazarus many of the Jews believed in Jesus.

nsb@John:12:13 @ They took palm branches and met him. They cried out, »Hosanna: Blessed is he who comes in the name of Jehovah, even the King of Israel!« (Psalm strkjv@118:26)

nsb@John:12:15 @ »Do not fear daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes sitting on a donkey’s colt.« (Zechariah strkjv@9:9)

nsb@John:12:17 @ The crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, gave witness.

nsb@John:12:21 @ They approached Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and told him: »We wish to see Jesus.«

nsb@John:12:23 @ Jesus answered: »The time has come for the Son of man to be glorified.

nsb@John:12:24 @ »Truly I tell you unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies it bears much fruit.

nsb@John:12:27 @ »I am troubled! What should I say? Father, save me out of this hour? It is for this purpose that I came to this hour! (Hebrews strkjv@5:7)

nsb@John:12:31 @ »Now judgment is on this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

nsb@John:12:33 @ He said this indicating the type of death he would experience.

nsb@John:12:34 @ The crowd answered him: »We have heard from the law that the Christ lives forever. Why do you say the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?«

nsb@John:12:36 @ »While you have the light, exert active faith in the light, that you may become sons of light.« Jesus said this and then he departed and hid himself from them.

nsb@John:12:37 @ Even though he performed many miracles in front of them they did not believe in him.

nsb@John:12:38 @ The word of Isaiah the prophet was fulfilled: »Jehovah who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed?« (Isaiah strkjv@53:1)

nsb@John:12:42 @ Many of the rulers believed in him, although they did not confess their faith because of the Pharisees, for they would be expelled from the synagogue.

nsb@John:13:1 @ Jesus knew before the feast of the Passover that the time had come for him to leave this world and return to his Father. He loved his own who were in the world to the very end.

nsb@John:13:2 @ The devil influenced the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son. So he betrayed him during the meal.

nsb@John:13:18 @ »I do not speak about all of you. I know whom I have chosen! This way the scripture may be fulfilled: ‘He that eats my bread lifted up his heel against me.’«

nsb@John:13:21 @ After Jesus said this he was troubled in spirit and said: One of you will betray me.«

nsb@John:13:26 @ Jesus answered: »It is he to whom I give a piece of bread after I dip it.« So when he dipped the bread he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

nsb@John:13:27 @ After he was given the piece of bread Satan entered him. Jesus said to him: »Do what you do quickly.«

nsb@John:13:29 @ Some thought Judas was going to shop for food for the feast or give something to the poor. Judas was in charge of the moneybox.

nsb@John:13:30 @ He received the morsel of bread and left immediately. It was night.

nsb@John:13:31 @ When he was gone Jesus said: »Now the Son of man is glorified and God is glorified through him.

nsb@John:14:11 @ »Believe me that I am with the Father and the Father is with me, or else believe me because of the works.

nsb@John:14:13 @ »Whatever you ask in my name, I will do. That way the Father may be glorified because of the Son.

nsb@John:14:17 @ »It is the Spirit of the truth. The world cannot receive it. The world does not see or know it. You know it because it lives with you and will be with you.

nsb@John:14:27 @ »Peace I leave with you! My peace I give to you. I do not give as the world gives to you. Do not let your heart be troubled or full of fear.

nsb@John:14:30 @ »I will speak no more with you. The prince of the world comes. He has no hold on me!

nsb@John:15:3 @ »You are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

nsb@John:15:19 @ »If you were of the world, the world would love its own. I chose you out of the world. The world hates you because you are not of the world.

nsb@John:15:26 @ »I will send the helper from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father to bear witness of me.

nsb@John:16:2 @ »They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, the hour comes that whoever kills you will think that he offered service to God.

nsb@John:16:5 @ »I go to him that sent me. None of you asks me: Where are you going?

nsb@John:16:8 @ »Upon arrival this one will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.

nsb@John:16:9 @ »First of sin because they do not practice active faith in me.

nsb@John:16:10 @ »Second, of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will not see me anymore.

nsb@John:16:11 @ »And third, of judgment because the prince of this world has been judged.

nsb@John:16:13 @ »When the Spirit of truth comes it will guide you to all truth for it will not speak from itself. It will speak the things it hears and declare to you the things that are to come.

nsb@John:16:14 @ »It will glorify me and will take of what I have and declare it to you.

nsb@John:16:17 @ Some of his disciples said to one another: »What is this he says, a little while, and you see me no more and again a little while and you will see me because I go to the Father?

nsb@John:16:21 @ »A woman in tribulation has sorrow, because her hour to give birth has come. When she delivers the child, she remembers no more anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world.

nsb@John:16:23 @ »You will ask me for nothing then. Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name.

nsb@John:16:30 @ »We are sure you know all things and have no need that any man ask you questions. Because of this we believe you came from God.«

nsb@John:16:33 @ »I spoke to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you have tribulation. Be of good cheer for I have conquered the world!«

nsb@John:17:3 @ »This is everlasting life that they should have *deep, intimate knowledge of you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have commissioned. *

nsb@John:17:6 @ »I taught your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours and you gave them to me. They have lived by your word.

nsb@John:17:12 @ »While I was with them I kept them in your name, which you have given to me. I guarded them, and not one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

nsb@John:17:14 @ »I gave them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

nsb@John:17:15 @ »I do not pray that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

nsb@John:17:16 @ »They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

nsb@John:17:24 @ »Father, I desire that these whom you gave me may be with me where I am. I want them to see the glory you have given me. For you loved me before the creation of the world.

nsb@John:18:3 @ Judas brought a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and Pharisees there with lights and with weapons.

nsb@John:18:5 @ They answered him: »Jesus of Nazareth.« Jesus replied: »I am he.« Judas the betrayer was with them.

nsb@John:18:7 @ Again he asked: »Whom do you seek?« And they said: »Jesus of Nazareth.«

nsb@John:18:9 @ That way the word he spoke might be fulfilled; ‘I lost none of those you gave me.’

nsb@John:18:10 @ Simon Peter drew the sword he had, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.

nsb@John:18:12 @ The soldiers, the military commanders, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him.

nsb@John:18:15 @ Simon Peter followed Jesus and so did another disciple. The high priest knew that disciple. He entered the court of the high priest with Jesus.

nsb@John:18:17 @ The maid that kept the door asked Peter: »Are you also one of this man’s disciples?« He said: »I am not.«

nsb@John:18:18 @ It was cold. So the servants and officers warmed themselves by the fire. Peter also stood by the fire to get warm.

nsb@John:18:22 @ When he said this one of the officers standing nearby struck Jesus with his hand, saying: »You answer the high priest!«

nsb@John:18:23 @ Jesus answered him: »If I spoke evil, bear witness of the evil. But if I spoke honestly, why do you strike me?«

nsb@John:18:25 @ Simon Peter stood nearby warming himself. They asked him: »Are you also one of his disciples?« He denied it saying: »I am not.«

nsb@John:18:26 @ One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter cut off, said: »Did I see you in the garden with him?«

nsb@John:18:32 @ Thus the word of Jesus would be fulfilled when he spoke about the kind of death he would experience.

nsb@John:18:33 @ Pilate entered again into the Praetorium. He called Jesus and asked him: »Are you the King of the Jews?«

nsb@John:18:36 @ Jesus answered: »My kingdom is not of this world! If my kingdom were of this world my servants would fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews. My kingdom is not from this domain.«

nsb@John:18:37 @ Pilate said: »Are you a king then?« Jesus answered: »As you say I am a king. I was born and came into the world for this purpose, that I should bear witness to the truth! Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.«

nsb@John:18:39 @ »You have a custom that I release someone to you at the Passover. Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?«

nsb@John:19:2 @ The soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They dressed him in a purple garment.

nsb@John:19:3 @ They came to him, and said: »Hail, King of the Jews!« They struck him with their hands.

nsb@John:19:5 @ Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said: »Look, the man!«

nsb@John:19:6 @ When the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out: »Impale him! Impale him!« Pilate replied: »Take him yourselves, and impale him for he has committed no crime!«

nsb@John:19:7 @ The Jews answered him: »We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.«

nsb@John:19:12 @ As a result of this Pilate sought to release him. The Jews cried out: »If you release this man you are not Caesar’s friend. Every one that makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.«

nsb@John:19:14 @ Now it was the Preparation of the Passover, about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews: »Behold, your King!«

nsb@John:19:17 @ They took Jesus bearing his own stake to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.

nsb@John:19:19 @ Pilate wrote a title and put it on the stake. There it was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

nsb@John:19:20 @ This title was read by many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was impaled was near the city. It was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.

nsb@John:19:21 @ The chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: »Do not write, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.«

nsb@John:19:25 @ His mother stood by the stake of Jesus, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

nsb@John:19:29 @ A vessel full of vinegar was setting there. They put a sponge full of vinegar upon a hyssop branch and brought it to his mouth.

nsb@John:19:31 @ It was Preparation and the Jews insisted that bodies not remain on the stake on the Sabbath. The day of that Sabbath was a high day. They asked Pilate that the legs be broken and that they might be taken away.

nsb@John:19:32 @ The soldiers broke the legs of the two who were impaled with him.

nsb@John:19:36 @ These things came to pass in order that the scripture might be fulfilled: A bone of him shall not be broken.

nsb@John:19:38 @ Joseph of Arimathaea was a disciple of Jesus. He approached Pilate secretly for fear of the Jews. He asked Pilate for permission to take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission. So he took the body away.

nsb@John:19:39 @ Nicodemus also came with a mixture of myrrh and about a hundred pounds of aloes. Nicodemus is the one who came to Jesus at night.

nsb@John:19:40 @ They prepared the body of Jesus for burial. They bound it in linen cloths with spices. This was the custom of the Jews.

nsb@John:20:1 @ Mary Magdalene arrived at the tomb early on the first day of the week while it was still dark. She saw the stone was taken away from the tomb.

nsb@John:20:2 @ She ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and said to them: »They have taken the Lord away out of the tomb. We do not know where they laid him.«

nsb@John:20:12 @ She saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

nsb@John:20:19 @ It was evening of the first day of the week. The disciples shut the doors where they stayed for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them: »May you have Peace.«

nsb@John:20:24 @ Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

nsb@John:20:25 @ The other disciples therefore said to him: »We have seen the Lord.« He said: »Unless I feel the print of the nails in his hands and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.«

nsb@John:20:30 @ Jesus did many miracles in the presence of the disciples. They are not written in this book.

nsb@John:20:31 @ These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. By believing you may have life in his name.

nsb@John:21:1 @ Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He presented himself this way.

nsb@John:21:2 @ There were together Simon Peter; Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.

nsb@John:21:6 @ He said: »Cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will find fish.« They cast it and they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.

nsb@John:21:8 @ The other disciples came in the little boat, dragging the net full of fishes.

nsb@John:21:9 @ When they got to land, they saw a fire of coals and fish laid on it, and bread.

nsb@John:21:11 @ Simon Peter went to draw the net to land. It was full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty three in all. There were so many and yet the net was not torn.

nsb@John:21:12 @ Jesus said to them: »Come and eat.« And none of the disciples dared to inquire, who are you? They just knew it was the Lord.

nsb@John:21:15 @ When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: »Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?« He said: »Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you.« Jesus said to him: »Feed my lambs.«

nsb@John:21:16 @ He spoke to him a second time: »Simon, son of John, do you love me?« He replied: »Yes Lord, you know I have affection for you.« Then Jesus said: »Shepherd my sheep.«

nsb@John:21:17 @ The third time Jesus said to him: »Simon, son of John, do you have affection for me?« Peter was grieved. Because he said to him the third time, do you have affection for me? Peter replied: »Lord, you know all things; you know I have affection for you!« Jesus said to him: »Feed my sheep.«

nsb@John:21:19 @ Now this he spoke, signifying by what manner of death he should glorify God. After he spoke he said: »Follow me.«

nsb@John:21:24 @ This is the disciple that bears witness of these things, and wrote these things. That way we know that his witness is true.

nsb@John:21:25 @ There are many other things that Jesus did. Should all of them be written I suppose the world would not contain the books written.

nsb@Acts:1:3 @ He presented himself alive to them after his suffering. He gave many convincing proofs. He appeared to them during forty days speaking about the kingdom of God.

nsb@Acts:1:4 @ When they were gathered together he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem. They were to wait for the promise of the Father that he spoke about.

nsb@Acts:1:8 @ »You will receive power, when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.«

nsb@Acts:1:9 @ When he said these things, while they watched, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

nsb@Acts:1:11 @ They said: »You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven will come in a similar manner as you saw him go into heaven.«

nsb@Acts:1:13 @ When they entered the city they went to the upper chamber where they were staying. Included were Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealous one, and Judas the son of James.

nsb@Acts:1:14 @ They all continued united in earnest prayer. The women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers were also there.

nsb@Acts:1:16 @ »Brothers, the Scripture needed to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who guided those who arrested Jesus.

nsb@Acts:1:18 @ »This man obtained a field with the reward of his wickedness; and falling headlong, he burst open and all his intestines spilled out.

nsb@Acts:1:19 @ »It became known to all who live in Jerusalem that the field was called the field of blood, in their language; Akeldama.

nsb@Acts:1:20 @ »It is written in the book of Psalms: ‘Let his habitation be made desolate and let no man dwell there. Let another take his office.’ (Psalm strkjv@109:8)

nsb@Acts:1:21 @ »Someone must join us as a witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. He must be one of the men who were in our group during the time that the Lord Jesus traveled about with us. This should be from the time John preached his message of baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us to heaven.

nsb@Acts:1:22 @ »One who was with us from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us must become a witness with us of his resurrection.«

nsb@Acts:1:24 @ They prayed: »You O Jehovah, know the hearts of all men. Show us which of these men you choose.

nsb@Acts:1:25 @ »Which of these men should assume this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.«

nsb@Acts:2:1 @ When the day of Pentecost came, they were all with one accord in one place.

nsb@Acts:2:3 @ Tongues of fire that sat on each of them appeared.

nsb@Acts:2:10 @ »Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,

nsb@Acts:2:11 @ »Cretes and Arabians, we hear them speak in our language the wonderful works of God.«

nsb@Acts:2:13 @ Others mockingly said: »These men are full of new wine.«

nsb@Acts:2:14 @ But Peter, stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them: »You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem let me explain this to you. Listen to my words.

nsb@Acts:2:19 @ »I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.

nsb@Acts:2:20 @ »The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable Day of Jehovah arrives. (Joel strkjv@2:31)

nsb@Acts:2:21 @ »It will come to pass, that whoever will call on the name of Jehovah will be saved. (Joel strkjv@2:32)

nsb@Acts:2:22 @ »You men of Israel hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God came among you with miracles and wonders and signs. God did these by him in your midst, as you also know:

nsb@Acts:2:23 @ »You took this man and delivered him by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God. With wicked hands you impaled and murdered him.

nsb@Acts:2:24 @ »God resurrected him, loosing the pains of death. This is because it was not possible that he should be held fast by it.

nsb@Acts:2:28 @ ‘»You have made known to me the ways of life, and you will fill me with joy with your presence.’

nsb@Acts:2:30 @ »Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.

nsb@Acts:2:31 @ »He seeing this before spoke about the resurrection of Christ. That he would not be left in the grave and his flesh did not see corruption.

nsb@Acts:2:33 @ « He is exalted to the right hand of God. He has received the promised Holy Spirit from the Father. So he poured out what you now see and hear.

nsb@Acts:2:36 @ »Therefore let all the house of Israel know for sure that God has made that same Jesus, whom you impaled, both Lord and Christ.« (Acts strkjv@10:36)

nsb@Acts:2:37 @ Now when they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: »Men and brothers, what shall we do?«

nsb@Acts:2:38 @ Then Peter said: »Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

nsb@Acts:2:39 @ »The promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as Jehovah our God calls.« (Micah strkjv@4:5) (Deuteronomy strkjv@6:4)

nsb@Acts:2:42 @ They continued devoting themselves to doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

nsb@Acts:2:43 @ Every person experienced a sense of awe, for the apostles did many wonders and signs.

nsb@Acts:2:46 @ They continued daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house. They ate their food with gladness and singleness of heart.

nsb@Acts:3:1 @ Peter and John went up to the temple at the hour of prayer. It was the ninth hour.

nsb@Acts:3:2 @ A man who had been crippled from birth was carried to the gate of the temple called Beautiful. There he begged for handouts from those who entered the temple.

nsb@Acts:3:6 @ Then Peter said: »We have no money but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.«

nsb@Acts:3:10 @ They knew he was the one who begged at the Beautiful gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement because of what happened to him.

nsb@Acts:3:12 @ When Peter saw this he spoke to the people: »You men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you look at us as though our own power or holiness made this man walk?

nsb@Acts:3:13 @ »The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus. You handed him over to Pilate. When he was determined to let him go you denied him.

nsb@Acts:3:15 @ »You killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead. We witnessed this!

nsb@Acts:3:16 @ »This man you see and know was made strong by his faith in the name of Jesus. His faith has given him total healing in your presence.

nsb@Acts:3:18 @ »The things God fulfilled he announced beforehand by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer.

nsb@Acts:3:19 @ »Repent therefore, and turn around, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy strkjv@18:18, 19)

nsb@Acts:3:21 @ whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things. God spoke about this through all his holy prophets since the world began.

nsb@Acts:3:25 @ »You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made with our fathers. He said to Abraham: ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed in your seed.’

nsb@Acts:3:26 @ »God raised up his servant and sent him to you first. He sent him to bless you and to turn every one of you from your wicked ways.«

nsb@Acts:4:1 @ As they spoke to the people, the chief priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came to them.

nsb@Acts:4:6 @ Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.

nsb@Acts:4:8 @ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said: »You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

nsb@Acts:4:10 @ »Let it be known to you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you impaled and whom God raised from the dead, even by him this man stands before you healed.

nsb@Acts:4:13 @ They observed the confidence of Peter and John. Yet they thought they were uneducated and ordinary men. They were amazed and recognized them as having been with Jesus.

nsb@Acts:4:18 @ They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

nsb@Acts:4:19 @ Peter and John answered: »You judge whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God.

nsb@Acts:4:21 @ When they further threatened them, they let them go. They found no basis for punishment because of the people for all men glorified God for that which was done.

nsb@Acts:4:22 @ The man who received the miracle of healing was about forty years old.

nsb@Acts:4:25 @ »You spoke by the mouth of your servant David: Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? (Psalm strkjv@2:1)

nsb@Acts:4:26 @ »The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against Jehovah, and against his Christ. (Psalm strkjv@2:2)

nsb@Acts:4:27 @ Truly both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the people of the nations and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you have anointed.

nsb@Acts:4:30 @ »You extend your hand to heal and signs and wonders appear in the name of your holy servant Jesus.«

nsb@Acts:4:31 @ When they prayed, the place where they assembled together was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

nsb@Acts:4:32 @ The congregation that believed was of one heart and mind. No one claimed his or her own possessions for everything was common property.

nsb@Acts:4:33 @ The apostles witnessed about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power. Grace was upon them all.

nsb@Acts:4:36 @ Joses, who was surnamed Barnabas by the apostles, was a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus.

nsb@Acts:5:2 @ They kept back part of the money. His wife was also knowledgeable of the transaction. They brought part of the funds to the apostles.

nsb@Acts:5:3 @ Peter said: »Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the money from the land sale?

nsb@Acts:5:13 @ None of the rest dared to associate with them, but the people held them in high esteem.

nsb@Acts:5:14 @ More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.

nsb@Acts:5:16 @ Crowds came from the cities near Jerusalem. They brought sick people and people with unclean spirits and everyone of them was healed.

nsb@Acts:5:17 @ Then the high priest rose up, and all those of the sect of the Sadducees who were with him were filled with zeal.

nsb@Acts:5:21 @ When they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him. He called the council together and all the senate of the children of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought.

nsb@Acts:5:22 @ The officers did not find them in the prison when they came. So they returned and said,

nsb@Acts:5:24 @ When the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted them. They wondered what this would come to.

nsb@Acts:5:26 @ Then the captain with the officers brought them in without violence. They feared the people lest they should have been stoned.

nsb@Acts:5:30 @ »The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed. You hanged him on a stake.

nsb@Acts:5:31 @ »God exalted him to his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

nsb@Acts:5:32 @ »We are witnesses of these things. The Holy Spirit, which God gave to those who obey him, also witnessed.«

nsb@Acts:5:34 @ One of the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had a reputation among all the people. He commanded to put the apostles outside for a while.

nsb@Acts:5:35 @ He said to them: »You men of Israel be careful what you intend to do to these men.

nsb@Acts:5:37 @ »After this man Judas of Galilee rose in the days of the taxing, and drew away many people after him. He also perished and all who obeyed him dispersed.

nsb@Acts:5:40 @ They agreed with him and called the apostles. They beat them and commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus. Then they let them go.

nsb@Acts:6:1 @ The number of disciples increased at that time. A murmuring arose on the part of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.

nsb@Acts:6:2 @ The twelve called the congregation of the disciples to them. They said: »It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God and serve tables.

nsb@Acts:6:3 @ »Therefore brothers select seven men who have a good reputation. Men who are full of spirit and wisdom that we may appoint to take care of this business.

nsb@Acts:6:4 @ »We will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word.«

nsb@Acts:6:5 @ The idea pleased the whole congregation. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch,

nsb@Acts:6:7 @ The word of God increased. The number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. Even a great number of priests became obedient to the faith.

nsb@Acts:6:8 @ Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.

nsb@Acts:6:9 @ Certain men arose from the synagogue. It was called the synagogue of the Libertines, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians. Some of them were from Cilicia and Asia. They argued with Stephen.

nsb@Acts:6:14 @ »We heard him say: ‘This Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.’«

nsb@Acts:6:15 @ All who sat in the council looked intently at him and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

nsb@Acts:7:2 @ He said: »Men, brothers and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.

nsb@Acts:7:3 @ »He said to him: ‘Get out of your country and away from your relatives. Go to the land that I will show you.

nsb@Acts:7:4 @ »He went out of the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. After his father died, God moved him to this land, where you now dwell.

nsb@Acts:7:8 @ »He gave him the covenant of circumcision. Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became father to Jacob and Jacob fathered the twelve family heads.

nsb@Acts:7:9 @ »The family heads were jealous of Joseph and sold him as a slave into Egypt. However, God was with him.

nsb@Acts:7:10 @ »And God delivered him out of all his afflictions. He gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Pharaoh made him governor over Egypt and his entire house.

nsb@Acts:7:11 @ »A famine and great suffering came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan. Our fathers found no food.

nsb@Acts:7:16 @ »Their bodies were brought to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem.

nsb@Acts:7:17 @ »When the time of God’s promise to Abraham drew near, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt.

nsb@Acts:7:22 @ »Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

nsb@Acts:7:23 @ »When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers the children of Israel.

nsb@Acts:7:24 @ »Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged the oppressed one by killing the Egyptian.

nsb@Acts:7:29 @ »When he heard this talk Moses fled and became a stranger in the land of Median, where he became father to two sons.

nsb@Acts:7:30 @ »At the end of forty years, Jehovah’s angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai in a flame of fire in a bush. (Exodus strkjv@3:3)

nsb@Acts:7:31 @ When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. He drew near to look at it and the voice of Jehovah came to him.

nsb@Acts:7:32 @ »He said: I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and did not dare to look further.

nsb@Acts:7:34 @ »I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come to deliver them. Come, I will send you into Egypt.

nsb@Acts:7:35 @ »This Moses whom they refused, saying: Who made you ruler and judge? God sent him to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

nsb@Acts:7:36 @ »He brought them out. He showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

nsb@Acts:7:37 @ »This is the Moses that said to the children of Israel, your God will raise up a prophet like me from your brothers.

nsb@Acts:7:40 @ »They said to Aaron: Make us gods to go in front of us. We do not know what happened to this Moses, who led us out of Egypt.

nsb@Acts:7:41 @ »They made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

nsb@Acts:7:42 @ »God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven. It is written in the book of the prophets: O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

nsb@Acts:7:43 @ »Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan. You made figures to worship them. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

nsb@Acts:7:44 @ »Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

nsb@Acts:7:45 @ »Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Joshua into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, until the days of David;

nsb@Acts:7:46 @ »Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

nsb@Acts:7:49 @ »Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool. What house will you build me? Said Jehovah God. What is the place of my rest? (Isaiah strkjv@66:1)

nsb@Acts:7:52 @ »Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They killed those who announced in advance the coming of the righteous one whom you have betrayed and murdered.

nsb@Acts:7:53 @ »You have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not obeyed it.«

nsb@Acts:7:55 @ Being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

nsb@Acts:7:56 @ He said, »Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.«

nsb@Acts:7:58 @ They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet. His name was Saul.

nsb@Acts:8:1 @ Saul agreed to his death. There was at that time a great persecution against the congregation at Jerusalem. All but the apostles were scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.

nsb@Acts:8:3 @ Saul ravaged the congregation. He entered every house and dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

nsb@Acts:8:5 @ Then Philip went to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ to them.

nsb@Acts:8:7 @ Unclean spirits, crying with loud voices, came out of many who were possessed by them. Many who were taken with palsies and the lame were healed.

nsb@Acts:8:9 @ A certain man called Simon was in the same city. He used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, telling everyone that he was great.

nsb@Acts:8:12 @ When they believed what Philip preached about the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

nsb@Acts:8:14 @ When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

nsb@Acts:8:16 @ They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus but had not yet received the Spirit.

nsb@Acts:8:18 @ When Simon saw the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money.

nsb@Acts:8:20 @ Peter said to him: »Your money will perish with you, because you think that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

nsb@Acts:8:21 @ »You have no part or share in this matter for your heart is not right in the sight of God.

nsb@Acts:8:22 @ »Repent of this wickedness, and pray to God, that the thought in your heart may be forgiven you.

nsb@Acts:8:23 @ »For I perceive that you are full of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.«

nsb@Acts:8:24 @ Simon answered: »Pray to God for me, that none of these things that you have spoken will happen to me.«

nsb@Acts:8:25 @ When they had testified and preached the word of Jehovah they returned to Jerusalem, and preached the good news in many villages of the Samaritans.

nsb@Acts:8:27 @ He went and an Ethiopian eunuch, a man of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem to worship.

nsb@Acts:8:34 @ The eunuch asked Philip: »Please tell me of whom is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?«

nsb@Acts:8:36 @ On their way, they came to a body of water and the eunuch said, »See, here is water. What prevents me from getting baptized?«

nsb@Acts:8:37 @ Philip said: »If you believe with all your heart, you may.« He answered: »I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.«

nsb@Acts:8:39 @ After they came out of the water God’s Spirit took Philip away. The eunuch did not see him again. He continued his journey rejoicing.

nsb@Acts:9:1 @ Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest.

nsb@Acts:9:11 @ The Lord said to him, »Arise, and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus for he is praying.

nsb@Acts:9:15 @ The Lord said to him: »Be on your way. This man is a chosen vessel to bear my name to the people of the nations, and kings and the children of Israel.

nsb@Acts:9:20 @ He preached in the synagogues immediately. He preached Christ the Son of God.

nsb@Acts:9:26 @ When Saul came to Jerusalem he attempted to join the disciples. They were afraid of him and did not believe he was a disciple.

nsb@Acts:9:27 @ Barnabas led him to the apostles. He declared to them how he had seen the Lord in The Way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

nsb@Acts:9:28 @ He was with them coming in and going out of Jerusalem.

nsb@Acts:9:29 @ He spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He had a dispute with the Greek speaking Jews and they made attempts to kill him.

nsb@Acts:9:33 @ He found a man named Aeneas who lay in his bed for eight years. He was sick of the palsy.

nsb@Acts:9:35 @ All who lived at Lydda on the Plain of Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

nsb@Acts:9:36 @ A disciple named Tabitha was at Joppa. Her name, when translated means Dorcas. This woman did many good works and gave gifts of mercy.

nsb@Acts:10:1 @ There was a man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian Band.

nsb@Acts:10:2 @ He was a devout man who respected God with his entire household. He gave many gifts of mercy to the people and prayed to God always.

nsb@Acts:10:3 @ About the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw a vision. An angel of God came to him and said, »Cornelius.«

nsb@Acts:10:4 @ He looked at him and was afraid. »What is it, Lord?« He replied. The angel said: »God hears your prayers and sees your gifts of mercy.

nsb@Acts:10:7 @ When the angel who spoke to Cornelius left, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier who was his attendant.

nsb@Acts:10:12 @ In it were all kinds of animals, reptiles and birds.

nsb@Acts:10:22 @ They said: »We come from Cornelius the centurion, a righteous man who respects God. He has a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews. A holy angel told him to have you come to his house so he could hear what you have to say.«

nsb@Acts:10:28 @ He said to them: »You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to keep company, or approach someone of another nation. But God revealed to me that I should not call any man defiled or unclean.

nsb@Acts:10:31 @ »He said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard and your gifts of mercy are noticed in the sight of God.

nsb@Acts:10:32 @ ‘»Send to Joppa, and call Simon, whose surname is Peter. He lives in the house of the tanner named Simon by the sea. When he comes he will speak with you.’

nsb@Acts:10:36 @ »You know the Word of God was sent to the children of Israel. He presented peace through the anointed Lord of all, Jesus Christ. (Acts strkjv@2:36) (Jesus identified his father, Jehovah God, as Lord of all heaven and earth at Matthew strkjv@11:25)

nsb@Acts:10:38 @ God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil. God was with him.

nsb@Acts:10:39 @ »We are witnesses of all things that he did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a stake.

nsb@Acts:10:42 @ »He commanded us to preach to the people. We testify that he was ordained by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.

nsb@Acts:10:43 @ »All the prophets testify that through his name whoever believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins.«

nsb@Acts:10:45 @ Those circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed that the gift of Holy Spirit was also poured out on the people of the nations.

nsb@Acts:10:48 @ He ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.

nsb@Acts:11:1 @ The apostles and brothers in Judea heard that the people of the nations also received the word of God.

nsb@Acts:11:5 @ »I was in the city of Joppa praying. In a trance I saw a vision. A vessel descended like a great sheet. It let down from heaven by four corners and it came to me.

nsb@Acts:11:6 @ »I looked in it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things and birds of the air.

nsb@Acts:11:18 @ When they heard this they objected no more and praised God, saying: »God has granted the people of the nations repentance to life.«

nsb@Acts:11:19 @ Those who were scattered abroad because of the persecution of Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word only to the Jews.

nsb@Acts:11:20 @ Some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene. When they came to Antioch they spoke to the Greeks and preached the Lord Jesus.

nsb@Acts:11:21 @ The hand of God was with them. A great number believed, and turned to the Lord.

nsb@Acts:11:22 @ News of these things came to the ears of the congregation in Jerusalem. They sent Barnabas that he should go as far as Antioch.

nsb@Acts:11:23 @ When he arrived he saw the grace of God and was glad. He exhorted them all to remain true to the Lord as their only purpose of heart.

nsb@Acts:11:24 @ For he was a good man full of Holy Spirit and of faith. Then many people were added to the Lord.

nsb@Acts:11:28 @ One of them was named Agabus. He indicated through the Spirit that a great famine was about to come on the entire earth. He said it would come to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

nsb@Acts:12:1 @ At that time Herod the king mistreated those of the congregation.

nsb@Acts:12:2 @ He killed James the brother of John with a sword.

nsb@Acts:12:3 @ He saw that it pleased the Jews so he captured Peter also. This happened during the feast of unleavened bread.

nsb@Acts:12:4 @ When he apprehended him, he put him in prison. He turned him over to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him. After Passover he would be presented to the people.

nsb@Acts:12:7 @ Suddenly God’s angel came to him. A light shined in the prison. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up saying: »Get up quickly.« And his chains fell off of his hands.

nsb@Acts:12:9 @ Peter followed him out of the prison. He did not know what the angel was doing was really happening. He thought he saw a vision.

nsb@Acts:12:11 @ Peter came to himself and he said: »Now I know for sure that God sent his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the Jews.«

nsb@Acts:12:12 @ After he thought about what happened he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, surnamed Mark. Many were gathered there to pray.

nsb@Acts:12:17 @ Peter motioned for them to be quiet. Then he told them how God brought him out of the prison. He said: »Tell James and the brothers.« Then he went away to another place.

nsb@Acts:12:20 @ Herod highly disagreed with them at Tyre and Sidon. But they finally came to an agreement. They secured the support of Blastus a trusted personal servant of the king. They desired peace because their country was supported by the king’s country.

nsb@Acts:12:22 @ The people shouted: »It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.«

nsb@Acts:12:23 @ Immediately the angel of God killed him, because he did not give God the glory. He was eaten by worms and died.

nsb@Acts:12:24 @ The word of God increased and spread.

nsb@Acts:13:1 @ There were prophets and teachers in the congregation at Antioch. This included: Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

nsb@Acts:13:5 @ They preached the Word of God in the synagogues of the Jews at Salamis. John was also there as an attendant.

nsb@Acts:13:7 @ He was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man, who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

nsb@Acts:13:10 @ And said: »You child of the devil, full of all subtlety and mischief, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of Jehovah?

nsb@Acts:13:12 @ When he saw what was done the deputy believed. He was astonished at the teaching of God.

nsb@Acts:13:15 @ After the public reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying: »You men and brothers if you have a message of encouragement for the people speak.«

nsb@Acts:13:16 @ Then Paul stood up gestured with his hand and said: »Men of Israel, and you who reverence God, listen.«

nsb@Acts:13:17 @ »The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they lived as strangers in the land of Egypt. He brought them out of Egypt with his great strength.

nsb@Acts:13:21 @ »Afterward they desired a king. God gave Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, to them for forty years.

nsb@Acts:13:22 @ »When he removed him, he made David their king. He testified about him when he said: I found David the son of Jesse is a man after my own heart. He will do my will.

nsb@Acts:13:24 @ »Before Jesus came John preached the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

nsb@Acts:13:26 @ »Men and brothers, children of Abraham, and you of the nations who respect God, the message of salvation is sent to you.

nsb@Acts:13:27 @ »The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not know Jesus. They fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath when they condemned Jesus.

nsb@Acts:13:36 @ »After David served his own generation by doing the will of God he died and was buried with his fathers. His body decayed.

nsb@Acts:13:38 @ »You should know, men and brothers that it is through this man Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.

nsb@Acts:13:39 @ »Through him all who believe are justified from all things. You could not be justified through the Law of Moses.

nsb@Acts:13:43 @ When the congregation dismissed, many followed Paul and Barnabas. They urged them to continue in the grace of God.

nsb@Acts:13:44 @ Nearly the entire city gathered the next Sabbath day to hear the word of God.

nsb@Acts:13:46 @ Paul and Barnabas became very bold, and said: »It was necessary that the Word of God should first be spoken to you. But seeing you reject it you judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life! Therefore we turn to the people of the nations.

nsb@Acts:13:47 @ »Jehovah commanded us with these words: I appoint you as a light to the nations. My salvation will come to the ends of the earth.« (Isaiah strkjv@49:6)

nsb@Acts:13:48 @ And when the people of the nations heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were receptive to eternal life believed.

nsb@Acts:13:49 @ The word of God was published throughout the entire region.

nsb@Acts:13:50 @ The Jews incited the devout and honorable women and the leading men of the city. They caused persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their coasts.

nsb@Acts:14:1 @ Paul and Barnabas entered the synagogue of the Jews at Iconium. There they spoke to a great crowd of Jews and Greeks who became believers.

nsb@Acts:14:2 @ The unbelieving Jews stirred up the people of the nations and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

nsb@Acts:14:3 @ The apostles stayed there for a long time. They spoke boldly by the authority of God who proved that their message about his grace was true by giving them the power to perform miracles and wonders.

nsb@Acts:14:4 @ The people of the city were divided. Some were for the Jews and others for the apostles.

nsb@Acts:14:5 @ Then some of the people of the nations and Jews, together with their leaders, decided to mistreat the apostles and stone them.

nsb@Acts:14:6 @ They knew about it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the country around them.

nsb@Acts:14:13 @ Then the priest of Jupiter whose temple was there in the city, brought cattle and garlands to the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

nsb@Acts:14:14 @ When the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they ripped their clothes, and ran in among the people.

nsb@Acts:14:19 @ Jews from Antioch and Iconium took control of the crowd. They persuaded the people to stone Paul. Then they threw him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

nsb@Acts:14:22 @ They strengthened the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith. They said, »We must enter the kingdom of God through much tribulation.«

nsb@Acts:14:26 @ They sailed to Antioch, where they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work they completed.

nsb@Acts:14:27 @ The congregation gathered and reported all God had done with them how he had opened the door of faith to the nations.

nsb@Acts:15:1 @ Some men came down from Judea to teach the brothers. They said: »You cannot be saved unless you become circumcised according to the custom of Moses.«

nsb@Acts:15:3 @ The congregation sent them on their way. They passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations. They brought great joy to all the brothers.

nsb@Acts:15:5 @ The believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stated: »It is needed to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.«

nsb@Acts:15:10 @ »Why do you test God by placing a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, one that our fathers were not able to bear?

nsb@Acts:15:11 @ »We believe we are saved through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, as they also are.«

nsb@Acts:15:12 @ The crowd kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul. They declared the miracles and wonders God performed through them among the people of the nations.

nsb@Acts:15:14 @ »Simeon declared how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

nsb@Acts:15:15 @ »The words of the prophets agree to this for it is written:

nsb@Acts:15:16 @ »I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down. I will rebuild its ruins. I will restore it. (Amos strkjv@9:11,12)

nsb@Acts:15:17 @ »That the rest of mankind might seek after Jehovah, and all the nations, upon whom my name is called, Jehovah said, who is doing these things. (Amos strkjv@9:12)

nsb@Acts:15:18 @ »Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

nsb@Acts:15:19 @ »Therefore it is my decision not to trouble those of the nations who have turned to God.

nsb@Acts:15:23 @ They wrote letters as follows: »The apostles, elders and brothers send greeting to the brothers who are of the nations in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.

nsb@Acts:15:26 @ »These men have endangered their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nsb@Acts:15:29 @ »You should abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farwell.«

nsb@Acts:15:35 @ Paul and Barnabas stayed at Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of God, with many others also.

nsb@Acts:15:36 @ After time passed Paul said to Barnabas: »Let us go again and visit our brothers in every city where we have preached the Word of God, and see how they are doing.«

nsb@Acts:15:40 @ Paul chose Silas, and departed, being entrusted by the brothers to the grace of God.

nsb@Acts:16:1 @ Paul arrived at Derbe and Lystra where he saw a disciple named Timothy. He was the son of a Jewish woman, and his father was a Greek.

nsb@Acts:16:2 @ The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

nsb@Acts:16:3 @ Paul wanted to have him travel with him. So he had him circumcised because of the Jews who were in the area. For they knew that his father was a Greek.

nsb@Acts:16:6 @ The Holy Spirit did not let them preach the message in the province of Asia. So they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.

nsb@Acts:16:7 @ When they reached the border of Mysia, they tried to go into the province of Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.

nsb@Acts:16:12 @ From there we went inland to Philippi, a city of the first district of Macedonia. It is also a Roman colony. We spent several days there.

nsb@Acts:16:13 @ On the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the river where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and spoke to the women who gathered there.

nsb@Acts:16:14 @ A woman named Lydia who was a seller of purple came from Thyatira. She worshipped God because God opened her heart to listen to the things spoken by Paul.

nsb@Acts:16:16 @ A young woman who had a spirit of divination met us as we were going to the place of prayer. She brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.

nsb@Acts:16:17 @ She followed Paul and cried out: »These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.«

nsb@Acts:16:18 @ She did this for many days. This troubled Paul. So he turned and said to the spirit, »I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!« And it came out that very hour.

nsb@Acts:16:19 @ When her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they grabbed Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

nsb@Acts:16:21 @ »They offer customs that it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans.«

nsb@Acts:16:22 @ The crowd rose up against them. The magistrates ripped their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.

nsb@Acts:16:26 @ Suddenly there was a massive earthquake. It was so great the foundations of the prison-house were shaken. All the doors were opened and everyone’s bands came off.

nsb@Acts:16:27 @ The jailor, who was roused out of sleep and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

nsb@Acts:16:32 @ They spoke the Word of God to him and those in his house.

nsb@Acts:16:33 @ That very hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds. Then he and all his family were baptized.

nsb@Acts:16:35 @ The next day the magistrates sent the officers saying: »Let those men go.«

nsb@Acts:16:38 @ The officers reported these words to the magistrates. They feared when they heard that they were Romans.

nsb@Acts:16:40 @ They left the prison and entered the house of Lydia. When they saw the brothers they comforted them and then left.

nsb@Acts:17:1 @ They passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

nsb@Acts:17:4 @ Some of them were convinced and joined with Paul and Silas. A large crowd of the devout Greeks and of the prominent women also joined.

nsb@Acts:17:5 @ The Jews were moved with jealousy so they gathered bad people who organized a crowd for a riot. They assaulted the house of Jason in order to bring them out to the crowd.

nsb@Acts:17:6 @ When they did not find them they dragged Jason and other brothers before the rulers of the city. They said: »These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.«

nsb@Acts:17:7 @ Jason welcomed them. They all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

nsb@Acts:17:8 @ The crowd and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

nsb@Acts:17:10 @ The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived there they went to the synagogue of the Jews.

nsb@Acts:17:11 @ The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.

nsb@Acts:17:12 @ Many of them believed. So did the prominent Greek women and prominent men.

nsb@Acts:17:13 @ When the Jews of Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Beroea, they went there and stirred up the crowds and caused trouble.

nsb@Acts:17:16 @ Paul waited for them at Athens. His spirit was irritated within him when he saw the city full of idols.

nsb@Acts:17:19 @ They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus. They said, »May we know what is this new teaching?

nsb@Acts:17:22 @ Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said: »Men of Athens, in all things, I perceive that you are very religious.

nsb@Acts:17:23 @ « As I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: »To An Unknown God.« What you worship as unknown, this I will proclaim to you.

nsb@Acts:17:24 @ »The God that made the world and all things in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He does not live in temples made with hands.

nsb@Acts:17:26 @ »From one person he made every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. He determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation.

nsb@Acts:17:27 @ »God did this so man could seek him and might find him. He is not far from each one of us.

nsb@Acts:17:28 @ »In him we live, and move, and have our existence. Your own poets have said: For we are also his offspring.

nsb@Acts:17:29 @ »Being then the offspring of God, we should not think that the divine being is like gold, or silver, or stone, a device made by man’s design or skill.

nsb@Acts:17:30 @ »God overlooked the times of ignorance; but now he commands men everywhere to repent.

nsb@Acts:17:31 @ »He has established a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained. Of that he gives proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.« (John strkjv@5:22) (Isaiah strkjv@2:4) (Acts strkjv@10:42)

nsb@Acts:17:32 @ Some mocked when they heard about the resurrection of the dead. Yet others said: »We will hear you again concerning this«.

nsb@Acts:18:2 @ There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus who is currently from Italy with his wife Priscilla. Claudius commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. So he came to them.

nsb@Acts:18:3 @ He was of the same trade as Paul. So he stayed with them and worked at their tentmaker trade.

nsb@Acts:18:6 @ When they opposed Paul and treated him abusively he shook out his garment and said to them: »Your blood is upon your own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to the people of the nations.«

nsb@Acts:18:7 @ He left the synagogue and went next door to the house of a man named Titus Justus, one who worshiped God.

nsb@Acts:18:8 @ Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord and so did his household. Many of the Corinthians who heard and believed were baptized.

nsb@Acts:18:11 @ He lived there a year and six months teaching the word of God to them.

nsb@Acts:18:12 @ When Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat.

nsb@Acts:18:15 @ »But it involves questions about words and names in your own law so look to it yourselves. I will not be judge of these matters.«

nsb@Acts:18:17 @ They all grabbed Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the court. Gallio did not care about this.

nsb@Acts:18:18 @ Paul stayed many days. Then he left the brothers and sailed for Syria. Also with Paul were Priscilla and Aquila. Paul clipped this hair short in Cenchreae because of a vow.

nsb@Acts:18:23 @ After spending some time there he departed through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia strengthening all the disciples.

nsb@Acts:18:24 @ A Jew named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was an Alexandrian who had a comprehensive knowledge of the scriptures and spoke eloquently.

nsb@Acts:18:25 @ This man had been instructed in God’s way. Being fervent in spirit he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.

nsb@Acts:19:2 @ He said to them: »Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?« They said: »We have never even heard of a Holy Spirit.«

nsb@Acts:19:3 @ Paul asked: »What kind of baptism did you get?« They replied: »It was the baptism John taught.«

nsb@Acts:19:4 @ Paul said: »John baptized with the baptism of repentance. He told the people they should believe in Jesus, the one who came after John.«

nsb@Acts:19:5 @ When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

nsb@Acts:19:8 @ He entered the synagogue and spoke boldly reasoning and persuading about the kingdom of God. He did this for three months.

nsb@Acts:19:9 @ Some were obstinate and publicly maligned The Way before the crowds. He departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

nsb@Acts:19:10 @ This continued for two years so that all who lived in this part of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

nsb@Acts:19:11 @ God did special miracles by the hands of Paul.

nsb@Acts:19:13 @ Some Jews went around driving out evil spirits saying: »In the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches I command you to come out!«

nsb@Acts:19:14 @ And there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, and a chief priest, who did this.

nsb@Acts:19:16 @ The man who had the evil spirit jumped on them, and overpowered them. He gave them such a beating that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

nsb@Acts:19:17 @ This became known to all both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. They were all afraid. The name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

nsb@Acts:19:18 @ Many of the believers confessed openly about the evil things they had done.

nsb@Acts:19:19 @ Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books and burned them in the sight of everyone. When they totaled the value of them it came to about fifty thousand pieces of silver.

nsb@Acts:19:20 @ The word of God kept on growing and prevailed.

nsb@Acts:19:22 @ He sent two of his helpers Timothy and Erastus to Macedonia. He stayed in Asia for a while.

nsb@Acts:19:24 @ A man named Demetrius, a silversmith made silver shrines of Diana. He brought a lot of business to the craftsmen.

nsb@Acts:19:27 @ »There is danger that our trade will lose its good name. The temple of the great goddess Artemis would then become useless. The goddess who is worshiped in all Asia would be robbed of her divine majesty.«

nsb@Acts:19:28 @ When they heard this they were filled with anger. They shouted: »Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.«

nsb@Acts:19:29 @ The city was filled with the confusion. They rushed with one accord into the theatre and seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

nsb@Acts:19:31 @ Some of the officials and his friends sent him a message begging him not to enter the theatre.

nsb@Acts:19:32 @ Some cried one thing and others another for the crowd was in confusion. Most of them did not know why they assembled.

nsb@Acts:19:33 @ The crowd of Jews thrust Alexander forward. Alexander motioned with his hand and wanted to make a defense to the people.

nsb@Acts:19:34 @ They perceived that he was a Jew and all with one voice shouted for two hours: »Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.«

nsb@Acts:19:35 @ The city recorder quieted the crowd. He said: »You men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

nsb@Acts:19:37 @ »You brought these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

nsb@Acts:19:40 @ »For indeed we are in danger to be charged with rioting because of today’s events. We would not be able to account for this ruckus for there is no reason for it.«

nsb@Acts:20:4 @ Those who accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea, the son of Pyrrhus; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

nsb@Acts:20:6 @ We sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread. Five days later we met them at Troas, where we stayed seven days.

nsb@Acts:20:7 @ On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul spoke to them. Intending to depart the next morning he prolonged his speech until midnight.

nsb@Acts:20:16 @ Paul decided to sail past Ephesus so he might not spend time in Asia. He was in a hurry to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

nsb@Acts:20:17 @ At Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the congregation to him.

nsb@Acts:20:19 @ serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials that came on me by the plots of the Jews.

nsb@Acts:20:20 @ »I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house.

nsb@Acts:20:24 @ »I do not consider my life of any account. It is not dear to me so that I may finish the race, and I may accomplish the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to preach the good news of the grace of God.

nsb@Acts:20:25 @ »I know all of you and have preached the kingdom with you. But you will not see me again.

nsb@Acts:20:26 @ »I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

nsb@Acts:20:27 @ »I did not shrink from telling you the entire will of God.

nsb@Acts:20:28 @ »Be on guard for yourselves and the flock that the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Feed the Congregation of God that he purchased with the blood of his own.

nsb@Acts:20:32 @ »Now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace. This is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

nsb@Acts:20:35 @ »In all things I gave you an example. You by laboring should help the weak. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus: It is more blessed to give than to receive.«

nsb@Acts:20:37 @ They all wept profusely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him. (Genesis strkjv@45:14)

nsb@Acts:21:3 @ We passed to the south of Cyprus and sailed to Syria. We landed at Tyre where the ship unloaded it’s cargo.

nsb@Acts:21:5 @ When the time came we left there and went on our journey. All the disciples, their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city. We knelt down on the beach and prayed, and said goodbye.

nsb@Acts:21:8 @ The next morning we left for Caesarea where we entered the house of Philip the evangelist and one of the seven.

nsb@Acts:21:11 @ Coming to us he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands. He said: »The Holy Spirit says, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this belt, and shall deliver him into the hands of the nations.«

nsb@Acts:21:13 @ Why do you weep and break my heart? Paul answered: »For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.«

nsb@Acts:21:14 @ He would not be dissuaded. So we ceased, saying: The will of God be done!

nsb@Acts:21:16 @ The disciples from Caesarea brought us to the home of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we stayed.

nsb@Acts:21:25 @ Concerning those of the nations who have believed, we write: they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

nsb@Acts:21:26 @ Then Paul took the men and became purified with them. They went into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.

nsb@Acts:21:28 @ They shouted: »Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and defiled this holy place.«

nsb@Acts:21:30 @ The entire city was aroused, and the people ran together from all directions. They laid hold on Paul and dragged him out of the Temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

nsb@Acts:21:31 @ They were seeking to kill him when tidings came to the military commander of the band that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

nsb@Acts:21:34 @ Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another. The commander could not find out the facts because of the uproar so he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

nsb@Acts:21:35 @ Paul reached the steps. The violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers.

nsb@Acts:21:39 @ But Paul said, »I am a Jew, of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city and I request that you allow me to speak to the people.«

nsb@Acts:22:3 @ »I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in Jerusalem as a student of Gamaliel. I received instruction in the Law of our ancestors and was just as zealous for God as are all of you.

nsb@Acts:22:4 @ »I persecuted the people who followed this Way to the point of death. I arrested men and women and threw them into prison.

nsb@Acts:22:8 @ »Who are you, Lord?« I asked. »I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute,« he said to me.

nsb@Acts:22:9 @ »Everyone with me saw the light. They did not hear the voice of the one speaking to me.

nsb@Acts:22:11 @ »I was blind because of the bright light. So my companions took me by the hand and led me to Damascus.

nsb@Acts:22:14 @ »He said: ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will. You are to see his righteous servant, and to hear him speak with his own voice.

nsb@Acts:22:20 @ ‘»When your witness Stephen was put to death, I was there, approving of his murder and taking care of the coats of his murderers.’«

nsb@Acts:22:21 @ »The Lord said: ‘Go! I will send you far away to the people of the nations.’

nsb@Acts:22:22 @ The people listened to Paul until he said this. Then they shouted at the top of their voices: »Away with him! Kill him! He is not fit to live!«

nsb@Acts:22:23 @ They were screaming, throwing off their clothes, and throwing dust up in the air.

nsb@Acts:22:25 @ When they tied him up to be whipped Paul said to the officer standing there, »Is it lawful for you to whip a Roman citizen who has not been tried for a crime?«

nsb@Acts:22:26 @ When the officer heard this, he went to the commander and asked him: »What are you doing? That man is a Roman citizen!«

nsb@Acts:22:28 @ The commander said: »I became one by paying a large amount of money.« »I am one by birth,« Paul answered.

nsb@Acts:22:30 @ The commander wanted to find out for sure what the Jews were accusing Paul of. The next day he had Paul’s chains taken off and ordered the chief priests and the whole Council to meet. Then he took Paul and made him stand before them.

nsb@Acts:23:4 @ Those who stood near him said, »Do you revile the high priest of God?«

nsb@Acts:23:5 @ Then Paul said, »I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest. It is written: You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.«

nsb@Acts:23:6 @ When Paul saw that part of them were Sadducees and the other part Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin: »Men! Brothers! I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee! I am being judged because of the hope and resurrection of the dead.«

nsb@Acts:23:11 @ The following night the Lord stood by him and said: »Be of good courage, Paul, for just as you testified about me in Jerusalem, so you also must bear witness at Rome.«

nsb@Acts:23:12 @ When day arrived some of the Jews came together and united with an oath saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

nsb@Acts:23:17 @ Paul called one of the centurions and said: »Take this young man to the commander, for he has something to tell him.«

nsb@Acts:23:18 @ The officer took him to the commander, and said: »The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, because he has something to say to you.«

nsb@Acts:23:19 @ The commander took him by the hand and led him off by himself, and asked: »What do you have to tell me?«

nsb@Acts:23:23 @ He called two centurions, saying, »Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea. Also prepare seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night.

nsb@Acts:23:28 @ »I took him to their council to find out of what they accused him.

nsb@Acts:23:35 @ he said, »I will hear you fully when your accusers arrive.« He commanded him to be kept in the praetorian of Herod.

nsb@Acts:24:3 @ »We have seen peace under your rule. Excellent accomplishments have come to this nation due to your forethought. We acknowledge this with profound gratitude, most excellent Felix.

nsb@Acts:24:5 @ »We have found this man to be a troublemaker who stirs up sedition among all the Jews throughout the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

nsb@Acts:24:7 @ »But the Roman commander Lysias came to us with the use of force and snatched him from our hands.

nsb@Acts:24:14 @ »This I confess to you that according to The Way, which they call a sect, I serve the God of our fathers. I believe all the things written in the law and the prophets.

nsb@Acts:24:15 @ »I have hope toward God, which they also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

nsb@Acts:24:16 @ »I exercise myself always, to have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men.

nsb@Acts:24:17 @ »Now after many years I came to bring offerings and gifts of mercy to my nation.

nsb@Acts:24:21 @ »Except for one utterance I cried out while standing among them. It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am called in question by you this day.«

nsb@Acts:24:22 @ When Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them saying, »When Lysias the commander comes here I will decide your case.«

nsb@Acts:24:23 @ He commanded a centurion to keep Paul. Allow him some freedom of custody and that some of his people should come and minister to him.

nsb@Acts:25:5 @ He said: »Let those who have authority among you go there with me to present your case against this man if there is anything out of the way about the man.«

nsb@Acts:25:8 @ Paul defended himself: »Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I committed any sin.«

nsb@Acts:25:9 @ Festus was willing to do the Jews a favor, so he answered Paul: »Will you go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?«

nsb@Acts:25:11 @ »If I am a wrongdoer, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if charges brought against me by the Jews are not true no man has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.«

nsb@Acts:25:15 @ »When I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him. They desire to have judgment against him.

nsb@Acts:25:18 @ »When the accusers took the stand they produced no charge of the wicked things I supposed about him.

nsb@Acts:25:20 @ »Since I doubt such manner of questions, I asked him if he would go to Jerusalem to be judged there of these matters.

nsb@Acts:25:21 @ »Paul appealed to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus. So I commanded him to be kept until I might send him to Caesar.«

nsb@Acts:25:23 @ The next day Agrippa and Bernice arrived with great elegance. They entered the place of hearing with the commanders and important men of the city. Festus gave the order for Paul to be brought in.

nsb@Acts:25:24 @ Festus said, »King Agrippa and all men who are present with us, you see this man, about whom all the crowds of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he should not live any longer.

nsb@Acts:25:25 @ »I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death. He has appealed to Augustus and I have determined to send him.

nsb@Acts:26:2 @ »I would be happy, King Agrippa, to answer for myself before you concerning all the things of which the Jews accuse me.

nsb@Acts:26:5 @ »They knew me from the beginning. They could testify that I was from the strictest sect of our religion and I lived as a Pharisee.

nsb@Acts:26:6 @ »Now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers.

nsb@Acts:26:7 @ »Our twelve tribes served God day and night with the promise and hope of what was to come. It is because of this hope that the Jews accuse me, King Agrippa.

nsb@Acts:26:9 @ »I was convinced that I should oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

nsb@Acts:26:10 @ »That I did in Jerusalem. I locked up many of the holy ones in prison. I received authority from the chief priests and gave the command to put them to death.

nsb@Acts:26:16 @ »Stand up on your feet. I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of these things that you have seen, and of those things I will show to you.

nsb@Acts:26:18 @ »To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. They may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

nsb@Acts:26:20 @ »I preached first to Damascus, and to Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the people of the nations, that they should repent and turn to God, and prove their repentance by deeds.

nsb@Acts:26:25 @ But he answered back: »I am not mad, most noble Festus. I speak the words of truth and soberness!

nsb@Acts:26:26 @ »For the king knows about these things. I speak freely to him for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him. For this was not done in a corner.

nsb@Acts:26:31 @ As they left they talked between themselves, saying, »This man does nothing worthy of death or of prison.«

nsb@Acts:27:1 @ When it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and other prisoners to a man named Julius, a centurion of the band of Augustus.

nsb@Acts:27:2 @ We entered a ship at Adramyttium and set sail. We intended to sail by the coasts of Asia. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica was with us.

nsb@Acts:27:4 @ When we set sail from there we sailed under the shelter of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

nsb@Acts:27:5 @ When we sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

nsb@Acts:27:6 @ There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing to Italy. He put us on it.

nsb@Acts:27:7 @ We sailed slowly for many days and had problems arriving off Cnidus. The wind did not allow us to hold our course. So we sailed to the downwind part of Crete near Salmone.

nsb@Acts:27:8 @ It was difficult to move along the coast. We came to a place called Fair Havens near the town of Lasea.

nsb@Acts:27:10 @ »Men, I see that our voyage from here on will be dangerous. There will be great damage to the cargo and to the ship, and loss of life as well.«

nsb@Acts:27:11 @ But the army officer was convinced by what the captain and the owner of the ship said, and not by what Paul said.

nsb@Acts:27:12 @ It was not a good harbor in which to spend the winter. Nearly everyone was in favor of putting out to sea and trying to reach Phoenix in order to spend the winter there. Phoenix is a harbor in Crete that faces southwest and northwest.

nsb@Acts:27:13 @ A gentle wind from the south began to blow. The men thought they could accomplish their plan. So they pulled up the anchor and sailed as close as possible along the coast of Crete.

nsb@Acts:27:16 @ We had shelter when we passed to the south of the little island of Cauda. There, with some difficulty we managed to make the ship’s boat secure.

nsb@Acts:27:17 @ They pulled it aboard and then fastened some ropes tight around the ship. They were afraid that they might run into the sandbanks off the coast of Libya, so they lowered the sail and allowed the ship be carried by the wind.

nsb@Acts:27:18 @ The violent storm continued. The next day they began to throw some of the ship’s cargo overboard.

nsb@Acts:27:19 @ The following day they threw part of the ship’s equipment overboard.

nsb@Acts:27:20 @ The sun and stars did not appear for many days. No small tempest pressed upon us. All hope of our being saved was taken away.

nsb@Acts:27:22 @ »I urge you to be of good cheer for none of you will lose your life, only the ship.

nsb@Acts:27:23 @ »Last night an angel of the God of whom I serve stood beside me.

nsb@Acts:27:24 @ »He said, »Paul, do not be afraid. You must stand before Caessar and God has graciously given you the lives of you and all who sail with you.

nsb@Acts:27:25 @ »Be of good cheer. I believe God. It will happen just as he spoke to me.

nsb@Acts:27:27 @ On the fourteenth night we were driven to and fro in the sea of Adria. About midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

nsb@Acts:27:32 @ Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

nsb@Acts:27:33 @ At daybreak Paul encouraged all of them to eat some food, saying, »This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue without food.

nsb@Acts:27:34 @ »I encourage you to take some food for this is for your safety. Not a hair will perish from the head of any of you.«

nsb@Acts:27:35 @ After he said this he took some bread, gave thanks to God in the presence of all. He broke it and began to eat.

nsb@Acts:27:41 @ The ship stuck fast on a sandbar and ran aground. The bow struck fast and would not move. Then the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

nsb@Acts:28:3 @ Paul gathered an armful of sticks and put them on the fire. A snake came out on account of the heat and fastened itself to his hand.

nsb@Acts:28:5 @ But Paul shook the snake off into the fire without being harmed at all.

nsb@Acts:28:7 @ A man named Publius, who was the governor of the island, had property around the area. He welcomed us and treated us kindly. We were his guests for three days.

nsb@Acts:28:12 @ We stopped at the city of Syracuse and stayed there three days.

nsb@Acts:28:13 @ We sailed from Syracuse and arrived at the city of Rhegium. The next day a south wind began to blow, and two days later we arrived at the city of Puteoli.

nsb@Acts:28:14 @ We came across some of the brothers, who kept us with them for seven days; and so we arrived at Rome.

nsb@Acts:28:17 @ Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews. When they assembled, he said to them: »My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

nsb@Acts:28:18 @ »They questioned me and were ready to set me free, for they found me not guilty of any crime deserving death.

nsb@Acts:28:20 @ The reason I sent for you is to talk with you. I am in these chains because of the hope of Israel.«

nsb@Acts:28:21 @ They said to him: »We have not had letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers have come to us to give an account or say any evil about you.

nsb@Acts:28:23 @ So they set a date with Paul. A large number of them came that day to the place where Paul was staying. From morning till night he explained his message about the Kingdom of God to them. He tried to convince them about Jesus by quoting from the Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets.

nsb@Acts:28:24 @ Some of them were convinced by his words, but others did not believe.

nsb@Acts:28:27 @ ‘»These people have closed their mind and are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that their eyes never see. Their ears never hear. Their minds never understand. They never turn to me for healing.’

nsb@Romans:1:1 @ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, appointed for the good news of God,

nsb@Romans:1:3 @ This is about his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who came from the seed of David according to the flesh.

nsb@Romans:1:4 @ He was declared to be the Son of God with power through the Spirit of Holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

nsb@Romans:1:7 @ To all who are in Rome, beloved of God and called to be holy ones: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nsb@Romans:1:8 @ First, I thank my God for all of you through Jesus Christ, for your faith is reported throughout the whole world.

nsb@Romans:1:9 @ God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the good news of his Son. Without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers.

nsb@Romans:1:10 @ I pray that I might by the will of God successfully come to you.

nsb@Romans:1:13 @ I want you to know, brothers, that I was often determined to come to you, but was hindered until now, that I might have some fruit among you as well as the rest of the nations.

nsb@Romans:1:16 @ I am not ashamed of the good news; for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who exerts active faith, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

nsb@Romans:1:17 @ It reveals the righteousness of God from faith-to-faith for it is written: »The righteous shall live by faith.«

nsb@Romans:1:18 @ The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.

nsb@Romans:1:20 @ His invisible attributes are clearly seen since the creation of the world. The things made prove His eternal power and divine nature. Mankind has no excuse,

nsb@Romans:1:23 @ They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

nsb@Romans:1:24 @ God gave them up to uncleanness because of the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.

nsb@Romans:1:25 @ They changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

nsb@Romans:1:27 @ Also the men left the natural use of the woman and burned in their lust, one toward another; men with men working that which is obscene. They receive full recompense due for their error.

nsb@Romans:1:29 @ They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers,

nsb@Romans:1:30 @ backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

nsb@Romans:1:32 @ They know the judgment of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death! And yet, they not only do the same, but also approve of those who do them.

nsb@Romans:2:2 @ We are sure that the judgment of God, according to truth, is against those who commit such things.

nsb@Romans:2:3 @ What do you reason O man? When you judge these things, and you also do them, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God?

nsb@Romans:2:4 @ Do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and long-suffering? Do you not know that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

nsb@Romans:2:5 @ Thanks to your stubborn and unrepentant heart, you store up wrath for yourself, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

nsb@Romans:2:13 @ The hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be righteous.

nsb@Romans:2:14 @ When those of the nations, who have no law, practice by nature the things of the law they are a law to themselves even though they do not have any law.

nsb@Romans:2:15 @ They show the work of the law written in their hearts. Their conscience also bears witness, and their thoughts accuse or excuse them.

nsb@Romans:2:16 @ This is in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, by Jesus Christ.

nsb@Romans:2:18 @ you know his will. You approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law.

nsb@Romans:2:19 @ And you have confidence that you are a leader of the blind, a light to those in darkness.

nsb@Romans:2:20 @ You are an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

nsb@Romans:2:23 @ You who boast in the law do you by transgression of the law dishonor God?

nsb@Romans:2:24 @ The name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, just as it is written. (Ezekiel strkjv@36:20, 21)

nsb@Romans:2:25 @ Circumcision is a benefit if you obey the law. But if you are a transgressor of the law your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

nsb@Romans:2:26 @ If therefore someone not circumcised obeys the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be considered circumcision?

nsb@Romans:2:29 @ But he is a Jew who is so on the inside with circumcision of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

nsb@Romans:3:1 @ What then is the superiority of the Jew? What is the benefit of circumcision?

nsb@Romans:3:2 @ Much in every way. First they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

nsb@Romans:3:3 @ For what? If some have not believed, will their unbelief make the faith of God of no effect?

nsb@Romans:3:8 @ Why not say, »Let us do evil so that good may come?« Some people have insulted me by accusing me of saying this very thing! They should be condemned and they will be.

nsb@Romans:3:9 @ Are we Jews in any better condition than the people of the nations? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and the people of the nations are all under the power of sin.

nsb@Romans:3:13 @ »Their throat is an open grave. They have practiced deceit with their tongues. The poison of snakes is under their lips.« (Psalm strkjv@5:9)

nsb@Romans:3:14 @ »Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.« (Psalm strkjv@10:7)

nsb@Romans:3:17 @ »They have not known the way of peace.« (Isaiah strkjv@59:7, 8)

nsb@Romans:3:20 @ No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.

nsb@Romans:3:21 @ But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets.

nsb@Romans:3:23 @ For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God

nsb@Romans:3:25 @ God displayed Christ publicly as propitiation by his blood through faith. It demonstrated his righteousness. It was through the forbearance of God that he passed by the sins that had taken place before.

nsb@Romans:3:26 @ It showed his righteousness at this present season that he might himself be righteous, and the justifier of he who has faith in Jesus.

nsb@Romans:3:27 @ Where is the boasting? It is excluded. Is it by law? Is it by works? No, it is by a principle of faith.

nsb@Romans:3:28 @ We reason therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

nsb@Romans:3:29 @ Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the nations also? Yes, of the nations also.

nsb@Romans:4:11 @ He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while he was not circumcised. That way he could be the father of all those who believe, though they are not circumcised, that righteousness might be counted to them.

nsb@Romans:4:12 @ The father of circumcision to those who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the steps of faith of our father Abraham that he had when he was not circumcised.

nsb@Romans:4:13 @ The promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world was not through the law but through righteousness by faith.

nsb@Romans:4:14 @ If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

nsb@Romans:4:16 @ For this reason it is by faith that it may be according to grace. The promise may be sure to all descendants! This is not only to that which is of the law, but to that also which is by the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

nsb@Romans:4:17 @ It is written: »I have made you a father of many nations.« in the presence of God, the one in whom he believed. He gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which does not exist.

nsb@Romans:4:18 @ In hope against hope Abraham believed that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken: »So your descendants will be.«

nsb@Romans:4:19 @ Not being weak in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

nsb@Romans:4:20 @ Yet, he looked to the promise of God. He did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith. He gave the glory to God!

nsb@Romans:5:2 @ We have access to grace by faith through him. This is where we stand. We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

nsb@Romans:5:5 @ Hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts. It comes through Holy Spirit, which is God’s gift to us.

nsb@Romans:5:9 @ Much more, now justified by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath of God through him.

nsb@Romans:5:10 @ While we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son. Being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

nsb@Romans:5:14 @ Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even for those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam’s transgression. Adam is in some ways like Christ who came later.

nsb@Romans:5:15 @ But the two are not the same, because God’s gift is not like Adam’s sin. It is true that many people died because of the sin of that one man. But God’s grace is much greater, and so is his gift to so many people through the loving-kindness of the one man, Jesus Christ.

nsb@Romans:5:16 @ And there is a difference between God’s gift and the sin of one man. After the one sin, came the guilty judgment; but after so many sins, comes the undeserved gift of righteousness.

nsb@Romans:5:17 @ It was by the transgression of the one that death ruled as king through that one. Even more so shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, rule as kings in life by the one, Jesus Christ.

nsb@Romans:5:18 @ The result of one trespass was condemnation for all men. The result of righteousness was justification, which brings life for all men.

nsb@Romans:5:19 @ Through the disobedience of one man many have been made sinners. Yet through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.

nsb@Romans:6:4 @ We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death. Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, that we might walk in the newness of life.

nsb@Romans:6:5 @ If we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection.

nsb@Romans:6:6 @ We know this that our old self was impaled with him that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer be in bondage to sin.

nsb@Romans:6:13 @ Also do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God.

nsb@Romans:6:17 @ But thanks to God, that you were the servants of sin yet you became obedient from the heart to the teachings delivered to you.

nsb@Romans:6:18 @ After being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.

nsb@Romans:6:19 @ I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. You once presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to sin. Now you present your members as servants to righteousness and sanctification.

nsb@Romans:6:20 @ When you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

nsb@Romans:6:21 @ You are now ashamed of the fruit you had at that time. For the results of these things is death.

nsb@Romans:6:23 @ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

nsb@Romans:7:2 @ Law binds the married woman to her husband while he lives. But if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

nsb@Romans:7:4 @ Brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

nsb@Romans:7:6 @ We have been discharged from the law. We have died to that by which we were held. So we serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

nsb@Romans:7:8 @ But sin, finding occasion, worked out in me through the commandment all manner of coveting. Apart from the law sin is dead.

nsb@Romans:7:22 @ My inner person delights in the law of God.

nsb@Romans:7:23 @ However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body.

nsb@Romans:7:25 @ Thanks to God, through our Lord Jesus Christ! So then I can serve God’s law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.

nsb@Romans:8:2 @ The law of the Spirit gives us life through Christ Jesus. It has set me free from the law of sin and death.

nsb@Romans:8:3 @ God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature.

nsb@Romans:8:4 @ God did this so that the righteous requirements of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature.

nsb@Romans:8:5 @ They who live according to flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh. They who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

nsb@Romans:8:6 @ The mind of sinful flesh means death; but the mind influenced by the Spirit gives life and peace.

nsb@Romans:8:7 @ This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be.

nsb@Romans:8:9 @ But you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him.

nsb@Romans:8:10 @ If Christ is with you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness.

nsb@Romans:8:11 @ If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from among the dead dwells with you, he who raised Christ from among the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive. This is on account of his Spirit that dwells with you.

nsb@Romans:8:13 @ for if you live according to flesh, you are about to die. If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

nsb@Romans:8:14 @ All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

nsb@Romans:8:15 @ For you have not received a spirit of bondage again causing fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Father, Father!.

nsb@Romans:8:16 @ The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God.

nsb@Romans:8:17 @ If children, then heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him we may also be glorified with him.

nsb@Romans:8:18 @ I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us.

nsb@Romans:8:19 @ For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.

nsb@Romans:8:20 @ For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it’s own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope.

nsb@Romans:8:21 @ The creation will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

nsb@Romans:8:23 @ We also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption and the release from our bodies by ransom.

nsb@Romans:8:27 @ So he who searches the hearts knows what is the inclination of the Spirit, because the Spirit makes intercession for the holy ones according to the will of God.

nsb@Romans:8:29 @ Those he first recognized, he ordained in advance that they be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

nsb@Romans:8:34 @ Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

nsb@Romans:8:35 @ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

nsb@Romans:8:39 @ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ephesians strkjv@6:12)

nsb@Romans:9:3 @ I could wish that I were accursed from Christ for the good of my countrymen and brothers.

nsb@Romans:9:4 @ They are Israelites and the adoption belongs to them. They have the glory of the covenants. The law was given to them along with the service and promises.

nsb@Romans:9:6 @ It is not as if the word of God failed. Not all who come from Israel are really Israel.

nsb@Romans:9:8 @ That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as seed.

nsb@Romans:9:9 @ The word of promise: »According to this time I will come and Sarah will have a son.«

nsb@Romans:9:11 @ When they had not yet been born nor performed anything good or vile, so the purpose of God regarding the choosing would continue without dependence on works but on the One who calls.

nsb@Romans:9:21 @ Or does the potter not have authority over the clay? Can he make out of the same lump one vessel to honor, and another for common use? (Jeremiah strkjv@18:6)

nsb@Romans:9:22 @ If God decided to show his wrath and make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fit for destruction.

nsb@Romans:9:23 @ In that way he could make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he had prepared in advance for glory.

nsb@Romans:9:26 @ In the place where it was said to them: »You are not my people, they will be called Sons of the living God.« (Hosea strkjv@2:23)

nsb@Romans:9:27 @ Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: »Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved.

nsb@Romans:9:29 @ Just as Isaiah said earlier: »Unless Jehovah of Hosts had left a seed to us, we should have become like Sodom, and Gomorrah.« (Isaiah strkjv@1:9)

nsb@Romans:9:30 @ What shall we say? The nations did not pursue righteousness. Yet they have attained to righteousness, the righteousness that is based on the principle of faith.

nsb@Romans:9:31 @ But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.

nsb@Romans:9:32 @ Why? It is because it was not based on the principle of faith, but on that of works. They have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

nsb@Romans:9:33 @ It is written: »Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence and he that believes on him will not be ashamed.« (Isaiah strkjv@8:14)

nsb@Romans:10:3 @ They are ignorant of God’s righteousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

nsb@Romans:10:4 @ Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who exerts active faith.

nsb@Romans:10:5 @ Moses writes down the righteousness that is of the law. The man who has practiced those things shall live by them.

nsb@Romans:10:6 @ But the righteousness of faith speaks this way: »Do not say in your heart: ‘who will ascend to heaven? That is, to bring Christ down;

nsb@Romans:10:8 @ But what does it say? »The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.« It is the »word« of faith, which we preach. (Deuteronomy strkjv@30:8-20)

nsb@Romans:10:12 @ For there is no difference between Jew and Greek. The same Lord of all is abounding in riches for all who call on him.

nsb@Romans:10:13 @ »Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.« (Joel strkjv@2:32)

nsb@Romans:10:14 @ How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone to preach?

nsb@Romans:10:15 @ How will they preach unless they have been sent? Just as it is written: »How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace and who bring good tidings of good things! For they proclaim salvation and say to Zion: »Your God reigns as king!« (Isaiah strkjv@52:7)

nsb@Romans:10:18 @ I say: Have they not heard? Yes in fact their sound went »into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited earth.« (Psalm strkjv@19:4)

nsb@Romans:11:1 @ I ask has God rejected his people? Certainly not! I also am an Israelite, a descendant of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

nsb@Romans:11:4 @ What does God say in answer to him? »I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.«

nsb@Romans:11:6 @ If it is by grace then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is not grace. But if it is of works then it is not by grace. Otherwise works are no longer works.

nsb@Romans:11:8 @ It is written, »God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear to this very day.« (Deuteronomy strkjv@29:4)

nsb@Romans:11:12 @ Now if their fall into sin means riches to the world, and their decrease means riches of the nations how much more will their full number mean?

nsb@Romans:11:13 @ I speak to you people of the nations. For I am the apostle to the nations and I glorify my ministry.

nsb@Romans:11:14 @ If by any means I may provoke those who are of my flesh, and might save some of them.

nsb@Romans:11:17 @ Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them.

nsb@Romans:11:19 @ You will say, »The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.«

nsb@Romans:11:20 @ They were broken off because of unbelief! You stand by faith! Do not be conceited but be reverent.

nsb@Romans:11:22 @ Observe both God’s kindness and severity. Severity is for those who fail to continue. But kindness is for you as long as you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you will be cut off.

nsb@Romans:11:24 @ If you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a garden olive tree: how much more could these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

nsb@Romans:11:25 @ I do not want you to be ignorant of this secret, lest you should be wise in your own conceits. Blindness has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations comes in.

nsb@Romans:11:26 @ In this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: The deliverer will come out of Zion and will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

nsb@Romans:11:29 @ The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

nsb@Romans:11:33 @ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments. His ways are beyond human understanding!

nsb@Romans:11:34 @ For who has known the mind of Jehovah? Or who has been his counselor? (Isaiah strkjv@40:13)

nsb@Romans:12:1 @ I request you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

nsb@Romans:12:2 @ Do not be conformed to this world. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

nsb@Romans:12:3 @ I say through the grace given to me that every man among you should not think more highly of himself than he ought to think. But to think soberly, just as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

nsb@Romans:12:5 @ These many members are one body in Christ, and every one, individually, is a member one of the other.

nsb@Romans:12:6 @ We have gifts that differ according to the grace that is given to us. Whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

nsb@Romans:12:13 @ Contribute to the needs of the holy ones and practice hospitality.

nsb@Romans:12:16 @ Be of the same mind as others. Do not think lofty things but be led along by lowly things. Do not be wise in your own conceit.

nsb@Romans:12:17 @ Return evil for evil to no man. Provide honest things in the sight of all men.

nsb@Romans:12:20 @ Therefore if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.

nsb@Romans:13:2 @ Whoever opposes the authority resists the ordinance of God. Those who resist will receive judgment.

nsb@Romans:13:3 @ For rulers are objects of fear, not to good works, but to the evil. Will you not have respect for the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from it.

nsb@Romans:13:4 @ He is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid for he does not bear the sword in vain. He is the minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.

nsb@Romans:13:5 @ You must be in subjection, not only because of that wrath, but also for the sake of your conscience.

nsb@Romans:13:7 @ Render therefore to all their due. Provide tribute to whom tribute is due. Give custom to whom custom is owed. Render fear to whom fear is owed and offer honor to whom honor is deserved.

nsb@Romans:13:12 @ The night is far along and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

nsb@Romans:13:14 @ Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

nsb@Romans:14:7 @ For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.

nsb@Romans:14:9 @ To this end Christ both died, and rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.

nsb@Romans:14:10 @ Why do you judge your brother? Why do you look down on your brother with contempt? We will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

nsb@Romans:14:12 @ So then every one of us will give account of himself to God.

nsb@Romans:14:15 @ If because of your food your brother is grieved, you do not walk in love. Do not allow what you eat to destroy the one for whom Christ died.

nsb@Romans:14:16 @ Do not let the good you do be spoken of as evil.

nsb@Romans:14:17 @ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

nsb@Romans:14:18 @ For he that serves Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of by men.

nsb@Romans:14:20 @ Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense.

nsb@Romans:14:21 @ It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened.

nsb@Romans:15:2 @ Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.

nsb@Romans:15:5 @ Now may the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus.

nsb@Romans:15:6 @ To this end you may glorify God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one mind and one accord.

nsb@Romans:15:7 @ Receive one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

nsb@Romans:15:8 @ Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcised for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers.

nsb@Romans:15:9 @ That the nations might glorify God for his mercy as it is written: »For this cause I will confess you to the people of the nations, and sing to your name.«

nsb@Romans:15:12 @ And again, Isaiah says: »Then in that day the nations will search for and turn to the root of Jesse. He will stand as a signal for the peoples. His resting place will be glorious.« (Isaiah strkjv@11:10)

nsb@Romans:15:13 @ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

nsb@Romans:15:14 @ I am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

nsb@Romans:15:15 @ Nevertheless, brothers, I have written more boldly to you on some points, keeping you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me from God,

nsb@Romans:15:16 @ That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, ministering the good news of God, that the offering of these nations might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

nsb@Romans:15:18 @ I will not dare to speak of any of those things that Christ has not accomplished through me. I will lead the nations to obey God in word and deed.

nsb@Romans:15:19 @ Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God. From Jerusalem, and round about Illyricum, I have fully preached the good news of Christ.

nsb@Romans:15:26 @ It pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor holy ones in Jerusalem.

nsb@Romans:15:27 @ It pleased them to do so and they are debtors for this. If the nations have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in physical things.

nsb@Romans:15:29 @ I am sure that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the good news of Christ.

nsb@Romans:15:30 @ Now I beg you, brothers, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me.

nsb@Romans:15:32 @ That I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

nsb@Romans:15:33 @ The God of peace be with you all. Amen.

nsb@Romans:16:1 @ I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a minister of the congregation at Cenchrea.

nsb@Romans:16:2 @ Receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the holy ones. Assist her in whatever business she has need of from you. She has been a great help to many people including me.

nsb@Romans:16:4 @ They have risked their own necks for my life. I not only thank them but also the congregations of the nations give thanks.

nsb@Romans:16:5 @ Likewise greet the congregation that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is of the first fruits of Asia to Christ.

nsb@Romans:16:10 @ Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them that are of Aristobulus’ household.

nsb@Romans:16:11 @ Greet my relative Herodion. Greet those who are of the household of Narcissus, for they are in the Lord.

nsb@Romans:16:16 @ Greet one another with a holy kiss. The congregations of Christ greet you.

nsb@Romans:16:17 @ Now I beseech you, brothers, mark those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine you have learned and avoid them.

nsb@Romans:16:18 @ They do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unaware.

nsb@Romans:16:20 @ The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

nsb@Romans:16:23 @ Gaius my host and the whole congregation, salutes you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city salutes you, and Quartus a brother.

nsb@Romans:16:24 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

nsb@Romans:16:25 @ Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, which was kept secret since the world began.

nsb@Romans:16:26 @ It is now made known by the Scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting God. It is made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:1 @ This letter is from Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:2 @ To the congregation of God at Corinth. To you, who are sanctified in Christ Jesus. You who are called to be holy ones, with all whom in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. He is both their Lord and ours.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:4 @ I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God that is given you by Jesus Christ.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:6 @ The testimony of Christ was confirmed in you.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:7 @ You do not lack spiritual gifts as you wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:8 @ He will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:9 @ God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:10 @ I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there are no divisions among you. You should be perfectly joined together in the same mind and thought.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:11 @ The house of Chloe told me, my brothers, that there are disputes among you.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:12 @ Concerning that I say, that each one of you said, »I follow Paul;« and »I follow Apollos;« and »I follow Cephas;« and »I follow Christ.«

nsb@1Corinthians:1:13 @ Is Christ divided? Was Paul impaled for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

nsb@1Corinthians:1:14 @ I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:16 @ I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides that I do not know whether I baptized any others.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:17 @ Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news: not with wisdom of words, lest the stake of Christ be emptied of its effect.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:18 @ For the preaching of the stake is foolishness to those who perish. It is the power of God to us who are saved.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:19 @ It is written: »I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.« (Isaiah strkjv@29:14)

nsb@1Corinthians:1:20 @ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

nsb@1Corinthians:1:21 @ This is the wisdom of God that the world through its wisdom did not come to know God. God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:24 @ To those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, it is Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:25 @ For the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:27 @ Instead God chose the foolish things of the world to confuse the wise. God chose the weak things of the world to confuse the things that are mighty.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:28 @ God also chose the base things of the world, and things which are despised, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are.

nsb@1Corinthians:1:30 @ It is because of him you are united with Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

nsb@1Corinthians:2:1 @ Brothers, I did not come to you with superiority of speech or with human wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:2:4 @ My speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

nsb@1Corinthians:2:5 @ that your faith should not exist in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:2:6 @ How is it we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who come to nothing?

nsb@1Corinthians:2:7 @ We speak the wisdom of God in a secret, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages for our glory.

nsb@1Corinthians:2:8 @ None of the rulers of this age knew for had they known it they would not have impaled the glorious Lord.

nsb@1Corinthians:2:9 @ It is written: »Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, and it has not entered into the heart of man, the things God prepared for those who love him.« (Isaiah strkjv@64:4)

nsb@1Corinthians:2:10 @ But God revealed them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit investigates all things, yes even the deep things of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:2:11 @ For what man knows the things of a man, except the mental disposition that is in man? Even so no one knows the things of God, but the Spirit of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:2:12 @ Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God. This is so we might know the things that are freely given to us from God.

nsb@1Corinthians:2:14 @ But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him! He cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

nsb@1Corinthians:2:16 @ »Who has understood the mind of Jehovah, or has instructed him, as his counselor?« (Isaiah strkjv@40:13) But we do have the mind of Christ.

nsb@1Corinthians:3:10 @ According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man take heed how he builds.

nsb@1Corinthians:3:16 @ Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

nsb@1Corinthians:3:17 @ God will destroy any man who defiles the temple of God! For the temple of God is holy. You are that temple!

nsb@1Corinthians:3:19 @ For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. It is written: »He catches the wise in their own craftiness.« (Job strkjv@5:13)

nsb@1Corinthians:3:20 @ And again: »Jehovah knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.« (Psalm strkjv@94:11)

nsb@1Corinthians:4:1 @ People should regard us as servants of Christ. God has trusted us with his secrets.

nsb@1Corinthians:4:2 @ It is required of stewards that a man is trustworthy.

nsb@1Corinthians:4:5 @ Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man’s praise will come from God.

nsb@1Corinthians:4:6 @ Brothers I have applied these things to myself and to Apollos for your sakes. That way you might learn the value of the saying: Do not go beyond the things written. None of you should be arrogant against one another.

nsb@1Corinthians:4:13 @ being slandered, we answer kindly. We are made as the filth of the world and are the refuse of all things to this day.

nsb@1Corinthians:4:17 @ I send Timothy, my beloved son faithful in the Lord, to you for this purpose. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ, just as I teach it in every congregation.

nsb@1Corinthians:4:20 @ For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

nsb@1Corinthians:4:21 @ What do you want? Shall I come to you with punishment or with love, and in the mild spirit of meekness?

nsb@1Corinthians:5:1 @ It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations. There is a man who has his father’s wife.

nsb@1Corinthians:5:4 @ When you assemble in the name and with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, I will be with you in spirit.

nsb@1Corinthians:5:5 @ Deliver this one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

nsb@1Corinthians:5:6 @ Your boasting is not good. Do you know that a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough?

nsb@1Corinthians:5:7 @ Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new batch of dough. For even Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us.

nsb@1Corinthians:5:8 @ Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

nsb@1Corinthians:5:10 @ Yet you cannot completely avoid the fornicators of this world, nor the greedy persons, nor cheaters and robbers, nor those who worship idols. To do so you would have to leave this world.

nsb@1Corinthians:6:4 @ If you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, would you appoint as judges those who mean nothing to the congregation?

nsb@1Corinthians:6:9 @ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

nsb@1Corinthians:6:10 @ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:6:11 @ That is what some of you were. You have been washed clean and now you are sanctified. The Spirit of our God declares you righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus.

nsb@1Corinthians:6:12 @ All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the authority of anything.

nsb@1Corinthians:6:13 @ Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

nsb@1Corinthians:6:15 @ Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and unite them with the members of a prostitute? God forbid!

nsb@1Corinthians:6:19 @ What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.

nsb@1Corinthians:7:5 @ Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for a time. That way you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

nsb@1Corinthians:7:19 @ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing. Obey the commandments of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:7:23 @ You are bought with a price. Stop being slaves of men.

nsb@1Corinthians:7:25 @ Now concerning virgins I have no commandment from the Lord. Yet I give my opinion as one who has obtained the mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

nsb@1Corinthians:7:26 @ Because of the present distress I think it is good for you to remain as you are.

nsb@1Corinthians:7:31 @ Those who use this world should not abuse it, for the fashion of this world is passing away.

nsb@1Corinthians:7:33 @ But he who is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

nsb@1Corinthians:7:34 @ There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. She who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

nsb@1Corinthians:7:35 @ I say this for your benefit and not to restrict you. I show you how to live a noble life of devotion to the Lord without being distracted by other things.

nsb@1Corinthians:7:40 @ But she is happier if she remains as she is. This is my opinion and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:8:1 @ Concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

nsb@1Corinthians:8:4 @ Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

nsb@1Corinthians:8:7 @ Not all people know this. Some eat food offered to idols and their conscience being weak is defiled.

nsb@1Corinthians:8:10 @ If any man with knowledge sees you having a meal from an idol’s temple, will the conscience of the weak one be emboldened to eat food offered to idols?

nsb@1Corinthians:8:11 @ And because of your knowledge the weak brother will perish. Christ died for him!

nsb@1Corinthians:9:2 @ If I am not an apostle to others, I most certainly am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

nsb@1Corinthians:9:5 @ Do we have a right to lead a sister as a wife just like other apostles, and as brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

nsb@1Corinthians:9:7 @ Does a soldier serve at his own expense? Does the one who plants a vineyard not eat of the fruit it produces? Who shepherds a flock and does not eat some of the milk from the flock?

nsb@1Corinthians:9:8 @ I say this from a human point of view. Does the law say the same thing?

nsb@1Corinthians:9:9 @ It is written in the Law of Moses: You should not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God care only about oxen?

nsb@1Corinthians:9:10 @ Or did he say it for our benefit? This is written for our benefit without a doubt! He who plows should plow in hope. Likewise he who threshes in hope should be a partaker of his hope.

nsb@1Corinthians:9:12 @ If others are partakers of the right over you, should we also partake? Nevertheless we have not used this power! We suffer all things, lest we should hinder the good news of Christ.

nsb@1Corinthians:9:13 @ Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live off the things of the temple? And they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

nsb@1Corinthians:9:15 @ But I have used none of these rights! Neither have I written these things, that it should be done to me. It would be better for me to die, than that any man should make my reason for boasting void.

nsb@1Corinthians:9:17 @ For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward. But if I do it against my will, I am just performing the trust of the good news committed to me.

nsb@1Corinthians:9:18 @ What is my reward then? When I preach the good news, I may offer the good news of Christ without charge. That is way I do not abuse my power in the good news.

nsb@1Corinthians:9:23 @ And this I do for the sake of the good news that I might be a partaker of it with others.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:4 @ They all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them. That Rock was Christ! (Exodus strkjv@7:6) (Numbers strkjv@20:11)

nsb@1Corinthians:10:5 @ God was not pleased with most of them. And their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:7 @ Do not be idolaters like some of them. It is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:8 @ Do not commit fornication like some of them committed. Twenty three thousand of them died in one day.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:9 @ Do not test Jehovah like some of them also did and were destroyed by serpents.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:10 @ Do not grumble like some of them grumbled. Venomous snakes killed them.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:11 @ These things happened for examples, and they are written for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:16 @ The cup of blessing we bless, is it not the sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is it not the sharing of the body of Christ?

nsb@1Corinthians:10:17 @ For we being many are one-bread and one-body. We are all partakers of that one bread.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:18 @ Is physical Israel the ones who eat the sacrifices, the partakers of the altar?

nsb@1Corinthians:10:19 @ What do I mean? That the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

nsb@1Corinthians:10:21 @ You cannot drink the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Jehovah's Table and of the table of demons. (Malachi strkjv@1:12)

nsb@1Corinthians:10:24 @ Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:25 @ Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without asking questions for the sake of conscience.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:28 @ But if any man says to you: »This is offered in sacrifice to idols,« do not eat for the sake of the one who said it and for conscience sake.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:29 @ Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: Yet why is my freedom judged by another man's conscience?

nsb@1Corinthians:10:31 @ Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:32 @ Do not stumble or offend, neither to the Jews, nor to the nations, nor to the congregation of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:10:33 @ Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

nsb@1Corinthians:11:1 @ Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

nsb@1Corinthians:11:3 @ I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

nsb@1Corinthians:11:7 @ For a man should not cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

nsb@1Corinthians:11:10 @ That is why the woman should have a sign of authority on her head because of the angels.

nsb@1Corinthians:11:16 @ If anyone is contentious about this we have no other practice, neither do the congregations of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:11:18 @ For first of all, when you come together in the congregation, I hear that there are divisions among you and I partly believe it.

nsb@1Corinthians:11:22 @ Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the congregation of God, and shame them that have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I will not praise you!

nsb@1Corinthians:11:24 @ And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, »Take and eat. This represents my body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.«

nsb@1Corinthians:11:25 @ In the same manner, after supper, he took the cup, saying, »This cup represents the new covenant of my blood. Drink this as often as you do it in remembrance of me.«

nsb@1Corinthians:11:26 @ For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes.

nsb@1Corinthians:11:27 @ Whoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

nsb@1Corinthians:11:28 @ Let a man examine himself before he eats of that bread, and drinks of that cup.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:2 @ You know that you were of the nations, carried away and led by mute idols.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:3 @ I want you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed. And no person can say, »Jesus is the Lord,« except by the Holy Spirit.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:5 @ There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:7 @ The manifestation of the Spirit is given to everyone for a beneficial purpose.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:8 @ For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

nsb@1Corinthians:12:9 @ To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the one Spirit;

nsb@1Corinthians:12:10 @ To another the workings of miracles and to another prophesy. To another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:12 @ For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many and are one body, so also is Christ.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:13 @ For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or people of the nations, whether we are bond or free; we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:15 @ If the foot should say: »Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body;« is it therefore not of the body?

nsb@1Corinthians:12:16 @ If the ear should say: »Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body;« is it therefore not of the body?

nsb@1Corinthians:12:18 @ Has God set the members of the body, every one of them, just as it pleased him?

nsb@1Corinthians:12:21 @ And the eye cannot say to the hand, »I have no need of you:« nor again the head to the feet, »I have no need of you.«

nsb@1Corinthians:12:22 @ Those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are necessary.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:23 @ And those members of the body that we think to be less honorable, we offer these more honors. Our less acceptable parts have more abundant acceptability.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:27 @ Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:28 @ God has appointed some in the congregation: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, abilities to direct, different tongues.

nsb@1Corinthians:12:29 @ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?

nsb@1Corinthians:12:30 @ Do all have the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

nsb@1Corinthians:13:1 @ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have love, I have become like loud sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.

nsb@1Corinthians:13:2 @ If I have the gift of prophesy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

nsb@1Corinthians:13:8 @ Love never fails. Where there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away.

nsb@1Corinthians:13:13 @ Faith, hope and love remain. These three! The greatest of these is love!

nsb@1Corinthians:14:6 @ Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

nsb@1Corinthians:14:10 @ There are many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

nsb@1Corinthians:14:11 @ Therefore if I do not know the meaning of what someone is saying I will be a foreigner to him that speaks. And he that speaks will be a foreigner to me too.

nsb@1Corinthians:14:12 @ As much as you are zealous for spiritual gifts, strive to build-up the enlightenment of the congregation.

nsb@1Corinthians:14:16 @ When you bless with the spirit, how will the audience of the unlearned say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not understand what you said?

nsb@1Corinthians:14:18 @ I thank God that I speak with tongues more then all of you.

nsb@1Corinthians:14:21 @ It is written in the law: »With men of other tongues and lips of foreigners I will speak to this people. Even then they will not listen to me,« said Jehovah.

nsb@1Corinthians:14:23 @ If therefore the whole congregation comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and the unlearned, or unbelievers, come there will they not say that you are out of your mind?

nsb@1Corinthians:14:25 @ The secrets of his heart are made known. So falling down on his face he will worship God, and report, »God is truly among you.«

nsb@1Corinthians:14:26 @ How is it then, brothers? When you come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, and has an interpretation. Let all things be done to clarify and offer understanding!

nsb@1Corinthians:14:32 @ Let the prophets control the spirits of the prophets.

nsb@1Corinthians:14:33 @ For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the congregations of the holy ones.

nsb@1Corinthians:14:36 @ Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached?

nsb@1Corinthians:14:37 @ If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:3 @ First of all, I delivered to you what I also received, how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:6 @ More than five hundred brothers saw him at the same time after that. Most of them remain to this day, but some have fallen asleep.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:8 @ And last of all I also saw him, as of one with an untimely birth.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:9 @ I am the least of the apostles and do not deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the people of God.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:10 @ By the divine influence of God I am what I am. His grace was not given to me in vain for I labored more than all of them. Yet it was not I. It was the divine influence and favor of God in me.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:12 @ If we preached that Christ was raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

nsb@1Corinthians:15:13 @ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not risen.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:15 @ We are found to be false witnesses of God because we have testified that God raised Christ from the dead. If he did not raise him up from the dead then the dead are not raised up.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:19 @ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:20 @ Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who slept.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:21 @ Death came because of what one man did. The resurrection of the dead also comes because of what one man did.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:23 @ Everyone will be raised to life in the right order: Christ the first fruits and afterward those who belong to Christ at the time of his coming.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:27 @ According to the Scriptures: God has placed all things under his control. (Ephesians strkjv@1:22) But when he said all things are placed under him, it is with the exception of. For is the one who placed all things under him. (1 Peter strkjv@3:22) (John strkjv@3:35)

nsb@1Corinthians:15:34 @ Wake up to righteousness and do not sin. Some do not have knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:37 @ That which you sow, you sow not that body that will develop, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other grain:

nsb@1Corinthians:15:39 @ All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:40 @ There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies. The glory of the celestial is one thing and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:41 @ There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars. For one star differs from another star in glory.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:42 @ So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:48 @ As is the earthy so are those who are of the earth. And as is the heavenly, so are those who are of heaven.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:49 @ And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:50 @ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Corruption may not inherit incorruption.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:52 @ In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last reverberation of the trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:56 @ The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

nsb@1Corinthians:15:58 @ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable. Always have plenty to do in the work of the Lord, for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

nsb@1Corinthians:16:1 @ Now concerning the collection for the holy ones, you should do the same as I told the congregations of Galatia.

nsb@1Corinthians:16:2 @ On one day of the week let every one of you set something aside, as God has prospered you, that there be no contributions collected when I come.

nsb@1Corinthians:16:10 @ Now if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear, for he works the work of God, as I also do.

nsb@1Corinthians:16:15 @ I exhort you, brothers, you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the holy ones.

nsb@1Corinthians:16:17 @ I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus. For they have supplied what was lacking on your part.

nsb@1Corinthians:16:19 @ The congregations of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you in the Lord, with the congregation that is in their house.

nsb@1Corinthians:16:23 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you.

nsb@2Corinthians:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the congregation of God at Corinth, with all the holy ones throughout Achaia:

nsb@2Corinthians:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.

nsb@2Corinthians:1:5 @ For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

nsb@2Corinthians:1:7 @ Our hope for you is steadfast; knowing that, as you are partakers of the sufferings, so you also partake of the comfort.

nsb@2Corinthians:1:8 @ We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that began in Asia. We were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

nsb@2Corinthians:1:9 @ Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

nsb@2Corinthians:1:10 @ God delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver us. We have set our hope on him. He will deliver us!

nsb@2Corinthians:1:12 @ This is our pride and testimony of conscience. In holiness and Godly sincerity we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. It was not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God.

nsb@2Corinthians:1:14 @ as also you did acknowledge us in part, that we are your reason to be proud, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

nsb@2Corinthians:1:19 @ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we, preached among you even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him is yes.

nsb@2Corinthians:1:20 @ All the promises of God in him are yes. Also in his is the Amen, to the glory of God through us.

nsb@2Corinthians:1:22 @ He also sealed us, and gave us the guarantee of the Spirit in our hearts.

nsb@2Corinthians:2:3 @ I wrote this very thing that when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice. I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

nsb@2Corinthians:2:4 @ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears. Not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly for you.

nsb@2Corinthians:2:10 @ Whoever you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ,

nsb@2Corinthians:2:11 @ that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

nsb@2Corinthians:2:12 @ Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

nsb@2Corinthians:2:14 @ Thanks to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ. He makes known through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

nsb@2Corinthians:2:15 @ For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God. We are an aroma for those who are saved and those who perish.

nsb@2Corinthians:2:16 @ To the one an aroma of death leading to death and to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

nsb@2Corinthians:2:17 @ For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God; but sincere and from God. We speak in Christ in the sight of God.

nsb@2Corinthians:3:1 @ Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you or from you?

nsb@2Corinthians:3:3 @ It is known that you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is not written on tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh that are of the heart.

nsb@2Corinthians:3:6 @ He also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant. This is a covenant not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

nsb@2Corinthians:3:7 @ The ministry of death was written and engraved on stones. Glory came with it so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly upon the face of Moses. And this glory was passing away.

nsb@2Corinthians:3:8 @ How shall the ministry of the Spirit not be with glory?

nsb@2Corinthians:3:9 @ For if the ministry of condemnation has glory then the ministry of righteousness would exceed in glory.

nsb@2Corinthians:3:10 @ Even what was glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the greater glory.

nsb@2Corinthians:3:12 @ Since we have such a hope we use great boldness of speech.

nsb@2Corinthians:3:13 @ We are not like Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look steadily on the end of that which was passing away:

nsb@2Corinthians:3:14 @ Their minds were blinded. Until this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It is not revealed to them that Christ voided it.

nsb@2Corinthians:3:17 @ Now God is the Spirit and where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty.

nsb@2Corinthians:3:18 @ We all, with unveiled face, behold as in a mirror the glory of God and are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, exactly as from God’s Spirit.

nsb@2Corinthians:4:2 @ We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

nsb@2Corinthians:4:4 @ The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

nsb@2Corinthians:4:6 @ God said: Light will shine out of darkness. He shined in our hearts. He gave the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face ( of Jesus Christ.

nsb@2Corinthians:4:10 @ We always carry in the body the death of Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.

nsb@2Corinthians:4:11 @ For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh.

nsb@2Corinthians:4:13 @ But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believe, and therefore I speak. We also believe, and therefore we also speak.

nsb@2Corinthians:4:15 @ All things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

nsb@2Corinthians:4:17 @ Our light affliction is for the moment. It works more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory for us.

nsb@2Corinthians:5:8 @ We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

nsb@2Corinthians:5:10 @ We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether it is good or bad.

nsb@2Corinthians:5:12 @ We are not again commending ourselves to you. But we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us. That way you may have an answer for those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

nsb@2Corinthians:5:13 @ For if we are beside ourselves it is to God. If we are of sound mind, it is to you.

nsb@2Corinthians:5:14 @ For the love of Christ compels us to judge, that one died for all and therefore all died.

nsb@2Corinthians:5:18 @ All things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ. He gave the ministry of reconciliation to us.

nsb@2Corinthians:5:19 @ God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ. He was not imputing their trespasses against them, for he had committed the word of reconciliation to us.

nsb@2Corinthians:5:20 @ We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ that you be reconciled to God.

nsb@2Corinthians:5:21 @ He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.

nsb@2Corinthians:6:1 @ Working together with him we plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

nsb@2Corinthians:6:2 @ For he said: At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation!

nsb@2Corinthians:6:4 @ In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

nsb@2Corinthians:6:7 @ in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

nsb@2Corinthians:6:16 @ And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? We are the temple of the living God. God said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Leviticus strkjv@26:12) (Zechariah strkjv@8:8)

nsb@2Corinthians:7:1 @ Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.

nsb@2Corinthians:7:2 @ Open your hearts to us. We wronged no person. We wronged and corrupted no one. We took advantage of no person.

nsb@2Corinthians:7:6 @ Nevertheless he who comforts the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

nsb@2Corinthians:7:10 @ For godly sorrow works repentance leading to salvation. This is a repentance that brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death.

nsb@2Corinthians:7:11 @ This very thing that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it made in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, yes what vindication! You demonstrated yourself to innocent in the matter.

nsb@2Corinthians:7:12 @ Although I wrote to you, I did not write for the sake of the one who did wrong, nor for the one who suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

nsb@2Corinthians:7:13 @ Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort. We enjoyed our comfort the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his mental disposition.

nsb@2Corinthians:7:16 @ I rejoice that in everything I am encouraged because of you.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:1 @ We make known to you brothers the grace of God that has been given to the congregations of Macedonia.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:2 @ Out of severe affliction they have an abundance of joy and their deep poverty abounds in the riches of their generosity.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:3 @ For according to their ability, I bear witness, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:5 @ This is not as we hoped. First they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:7 @ But as you have plenty of everything, in faith, and speech, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love for us, see that you have plenty of this undeserved kindness also.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:8 @ I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:9 @ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:11 @ But now complete the doing. There was the eager will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:13 @ I do not say this for the ease of others and for your affliction

nsb@2Corinthians:8:16 @ But thanks to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:17 @ For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth to you of his own accord.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:19 @ and not only so, but who was also appointed by the congregations to travel with us in the matter of this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and to show our readiness.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:20 @ Avoid this, that any man should blame us in the matter of this bounty that is ministered by us:

nsb@2Corinthians:8:21 @ for we think of honorable things, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of men.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:22 @ We send our brother with them, whom we have many times proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:23 @ Whether any inquire about Titus, he is my partner and my fellow-worker to you or our brothers, they are the messengers of the congregations, and they are the glory of Christ.

nsb@2Corinthians:8:24 @ Show to them as representatives of the congregations the quality of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

nsb@2Corinthians:9:2 @ I know you are ready and I boast about to the Macedonians. That Achaia has been prepared since last year. Your zeal stirred up many of them.

nsb@2Corinthians:9:4 @ Lest by any means, if any from Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to speak of you, should be put to shame in this respect.

nsb@2Corinthians:9:7 @ Let each man do according as he has purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

nsb@2Corinthians:9:8 @ God is able to make all grace abound toward you. You have plenty of everything you need and should abound in every good work.

nsb@2Corinthians:9:10 @ The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.

nsb@2Corinthians:9:12 @ This service not only takes care of the needs of the holy ones, but also abounds with many expressions of thanksgiving to God.

nsb@2Corinthians:9:13 @ The proof of this ministry is that they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the good news of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men.

nsb@2Corinthians:9:14 @ They pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

nsb@2Corinthians:10:1 @ Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you.

nsb@2Corinthians:10:4 @ The weapons we use in our fight are not of the flesh but God's powerful weapons, which we use to destroy strongholds. We destroy false arguments.

nsb@2Corinthians:10:5 @ We cast down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. We bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

nsb@2Corinthians:10:10 @ For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong. But his bodily presence is weak and his speech of no account.

nsb@2Corinthians:10:12 @ For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves. But they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves. They are without understanding.

nsb@2Corinthians:10:13 @ But we will not boast beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province that God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even to you.

nsb@2Corinthians:10:14 @ For we are not overstretching ourselves though we did not reach to you. We reached out to you with the good news of Christ.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:7 @ Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the good news of God without charge?

nsb@2Corinthians:11:9 @ When I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man. For the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will continue to do the same.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:10 @ As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me from doing this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:12 @ But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that in whatever matter they boast, they may be found equal with me.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:13 @ For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:14 @ And no wonder for even Satan fashions himself into an angel of light.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:15 @ It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:17 @ That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:20 @ You suffer, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes advantage of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man strikes you on the face.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:22 @ Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I!

nsb@2Corinthians:11:23 @ Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:24 @ Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:26 @ In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brothers;

nsb@2Corinthians:11:27 @ In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:28 @ Beside those things that are from the outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the congregations.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:29 @ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation?

nsb@2Corinthians:11:31 @ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed forever knows I do not lie.

nsb@2Corinthians:11:32 @ The governor under King Aretas put guards around the city of Damascus to catch me.

nsb@2Corinthians:12:6 @ If I ever wanted to brag, I would not be a fool. Instead, I would be telling the truth. But I am going to spare you so that no one may think more of me than what he sees or hears about me.

nsb@2Corinthians:12:7 @ I was given a painful physical ailment that will keep me from being puffed up with pride because of the many wonderful things I saw. It acts as Satan's messenger to beat me and keep me from being proud.

nsb@2Corinthians:12:9 @ He told me: »My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness.« Most gladly therefore, I would rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (Isaiah strkjv@40:29-31)

nsb@2Corinthians:12:12 @ Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

nsb@2Corinthians:12:17 @ Did I gain you by any of them whom I sent to you?

nsb@2Corinthians:12:21 @ I am afraid that the next time I come my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I shall weep over many who sinned in the past and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication and loose conduct that they have practiced.

nsb@2Corinthians:13:1 @ This is now the third time that I am coming to visit you. The testimony of two or three witnesses must uphold an accusation. (Deuteronomy strkjv@19:15)

nsb@2Corinthians:13:3 @ Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you but is mighty in you.

nsb@2Corinthians:13:4 @ Though he was impaled through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. We are weak through him also, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

nsb@2Corinthians:13:11 @ Finally brothers, farewell: Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

nsb@2Corinthians:13:14 @ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the intimate sharing of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

nsb@Galatians:1:2 @ And from the brothers who are with me, to the congregations of Galatia:

nsb@Galatians:1:4 @ He gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us out of this present evil age. This is according to the will of our God and Father.

nsb@Galatians:1:6 @ I am amazed that you so quickly turned away from the One who called you by the grace of Christ. You turned to different good news.

nsb@Galatians:1:7 @ Yet this is not another good news. But there are some who trouble you, and they would pervert the good news of Christ.

nsb@Galatians:1:10 @ Do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Am I striving to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

nsb@Galatians:1:13 @ You heard about the way I lived as a Jew. How I persecuted the congregation of God beyond measure. In fact I tried to destroy it!

nsb@Galatians:1:14 @ I advanced as a Jew beyond many of my own age among my countrymen. I was more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

nsb@Galatians:1:19 @ But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.

nsb@Galatians:1:21 @ Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

nsb@Galatians:1:22 @ I was still unknown by face to the congregations of Judea that are in Christ.

nsb@Galatians:1:24 @ They glorified God because of me.

nsb@Galatians:2:2 @ I went in response to a revelation. I demonstrated to them the way I spread the good news among the people of the nations. I did this privately before them for they have a reputation. I am concerned that by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.

nsb@Galatians:2:4 @ This occurred because of the false brothers brought in secretly. They came to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus. This was so they might bring us into bondage.

nsb@Galatians:2:5 @ We did not yield to them for a moment or an hour! That way the truth of the good news might continue with you.

nsb@Galatians:2:6 @ Those who were recognized as important people did not add a single thing to my message. What sort of people they were makes no difference to me. God does not play favorites.

nsb@Galatians:2:8 @ The one who made Peter an apostle to the Jewish people also made me an apostle to the people of the nations.

nsb@Galatians:2:9 @ When they saw the grace that was given to me, James, Cephas and John, they who were known to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship. We were to go to the nations and they were to go to the people who are circumcised.

nsb@Galatians:2:12 @ He ate with the people of the nations until some men James sent arrived. When they arrived, he drew back and separated himself. He feared those who were of the circumcised people.

nsb@Galatians:2:13 @ The rest of the Jews were hypocrites with him, so much that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.

nsb@Galatians:2:14 @ I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the good news. Therefore I said to Cephas, in front of them all: »If you, being a Jew, live as the nations do and not as the Jews, why do you compel the people of the nations to live like the Jews?«

nsb@Galatians:2:16 @ Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. The works of the law justify no one.

nsb@Galatians:2:17 @ We sought to be righteous in Christ. And we were found to be sinners. Is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

nsb@Galatians:2:20 @ I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.

nsb@Galatians:2:21 @ I do not reject the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

nsb@Galatians:3:2 @ I want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law, or by having faith in what you heard?

nsb@Galatians:3:5 @ He that provides the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

nsb@Galatians:3:7 @ You know that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.

nsb@Galatians:3:8 @ The Scripture revealed ahead of time, that God justified the people of the nations by faith. He preached the good news beforehand to Abraham. He said: »In you will all the nations be blessed.«

nsb@Galatians:3:10 @ Those who are of the works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, »Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, by obeying them.«

nsb@Galatians:3:13 @ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written; »Cursed is everyone who is hung on a stake.«

nsb@Galatians:3:14 @ This way the blessing of Abraham might come upon the nations through Christ Jesus and we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

nsb@Galatians:3:16 @ The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He did not say to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your seed, which is Christ.

nsb@Galatians:3:18 @ If the inheritance is based on the Law, it is no longer based on a promise. However God granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.

nsb@Galatians:3:19 @ What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

nsb@Galatians:3:20 @ A mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one.

nsb@Galatians:3:21 @ Is the Law then against the promises of God? God forbid! If a law had been given which could impart life, righteousness would have been from the Law.

nsb@Galatians:3:26 @ You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

nsb@Galatians:3:27 @ For as many of you who were baptized into Christ put on Christ.

nsb@Galatians:4:1 @ But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he does not differ from a bondservant, though he is owner of the estate.

nsb@Galatians:4:3 @ When we were children, we too were held in bondage. We were slaves to the arrangement of this world.

nsb@Galatians:4:4 @ When the full time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

nsb@Galatians:4:6 @ Because you are sons, God sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

nsb@Galatians:4:13 @ You know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the good news to you the first time.

nsb@Galatians:4:14 @ That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you did not despise or reject. You received me like an angel of God, even like Christ Jesus.

nsb@Galatians:4:19 @ My little children, of whom I am again in labor pains until Christ is formed in you

nsb@Galatians:4:27 @ It is written, »Rejoice, barren woman who does not give birth. Break forth and cry, you who do not labor; for there are more children of the desolate than of the one who has the husband.«

nsb@Galatians:4:30 @ What do the scriptures say? »Throw out the slave woman and her son. For the son of the slave woman must not share the inheritance with the son of the free woman.« (Genesis strkjv@21:10)

nsb@Galatians:4:31 @ Brothers, we are not children of a slave woman but of the free woman.

nsb@Galatians:5:1 @ Christ liberated us for freedom. Stand fast therefore, and do not become entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

nsb@Galatians:5:2 @ Behold, I Paul say to you, that, if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

nsb@Galatians:5:5 @ For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

nsb@Galatians:5:11 @ But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then has the stumbling block of the stake been done away?

nsb@Galatians:5:16 @ I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

nsb@Galatians:5:19 @ Now the works of the flesh are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,

nsb@Galatians:5:21 @ envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.

nsb@Galatians:5:22 @ The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

nsb@Galatians:6:1 @ Brothers, if someone is caught in any kind of wrongdoing, those of you who are spiritual should set him right. But you must do it in a gentle way. And keep an eye on yourselves, so that you will not be tempted, too.

nsb@Galatians:6:2 @ Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.

nsb@Galatians:6:3 @ So if any one of you thinks you are important when you really are not, you are only fooling yourself.

nsb@Galatians:6:4 @ Each of you must examine your own actions. Then you can be proud of your own accomplishments without comparing yourself to others.

nsb@Galatians:6:8 @ He that sows to his own flesh will harvest corruption of the flesh. But he that sows to the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.

nsb@Galatians:6:9 @ Let us not grow tired of doing good things for in due season we shall harvest, if we do not faint.

nsb@Galatians:6:10 @ So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

nsb@Galatians:6:12 @ Those who desire to make a showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised. This is done so they may not be persecuted for the stake of Christ.

nsb@Galatians:6:14 @ Never should I boast except in the stake of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is through this stake that the world has been impaled to me, and I to the world.

nsb@Galatians:6:16 @ The Israel of God will have peace and mercy. All who walk by this rule will also.

nsb@Galatians:6:17 @ Let no one trouble me. I bear the marks of Jesus branded on my body.

nsb@Galatians:6:18 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

nsb@Ephesians:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the holy ones who are at Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

nsb@Ephesians:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places through Christ.

nsb@Ephesians:1:4 @ He chose us through him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love.

nsb@Ephesians:1:5 @ He predetermined us to adoption, as sons to himself through Jesus Christ, according to the kind intention of his will.

nsb@Ephesians:1:6 @ This is to the praise of the glory of his kindness, with which he freely honored us, the loved ones.

nsb@Ephesians:1:7 @ In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

nsb@Ephesians:1:9 @ He made known to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure and purpose.

nsb@Ephesians:1:12 @ We who were first to hope in Christ should serve to the praise of his glory.

nsb@Ephesians:1:13 @ You have heard the word of the truth in Christ. It is the good news about your salvation. You also believed and were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

nsb@Ephesians:1:14 @ The Holy Spirit is a guarantee that we will receive our inheritance. This assures us that God will set us free to the praise of his glory.

nsb@Ephesians:1:15 @ For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus that is among you, and the love you show all the holy ones.

nsb@Ephesians:1:17 @ May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.

nsb@Ephesians:1:18 @ Have the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know the hope of his calling, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the holy ones,

nsb@Ephesians:1:19 @ and what the exceeding greatness of his power is toward us who believe, according to the operation of his mighty strength.

nsb@Ephesians:1:23 @ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

nsb@Ephesians:2:1 @ You were once dead because of your trespasses and sins.

nsb@Ephesians:2:2 @ You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in the sons of disobedience.

nsb@Ephesians:2:3 @ We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

nsb@Ephesians:2:4 @ But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

nsb@Ephesians:2:7 @ So in the ages to come he, with Christ Jesus, might show the exceeding riches of his grace with kindness toward us.

nsb@Ephesians:2:9 @ It is not the result of works. So no man should boast.

nsb@Ephesians:2:11 @ Remember that you were once people of the nations in the flesh. You are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision, in the flesh, made by human hands.

nsb@Ephesians:2:12 @ You were separate from Christ at that time, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. You were strangers from the covenants of the promise. You had no hope and were without God in the world.

nsb@Ephesians:2:13 @ You were once far off but now with Christ Jesus, the blood of Christ has brought you near.

nsb@Ephesians:2:14 @ For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle barrier of partition.

nsb@Ephesians:2:15 @ Christ abolished in his flesh the enmity, which the law of commandments contained in ordinances. That he might create one new man, out of the two, with himself establishing peace.

nsb@Ephesians:2:17 @ He came and preached peace to you who were far off, and peace to those who were near.

nsb@Ephesians:2:19 @ So then you are no longer strangers and aliens. You are fellow citizens with the holy ones and of the household of God.

nsb@Ephesians:2:20 @ You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus is the chief corner stone.

nsb@Ephesians:3:1 @ For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you people of the nations.

nsb@Ephesians:3:2 @ You have heard of the stewardship of God’s loving kindness that was given to me with you in view.

nsb@Ephesians:3:4 @ When you read this you can understand my insight into the secret of Christ.

nsb@Ephesians:3:5 @ It was not made known to other generations of the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.

nsb@Ephesians:3:6 @ The Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the good news.

nsb@Ephesians:3:7 @ I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace that was given me according to the working of his power.

nsb@Ephesians:3:8 @ To me, the very least of all the holy ones, was given grace to preach to the people of the nations the untraceable riches of Christ.

nsb@Ephesians:3:9 @ To make all men see what is the administration of the secret which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things.

nsb@Ephesians:3:10 @ It is the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known through the congregation and the rules and authorities in the heavenly places.

nsb@Ephesians:3:16 @ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man.

nsb@Ephesians:3:19 @ And may you know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. May you be filled with all the fullness of God.

nsb@Ephesians:4:1 @ I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, invite you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called.

nsb@Ephesians:4:3 @ Diligently try to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

nsb@Ephesians:4:4 @ There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling.

nsb@Ephesians:4:6 @ There is one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

nsb@Ephesians:4:7 @ But unto each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

nsb@Ephesians:4:9 @ (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

nsb@Ephesians:4:12 @ This is for the perfecting of the holy ones, for the work of ministering, for the building up of the body of Christ:

nsb@Ephesians:4:13 @ until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

nsb@Ephesians:4:14 @ We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error.

nsb@Ephesians:4:16 @ The entire body is properly framed and fitted together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in due measure of each individual part. It makes the body increase by building itself in love.

nsb@Ephesians:4:17 @ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity of their mind.

nsb@Ephesians:4:18 @ They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

nsb@Ephesians:4:22 @ You put away your former way of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit.

nsb@Ephesians:4:23 @ You are renewed in the spirit of your mind.

nsb@Ephesians:4:24 @ Put on the new man, that in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

nsb@Ephesians:4:25 @ Put away falsehood. Speak truth each one of you with his neighbor: for we are members of one another.

nsb@Ephesians:4:29 @ Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth. Speak what is good for understanding as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

nsb@Ephesians:4:30 @ Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which you were sealed to the day of release by ransom.

nsb@Ephesians:5:2 @ Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us. He was an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling odor.

nsb@Ephesians:5:4 @ Nor should there be filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting but rather giving of thanks.

nsb@Ephesians:5:5 @ For you know this with certainty, that no fornicator, no unclean person, no covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

nsb@Ephesians:5:6 @ Let no one deceive you with empty words. It is because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

nsb@Ephesians:5:8 @ You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

nsb@Ephesians:5:9 @ for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness and righteousness and truth.

nsb@Ephesians:5:11 @ Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead reprove them.

nsb@Ephesians:5:16 @ Make the most of your time, because the days are evil.

nsb@Ephesians:5:17 @ Do not be foolish, but understand what the will of Jehovah is.

nsb@Ephesians:5:18 @ Do not get drunk with wine, for that is a public act of violence, but be filled with the Spirit.

nsb@Ephesians:5:20 @ Always give thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father.

nsb@Ephesians:5:21 @ Be subject to one another in reverence of Christ.

nsb@Ephesians:5:23 @ For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the congregation, he being the savior of the body.

nsb@Ephesians:5:26 @ This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.

nsb@Ephesians:5:30 @ And we are members of his body!

nsb@Ephesians:5:32 @ This secret is great! I speak with regard to Christ and of the congregation.

nsb@Ephesians:5:33 @ Each one of you should love his own wife even as himself. The wife should respect her husband.

nsb@Ephesians:6:4 @ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

nsb@Ephesians:6:5 @ Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

nsb@Ephesians:6:6 @ This should not be in the way of eye service, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from a complete heart;

nsb@Ephesians:6:11 @ Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the cunning methods of the devil.

nsb@Ephesians:6:12 @ Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.

nsb@Ephesians:6:13 @ For that reason, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, having done everything, to stand firm.

nsb@Ephesians:6:14 @ Stand firm therefore and gird your loins with truth. Put on the breastplate of righteousness.

nsb@Ephesians:6:15 @ Shod your feet with the preparation of the good news of peace.

nsb@Ephesians:6:16 @ Also take up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

nsb@Ephesians:6:17 @ Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

nsb@Ephesians:6:19 @ Pray on my behalf, that ability to speak may be given to me, to make known with boldness the secret of the good news.

nsb@Philippians:1:1 @ Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the holy ones in union with Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and ministerial servants:

nsb@Philippians:1:3 @ I thank my God for all my memories of you.

nsb@Philippians:1:4 @ I always offer prayer filled with joy for you,

nsb@Philippians:1:5 @ and for your fellowship in participation of the good news from the first day until now.

nsb@Philippians:1:6 @ I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.

nsb@Philippians:1:7 @ It is right for me to feel this way on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart. Both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the good news you are all partakers with me of grace.

nsb@Philippians:1:8 @ God is my witness, how I long for you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

nsb@Philippians:1:10 @ This way you may approve the things that are excellent. May you be sincere and without offense to others till the day of Christ.

nsb@Philippians:1:11 @ Be filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. (John strkjv@15:5) (Galatians strkjv@5:22-23)

nsb@Philippians:1:12 @ I would have you know, brothers that the things that happened to me turned out for the greater progress of the good news.

nsb@Philippians:1:14 @ Most of the brothers trust in the Lord and boldly speak the word of God without fear because of my bonds.

nsb@Philippians:1:16 @ The latter ones do it out of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the good news.

nsb@Philippians:1:17 @ But the others proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition without pure motives, thinking to cause me great suffering and distress in my imprisonment.

nsb@Philippians:1:19 @ For I know that this will turn out to my redemption through your prayer and the provision of the spirit of Jesus Christ.

nsb@Philippians:1:27 @ Let your manner of life be worthy of the good news about Christ. Whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your conduct, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the good news.

nsb@Philippians:1:28 @ Do not be frightened by opponents. This is evidence of destruction for them and salvation for you from God.

nsb@Philippians:1:29 @ It has been granted to you in behalf of Christ. Not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf.

nsb@Philippians:2:1 @ If there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender affection and compassions,

nsb@Philippians:2:2 @ make my joy full by being of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, and of one purpose.

nsb@Philippians:2:4 @ Look out for the interest of others and not only for your own personal interest.

nsb@Philippians:2:6 @ He existed in the form of God but did not try to be equal with God. He did not even consider it!

nsb@Philippians:2:7 @ He emptied himself by taking the form of a servant. He was made in the likeness of men.

nsb@Philippians:2:10 @ that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth,

nsb@Philippians:2:11 @ and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

nsb@Philippians:2:15 @ That way you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. You are seen as lights in the world.

nsb@Philippians:2:16 @ Hold fast to the word of life so I may rejoice in the day of Christ. That way I will not have labored in vain.

nsb@Philippians:2:17 @ If I am offered for the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice with you all.

nsb@Philippians:2:21 @ They all seek their own interest and not the things of Jesus Christ.

nsb@Philippians:2:22 @ But you know of his proven worth. It was like a son with his father that he served with me to further the good news.

nsb@Philippians:2:30 @ because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

nsb@Philippians:3:2 @ Beware of the dogs! Beware of the evil workers! Beware of the mutilation of the body.

nsb@Philippians:3:3 @ We are those with true circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God. We glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

nsb@Philippians:3:5 @ I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

nsb@Philippians:3:7 @ Things that offered gain to me I count a loss for Christ.

nsb@Philippians:3:8 @ I count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. I suffered the loss of all things. Yet I count them as refuse that I may gain Christ.

nsb@Philippians:3:9 @ I want to be united with him. I no longer want a righteousness of my own that is gained by obeying the law. The righteousness from God is by faith in Christ.

nsb@Philippians:3:10 @ I want to know him and the power of his resurrection. I want to know the fellowship of his sufferings and become conformed to his death.

nsb@Philippians:3:14 @ I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

nsb@Philippians:3:15 @ Let those of us who are mature have this attitude. If you have a different attitude God will show you how to think.

nsb@Philippians:3:17 @ Brothers, be imitators of me. Pay attention to those who live by the example we have given you.

nsb@Philippians:3:18 @ Many live as enemies of the stake of Christ. I often wept as I told you about them.

nsb@Philippians:4:3 @ Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the good news, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

nsb@Philippians:4:7 @ The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

nsb@Philippians:4:8 @ Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

nsb@Philippians:4:9 @ The things that you have learned, received, heard and saw in me; do these things and the God of peace will be with you.

nsb@Philippians:4:15 @ You also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news, when I departed from Macedonia, no other congregation shared their money with me. Only you shared with me.

nsb@Philippians:4:18 @ I have all things, and prosper: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you. It is an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

nsb@Philippians:4:19 @ My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

nsb@Philippians:4:22 @ All the holy ones greet you, especially they who are of Caesar's household.

nsb@Philippians:4:23 @ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

nsb@Colossians:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

nsb@Colossians:1:3 @ We always pray for you, and thank God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for you.

nsb@Colossians:1:4 @ We have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have for all the holy ones.

nsb@Colossians:1:5 @ This is because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You heard about this hope from the word of truth, the good news.

nsb@Colossians:1:6 @ It came to you even as it did. Everywhere in the entire world it bears fruit and it increases in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth.

nsb@Colossians:1:7 @ You learned about Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf.

nsb@Colossians:1:9 @ Since the day we heard about you, we have not ceased to pray and make request for you. We pray for you to be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. (Philippians strkjv@1:9) (John strkjv@17:3)

nsb@Colossians:1:10 @ Walk worthily of God, fully pleasing him. Bear fruit in every good work, and increase in the knowledge of God.

nsb@Colossians:1:11 @ God will strengthen you with all power, according to the might of his glory, to all patience and longsuffering with joy.

nsb@Colossians:1:12 @ Give thanks to the Father, who made us partakers of the inheritance of the holy ones in the light.

nsb@Colossians:1:13 @ He rescued us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love.

nsb@Colossians:1:14 @ We have in him our redemption and the forgiveness of our sins.

nsb@Colossians:1:15 @ He is the image of the invisible God. He is the firstborn of all creation.

nsb@Colossians:1:18 @ He is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

nsb@Colossians:1:19 @ It was the good pleasure of the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell.

nsb@Colossians:1:20 @ And all things are reconciled through him. He made peace through the blood of his atonement. He reconciles all things, whether things upon the earth, or things in heaven.

nsb@Colossians:1:22 @ But he reconciled you in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and without accusation before Him.

nsb@Colossians:1:23 @ Provided that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good news you heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven. For this I,Paul, was made a minister.

nsb@Colossians:1:24 @ I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. I do my share in behalf of his body, the congregation, to provide what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ.

nsb@Colossians:1:25 @ God gave me this stewardship to perform for your good. He has made me a servant of the congregation. It is for the task of fully proclaiming the word of God.

nsb@Colossians:1:27 @ It was God’s will to make known his secret to the people of the nations, this rich and glorious secret that he has for people. The secret is that Christ is in union with you, which means that you will share in his glory.

nsb@Colossians:2:3 @ In him is concealed all the hidden treasures of God’s wisdom and knowledge.

nsb@Colossians:2:8 @ See to it that no one enslaves you by means of philosophy and worthless deceit of human wisdom according to tradition of men. It is according to the elementary principles of the world, and not from Christ.

nsb@Colossians:2:9 @ The fullness of divine nature lives in Christ’s bodily form.

nsb@Colossians:2:11 @ You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.

nsb@Colossians:2:12 @ You have been buried with him in baptism. You were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

nsb@Colossians:2:13 @ You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

nsb@Colossians:2:14 @ He blotted out the bond written in ordinances. It was against us and was contrary to us. He has taken it out of the way. He nailed it to the stake.

nsb@Colossians:2:15 @ He disarmed the rulers and authorities! He made a public display of them triumphing over them.

nsb@Colossians:2:16 @ Let no man judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

nsb@Colossians:2:17 @ They are a shadow of the things to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

nsb@Colossians:2:18 @ Let no man rob you of your prize by a self-abasement and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things that he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

nsb@Colossians:2:20 @ If you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances:

nsb@Colossians:2:22 @ These are the precepts and doctrines of men.

nsb@Colossians:2:23 @ These have, indeed, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body. But these are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

nsb@Colossians:3:1 @ If you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

nsb@Colossians:3:6 @ Because of such things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

nsb@Colossians:3:8 @ Now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech out of your mouth.

nsb@Colossians:3:9 @ Do not lie to one another, seeing that you got rid of the old self with its evil practices.

nsb@Colossians:3:10 @ You put on the new self that is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the one who created him.

nsb@Colossians:3:12 @ As God’s chosen, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and long-suffering.

nsb@Colossians:3:14 @ Above all these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfection and unity.

nsb@Colossians:3:15 @ Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. You were called in one body for this purpose. You be thankful.

nsb@Colossians:3:16 @ Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.

nsb@Colossians:3:17 @ Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Give thanks to God the Father through him.

nsb@Colossians:3:22 @ Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, respecting God.

nsb@Colossians:3:24 @ You know that God will give you the reward of the inheritance when you serve the Master, Christ.

nsb@Colossians:3:25 @ For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong that he has done. There is no partiality.

nsb@Colossians:4:3 @ Pray also for us that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned.

nsb@Colossians:4:5 @ Behave with wisdom toward those who are outside, making the most of the time.

nsb@Colossians:4:9 @ He will be with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things that are done here.

nsb@Colossians:4:10 @ Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas,

nsb@Colossians:4:11 @ and Jesus that is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only are my fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, men that have been comfort to me.

nsb@Colossians:4:12 @ Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

nsb@Colossians:4:16 @ When this letter has been read among you, make sure it is read also in the congregation of the Laodiceans; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

nsb@1Thessalonians:1:1 @ Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians united with God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

nsb@1Thessalonians:1:2 @ We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers.

nsb@1Thessalonians:1:3 @ We continually remember your work of faith, labor of love, and patience, and your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

nsb@1Thessalonians:1:4 @ We know your calling brothers, beloved of God.

nsb@1Thessalonians:1:5 @ We preached the good news to you, not in words only but with power from Holy Spirit and with conviction of its truth. You know how we lived when we were with you. It was for your own good.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:2 @ After we suffered and were mistreated in Philippi, we had the boldness in our God to speak the good news of God to you amid much opposition.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:3 @ For our presentation is not based on error, or of uncleanness, or in deceit.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:6 @ We did not try to get praise from anyone, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we could have made demands on you.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:7 @ But we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother taking care of her children.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:8 @ Having much affection for you, we were well pleased to impart the good news of God to you and also to share our lives with you. You have become very dear to us.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:9 @ You may remember, brothers, our labor and hardship. We worked day and night that we would not burden any of you when we preached the good news of God to you.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:11 @ You know how we dealt with each one of you. It was like a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging and showing you.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:12 @ You should walk worthily of God, who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:13 @ For this purpose we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, you accepted it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:14 @ You brothers became imitators of the congregations of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus. You also suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:16 @ They hindered us from speaking to the nations so that they may be saved. The result was that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

nsb@1Thessalonians:2:19 @ Who is our hope, or joy, or crown of exultation? Is it not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

nsb@1Thessalonians:3:2 @ So we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the good news of Christ. He came to strengthen and encourage you concerning your faith.

nsb@1Thessalonians:3:6 @ Timothy came from you to us, and brought us good news about your faith and love. We want you to have good memories of us always, and that you desire to see us just as we also desire to see you.

nsb@1Thessalonians:3:13 @ May he resolutely strengthen your hearts without blame in holiness before God, our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.

nsb@1Thessalonians:4:3 @ This is the will of God, for your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication.

nsb@1Thessalonians:4:4 @ Every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor,

nsb@1Thessalonians:4:5 @ not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.

nsb@1Thessalonians:4:6 @ Let no man defraud his brother in any matter. Jehovah is the avenger of this. We also have warned you and testified.

nsb@1Thessalonians:4:12 @ That way you may walk honestly in the eyes of those on the outside and lack nothing.

nsb@1Thessalonians:4:15 @ We tell you this by God’s Word, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.

nsb@1Thessalonians:4:16 @ For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first.

nsb@1Thessalonians:5:2 @ For you know perfectly that the »Day of Jehovah« will come like a thief in the night. (Zephaniah strkjv@1:14)

nsb@1Thessalonians:5:5 @ You are all the children of light, and the children of the day. We are not of the night, not of darkness.

nsb@1Thessalonians:5:8 @ Let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love; and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

nsb@1Thessalonians:5:13 @ To esteem them very highly in love because of the work they do. And be at peace among yourselves.

nsb@1Thessalonians:5:18 @ In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

nsb@1Thessalonians:5:22 @ Abstain from all appearance of evil.

nsb@1Thessalonians:5:23 @ May the very God of peace completely sanctify you. I pray to God that your entire spiritual being, your mind and body, is preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nsb@1Thessalonians:5:28 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

nsb@2Thessalonians:1:1 @ Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the people of the congregation in Thessalonica, who belong to God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

nsb@2Thessalonians:1:3 @ Our friends, we should thank God at all times for you. It is right for us to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love each of you has for the other abounds toward each other.

nsb@2Thessalonians:1:4 @ That is why we boast about you in the congregations of God. We boast about the way you continue to endure and believe through all the persecutions and sufferings you experience.

nsb@2Thessalonians:1:5 @ All of this proves that God’s judgment is just, and as a result, you will become worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering.

nsb@2Thessalonians:1:7 @ You who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire.

nsb@2Thessalonians:1:8 @ They will render vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

nsb@2Thessalonians:1:9 @ They will suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the Lord and from the glory of his might.

nsb@2Thessalonians:1:11 @ We pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and every work of faith with power.

nsb@2Thessalonians:1:12 @ May the name of our Lord Jesus be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nsb@2Thessalonians:2:1 @ Now we ask you, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him,

nsb@2Thessalonians:2:2 @ do not get upset right away or alarmed when someone claims that we said through some spirit, conversation, or letter that the »Day of Jehovah« has already come. (Isaiah strkjv@13:6) (Zephaniah strkjv@1:14) (2 Peter strkjv@3:10)

nsb@2Thessalonians:2:3 @ Do not let anyone deceive you about this in any way. That day will not come unless apostasy takes place first, and the man of lawlessness, the man of destruction, is revealed. (2 Timothy strkjv@4:3)

nsb@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 like God. (Ezekiel strkjv@28:2)

nsb@2Thessalonians:2:7 @ The secret of evil is even now at work. But there is one who restrains the evil till he is taken out of the way.

nsb@2Thessalonians:2:8 @ Then the evil one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will put him to death with the breath of his mouth, and destroy him by the manifestation of his coming.

nsb@2Thessalonians:2:9 @ The evil one will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false signs and wonders.

nsb@2Thessalonians:2:10 @ He will use every kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved.

nsb@2Thessalonians:2:11 @ So God dispatches the power of deceit to work in them so that they are allowed to believe what is false.

nsb@2Thessalonians:2:14 @ It was for this he called you through our good news. This is so you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nsb@2Thessalonians:2:15 @ So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the precepts you were taught by word of mouth or by letter from us.

nsb@2Thessalonians:3:1 @ Finally, brothers, pray for us that the word of God will spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it did also with you.

nsb@2Thessalonians:3:5 @ May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.

nsb@2Thessalonians:3:6 @ Our friends, we command you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to keep away from all believers who walk disorderly and who do not follow the instructions that we gave them.

nsb@2Thessalonians:3:8 @ We did not eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, we worked hard and struggled night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.

nsb@2Thessalonians:3:12 @ In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command and warn them to lead orderly lives and work to earn their own living.

nsb@2Thessalonians:3:13 @ Brothers, do not grow weary of doing good.

nsb@2Thessalonians:3:14 @ If anyone does not obey our word in this letter, take special note of that person and do not associate with him, so that he will be put to shame.

nsb@2Thessalonians:3:16 @ Now may the Lord of peace always grant you peace in every circumstance. The Lord be with you all!

nsb@2Thessalonians:3:18 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

nsb@1Timothy:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope,

nsb@1Timothy:1:4 @ They should not pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These myths and genealogies stimulate questions and speculation. They do not enhance the administration of God that is by faith.

nsb@1Timothy:1:5 @ But the objective is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith without hypocrisy.

nsb@1Timothy:1:7 @ They want to be teachers of the Law even though they do not know what they are talking about. They do not understand what they say or what they confidently affirm.

nsb@1Timothy:1:9 @ Knowing this, that Law is not made for a righteous person. It is for the lawless and unruly, the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, and for manslayers.

nsb@1Timothy:1:10 @ It is for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and everything else that is contrary to the sound teaching.

nsb@1Timothy:1:11 @ Sound teaching is according to the good news of the glory of the blessed God. This was committed to my trust.

nsb@1Timothy:1:14 @ The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love in Christ Jesus.

nsb@1Timothy:1:15 @ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost.

nsb@1Timothy:2:1 @ I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,

nsb@1Timothy:2:3 @ This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.

nsb@1Timothy:2:4 @ It is God’s desire that all men have salvation and come to the full knowledge of the truth.

nsb@1Timothy:2:7 @ Because of this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle. What I say is true, not false, and I am a teacher of the nations in the true faith.

nsb@1Timothy:2:9 @ Likewise I want women to be adorned in modest clothing, with modesty and soundness of mind; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly clothes;

nsb@1Timothy:2:10 @ but that which becomes a woman professing godliness through good works.

nsb@1Timothy:3:1 @ Faithful is the saying: If a man seeks the office of overseer, he desires a good work.

nsb@1Timothy:3:2 @ The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach;

nsb@1Timothy:3:3 @ not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

nsb@1Timothy:3:5 @ if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the congregation of God?

nsb@1Timothy:3:6 @ He should not be a new believer, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the Devil.

nsb@1Timothy:3:7 @ He must have a good reputation with those outside the congregation, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

nsb@1Timothy:3:8 @ Ministerial servants should likewise be men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain.

nsb@1Timothy:3:9 @ They should maintain the secret of the faith with a clear conscience.

nsb@1Timothy:3:12 @ Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

nsb@1Timothy:3:15 @ though if I am delayed, so that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the household of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

nsb@1Timothy:3:16 @ The secret of godliness is great and it is without controversy. ‘He was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, and seen by angels. He preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, and received up in glory.’

nsb@1Timothy:4:1 @ The Spirit explicitly says that some will fall away from the faith in later times. Spirits and doctrines of demons will seduce them,

nsb@1Timothy:4:2 @ through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron.

nsb@1Timothy:4:4 @ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

nsb@1Timothy:4:5 @ This is because it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

nsb@1Timothy:4:6 @ If you tell the brothers about these things, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed until now.

nsb@1Timothy:4:8 @ Bodily exercise is profitable for a little. However, godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of the life that is to come.

nsb@1Timothy:4:9 @ Faithful and worthy of full acceptance is the statement.

nsb@1Timothy:4:10 @ This is why we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

nsb@1Timothy:4:14 @ Do not neglect the spiritual gift in you. It was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

nsb@1Timothy:5:4 @ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

nsb@1Timothy:5:9 @ Let a widow be put on the list if she is under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

nsb@1Timothy:5:10 @ having a good reputation for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the holy ones, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

nsb@1Timothy:5:17 @ Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

nsb@1Timothy:5:18 @ For the scripture said: »You must not muzzle the bull while he is threshing. The workman is worthy of his wages.«

nsb@1Timothy:5:19 @ Do not offer an accusation against an elder, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.

nsb@1Timothy:5:20 @ Reprove the sinner in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

nsb@1Timothy:5:21 @ I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

nsb@1Timothy:5:22 @ Do not lay your hands hastily on any man, neither be a partaker of other men's sins: keep yourself pure.

nsb@1Timothy:6:1 @ Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the teachings will not be blasphemed.

nsb@1Timothy:6:2 @ Do not despise your believing masters, because they are brothers. Serve them, because they who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

nsb@1Timothy:6:3 @ If any man teaches a different doctrine, and does not consent to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine that is according to godliness,

nsb@1Timothy:6:5 @ frictions between men corrupted in mind and lacking in truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.

nsb@1Timothy:6:10 @ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some by longing for it have been led away from the faith. They have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

nsb@1Timothy:6:11 @ But you, O man of God, run from these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience and meekness.

nsb@1Timothy:6:12 @ Fight the good fight of the faith! Lay hold on everlasting life! You were called and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

nsb@1Timothy:6:13 @ I charge you in the sight of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession:

nsb@1Timothy:6:14 @ Keep the commandment without spot and without reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nsb@1Timothy:6:15 @ The blessed and only Potentate will make him appear in his own appointed time. For he is the King of kings and Lord of lords.

nsb@1Timothy:6:17 @ Command those who are rich in this present system not to be high-minded, not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

nsb@1Timothy:6:21 @ Some have professed this knowledge and erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you.

nsb@2Timothy:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

nsb@2Timothy:1:4 @ I greatly desire to see you, being mindful of your tears, for this will fill me with joy.

nsb@2Timothy:1:5 @ I am mindful of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

nsb@2Timothy:1:6 @ For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God that is in you because of the laying on of my hands.

nsb@2Timothy:1:7 @ God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

nsb@2Timothy:1:8 @ Do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me his prisoner. Join me in suffering for the good news according to the power of God.

nsb@2Timothy:1:10 @ The appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus revealed this. Jesus abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the good news.

nsb@2Timothy:1:11 @ I was appointed to be a messenger of this good news, an apostle, and a teacher.

nsb@2Timothy:1:12 @ It is for this reason that I suffer these things. But I am still full of confidence, because I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to keep safe until that day what he has entrusted to me.

nsb@2Timothy:1:14 @ Through the power of the Holy Spirit, who lives in us. Keep the good things that have been entrusted to you.

nsb@2Timothy:1:16 @ The Lord grants mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chains.

nsb@2Timothy:1:18 @ May the Lord grant him to find the mercy of God in that day, and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, you know very well.

nsb@2Timothy:2:3 @ You must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

nsb@2Timothy:2:4 @ No soldier entangles himself in the affairs of this life. That way, he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.

nsb@2Timothy:2:6 @ The hard-working farmer should be first to receive his share of the crops.

nsb@2Timothy:2:8 @ Remember that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. He is a descendant of David, according to my good news.

nsb@2Timothy:2:9 @ I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal. But the word of God is not imprisoned.

nsb@2Timothy:2:10 @ For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.

nsb@2Timothy:2:14 @ Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to argue about words. This is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.

nsb@2Timothy:2:15 @ Be diligent to be presented approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

nsb@2Timothy:2:17 @ This kind of talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus.

nsb@2Timothy:2:18 @ These men have gone astray from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.

nsb@2Timothy:2:19 @ The foundation of God stands firm having this seal: »Jehovah knows those who belong to him,« and: »Everyone who names the name of Jehovah is to abstain from wickedness.«

nsb@2Timothy:2:20 @ Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and of earthenware, and some to honor and some to dishonor.

nsb@2Timothy:2:26 @ They should come to their senses out of the snare of the Devil. He has taken them captive and they do his will.

nsb@2Timothy:3:2 @ For men will be lovers of their own selves, covetous, arrogant, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

nsb@2Timothy:3:3 @ unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, despisers of those who are good,

nsb@2Timothy:3:4 @ traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

nsb@2Timothy:3:5 @ having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Stay away from people like this!

nsb@2Timothy:3:7 @ They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth.

nsb@2Timothy:3:11 @ and also persecutions and sufferings. The things that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. Out of them the Lord delivered me.

nsb@2Timothy:3:14 @ Continue in the things you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

nsb@2Timothy:3:16 @ God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness.

nsb@2Timothy:3:17 @ Thus the man of God may be completely equipped for every good work.

nsb@2Timothy:4:1 @ I solemnly charge you in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

nsb@2Timothy:4:2 @ preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.

nsb@2Timothy:4:5 @ Be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

nsb@2Timothy:4:6 @ I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

nsb@2Timothy:4:8 @ The crown of righteousness is laid up for me. The Lord, the righteous judge, will give it to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

nsb@2Timothy:4:15 @ You should also beware of him, for he intensely opposed our words.

nsb@2Timothy:4:17 @ But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the people of the nations might hear. I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion (1 Peter strkjv@5:8) (Psalm strkjv@22:21) (1 Thessalonians strkjv@2:18).

nsb@2Timothy:4:19 @ Greet Prisca and Aquila and the house of Onesiphorus.

nsb@Titus:1:1 @ Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness.

nsb@Titus:1:2 @ It is in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal.

nsb@Titus:1:3 @ In his own time he made his word known through the message that was entrusted to me according to the commandment of God our Savior.

nsb@Titus:1:6 @ A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience.

nsb@Titus:1:7 @ The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent, not greedy of dishonest gain.

nsb@Titus:1:8 @ but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

nsb@Titus:1:10 @ There are many unruly men, vain talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision.

nsb@Titus:1:11 @ They must be stopped. Their mouths must be shut up, for they subvert entire households. They teach things that should not be taught, for the sake of dishonest gain.

nsb@Titus:1:12 @ One of them, a prophet of their own, said: »Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.«

nsb@Titus:1:14 @ not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

nsb@Titus:1:16 @ They profess that they know God; but deny him by their works! They are detestable, disobedient, and not approved for any good work.

nsb@Titus:2:3 @ Aged women likewise should be reverent in behavior and teachers of that which is good. They should not be slanderers nor enslaved to too much wine.

nsb@Titus:2:5 @ to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God will not be dishonored.

nsb@Titus:2:7 @ Be an example of good works in all things, showing no corruption in your doctrine.

nsb@Titus:2:10 @ They should not steal from them, but should show good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

nsb@Titus:2:11 @ For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all men,

nsb@Titus:2:13 @ Look for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of the great God. And look for our Savior, Jesus Christ.

nsb@Titus:3:2 @ to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

nsb@Titus:3:4 @ When the kindness of God our Savior, and his love toward man, appeared,

nsb@Titus:3:5 @ not by works done in righteousness, which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.

nsb@Titus:3:7 @ Being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

nsb@Titus:3:8 @ Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

nsb@Titus:3:9 @ You should avoid foolish arguing and dissentions, questioning; and genealogies, and arguing about law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

nsb@Philemon:1:1 @ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

nsb@Philemon:1:4 @ I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers.

nsb@Philemon:1:6 @ May the fellowship of your faith operate in the knowledge of every good thing that is in you for Jesus Christ.

nsb@Philemon:1:7 @ For I have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the holy ones have been refreshed through you, brother.

nsb@Philemon:1:9 @ Because of love I appeal to you, since I am Paul, the aged. I am also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.

nsb@Philemon:1:14 @ Without your agreement I would do nothing. Your goodness should not be out of necessity, but of free will.

nsb@Philemon:1:25 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with your spirit. Amen.

nsb@Hebrews:1:2 @ He has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom he made the ages.

nsb@Hebrews:1:3 @ God’s Son is the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his being. He sustains all things by his powerful word. After Jesus purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

nsb@Hebrews:1:5 @ To which of the angels did God ever say at any time: »You are my son; this day I have begotten you«? And again: »I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son«?

nsb@Hebrews:1:6 @ And again: when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says: »Let all the angels of God pay him homage.«

nsb@Hebrews:1:7 @ Of the angels he says: »He makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.« (Psalm strkjv@104:4)

nsb@Hebrews:1:8 @ But he says to the Son: »God is your throne forever and ever.: A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. (Psalm strkjv@45:6, 7)

nsb@Hebrews:1:9 @ »You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions.«

nsb@Hebrews:1:10 @ And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands. (Psalm strkjv@102:25)

nsb@Hebrews:1:13 @ To which of the angels did he say at any time: »Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool«? (Psalm strkjv@110:1)

nsb@Hebrews:1:14 @ Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for those who will be heirs of salvation?

nsb@Hebrews:2:2 @ If the word spoken through angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward.

nsb@Hebrews:2:4 @ God also testified about it with signs, wonders, and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit given according to his will.

nsb@Hebrews:2:6 @ But a certain witness has given proof, saying: »What is man, that you are mindful of him? Or what is the son of man that you take care of him?

nsb@Hebrews:2:7 @ »You made him a little lower than the angels for a little while. (Psalm strkjv@8:4, 5) You crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of your hands.

nsb@Hebrews:2:9 @ We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory and honor for suffering death. By the grace of God he tasted death for every man.

nsb@Hebrews:2:10 @ It was appropriate that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, should bring many sons to glory, to make the Chief Agent of their salvation perfect through suffering.

nsb@Hebrews:2:12 @ He says: »I will declare your name to my brothers; in the middle of the congregation I will sing praises to you.«

nsb@Hebrews:2:14 @ Since the »children« are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, the Devil.

nsb@Hebrews:2:15 @ And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

nsb@Hebrews:2:16 @ He does not help the angels, but he helps the seed of Abraham.

nsb@Hebrews:2:17 @ This means that he had to become like his »brothers« in every way, in order to be their faithful and merciful High Priest in his service to God, in order to offer a propitiatory sacrifice for the sins of the people.

nsb@Hebrews:3:1 @ Holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus.

nsb@Hebrews:3:3 @ He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses. This is because the builder of the house has more honor than the house.

nsb@Hebrews:3:4 @ Every house has a builder. God is the builder of all things.

nsb@Hebrews:3:5 @ Indeed Moses was faithful in His house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken afterwards.

nsb@Hebrews:3:8 @ »do not harden your hearts and be stubborn like those who tested me in the day of temptation in the wilderness.

nsb@Hebrews:3:12 @ Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you develop a wicked heart lacking faith and turning away from the living God.

nsb@Hebrews:3:13 @ Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called »Today,« that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

nsb@Hebrews:3:14 @ For we have become companions with Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of our firm trust to the end.

nsb@Hebrews:3:16 @ Who were they who heard God and rebelled? All who came out of Egypt with Moses rebelled.

nsb@Hebrews:3:19 @ We see that they could not enter in on account of a lack of faith.

nsb@Hebrews:4:1 @ While the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear that one of you might come up short and not enter.

nsb@Hebrews:4:3 @ We who believe enter into the rest. As God said: »I swore in my anger: ‘They shall not enter into my rest.’« Yet God’s works were completed from the foundation of the world.

nsb@Hebrews:4:9 @ There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

nsb@Hebrews:4:11 @ Let us do our utmost to enter into that rest. Let no one fall into the same pattern of disobedience by not obeying the word.

nsb@Hebrews:4:12 @ The Word of God is alive and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. (Ephesians strkjv@6:17) It separates the physical person from the spiritual person, of both joints and marrow. And it can discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (John strkjv@12:48)

nsb@Hebrews:4:14 @ We have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, so let us hold fast our confession.

nsb@Hebrews:4:16 @ Let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.

nsb@Hebrews:5:1 @ Every high priest taken from among men is appointed in behalf of men in things relating to God. He may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

nsb@Hebrews:5:3 @ That is why he must offer sacrifices, for his own and for the people’s sins.

nsb@Hebrews:5:6 @ As he said in another place:« You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.«

nsb@Hebrews:5:7 @ In the days of his life on earth, when he offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to the one who was able to save him out of death, and was heard because of his godly reverence. (Galatians strkjv@1:1) (Psalm strkjv@69:13)

nsb@Hebrews:5:9 @ Being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him. (Psalm strkjv@3:8)

nsb@Hebrews:5:10 @ He was called by God to be a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

nsb@Hebrews:5:11 @ We have many things to say about him and it is hard to explain it to you, for you are dull of hearing.

nsb@Hebrews:5:12 @ At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food.

nsb@Hebrews:5:13 @ Everyone who drinks milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

nsb@Hebrews:5:14 @ But solid food belongs to mature people. It belongs to those who by reason of use have their senses trained to know the difference between good and evil.

nsb@Hebrews:6:1 @ Therefore leaving the elementary truths of the doctrine of Christ let us move on to maturity. Let us not lay again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.

nsb@Hebrews:6:2 @ We should not repeat the basic teachings about baptisms, and of the laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

nsb@Hebrews:6:4 @ Those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

nsb@Hebrews:6:5 @ and have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

nsb@Hebrews:6:6 @ if they shall fall away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance. This is because they personally impale the Son of God again, and expose him to public shame.

nsb@Hebrews:6:11 @ We desire that every one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope down to the end.

nsb@Hebrews:6:17 @ When God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he confirmed it with an oath.

nsb@Hebrews:6:18 @ God did this to offer encouragement so we may rely on the hope offered to us. We have taken refuge in that hope and it is impossible for God to lie. These two things can never be changed.

nsb@Hebrews:6:19 @ We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of life. It is a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain.

nsb@Hebrews:6:20 @ That is where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

nsb@Hebrews:7:1 @ Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him.

nsb@Hebrews:7:2 @ Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything to him. He was first of all, by translation of his name, »King of Righteousness,« and then he was also ruler of Salem, which means, »King of Peace.«

nsb@Hebrews:7:3 @ He was without father or mother or genealogy, and neither had beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he continues as a priest forever.

nsb@Hebrews:7:4 @ See how great he was! Abraham the patriarch gave him a tenth of the spoils.

nsb@Hebrews:7:5 @ The descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the Law to take tithes from the people. This is from their brothers, for these are descended from Abraham.

nsb@Hebrews:7:8 @ In this instance mortal men receive tithes, in the other by the one of whom it is testified that he lives.

nsb@Hebrews:7:10 @ He was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.

nsb@Hebrews:7:11 @ If perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood, for under it the people received the Law, what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, instead of one named after the order of Aaron?

nsb@Hebrews:7:13 @ The one about whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

nsb@Hebrews:7:15 @ This is clear if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek,

nsb@Hebrews:7:16 @ He would become such, not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

nsb@Hebrews:7:17 @ For it is announced: »You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.«

nsb@Hebrews:7:22 @ Jesus became the guarantee of a better covenant.

nsb@Hebrews:7:27 @ He does not have a day-by-day need as the high priests do, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then for those of the people. He sacrificed for sin once for all when he offered up himself.

nsb@Hebrews:8:1 @ Here is a summary of the things we are discussing: We have this kind of high priest. He sat down at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven.

nsb@Hebrews:8:2 @ He is a minister of the Holy Place and of the true Tabernacle, built by Jehovah and not man.

nsb@Hebrews:8:3 @ Every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. It is necessary to have something to offer.

nsb@Hebrews:8:4 @ If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law.

nsb@Hebrews:8:5 @ The work they do as priests is only a copy and a shadow of what is in heaven. It is the same as it was with Moses. When he was about to build the sacred tent, God told him: »Be sure to make everything according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.«

nsb@Hebrews:8:6 @ Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry. The covenant that he arranged between God and his people is a better one, because it is based on promises of better things.

nsb@Hebrews:8:8 @ God finds fault with his people and said to them: »‘The time is coming,’ says Jehovah, ‘when I will draw up a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. (Jeremiah strkjv@31:31)

nsb@Hebrews:8:9 @ »‘It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. They were not faithful to the covenant I made with them, and so I paid no attention to them.

nsb@Hebrews:8:10 @ »‘This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,’ said Jehovah: ‘I will put my teachings in their mind, I will write them upon their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Jeremiah strkjv@31:32)

nsb@Hebrews:9:4 @ It had a golden incense burner. The Ark of the Covenant was completely covered with gold. It contained the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant.

nsb@Hebrews:9:5 @ The cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat were above the Ark. Now is not the time to speak in detail.

nsb@Hebrews:9:6 @ When these things are prepared, the priests enter the outer room often to carry on their services.

nsb@Hebrews:9:7 @ Only the high priest enters the inner room. Once a year he entered with blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people.

nsb@Hebrews:9:9 @ This is a symbol that points to the present time. It means that the offerings and animal sacrifices presented to God cannot make the worshiper’s heart perfect,

nsb@Hebrews:9:11 @ Christ came as the high priest of the good things that are now here. He also went into a much better tent that is not made by humans and does not belong to this creation.

nsb@Hebrews:9:12 @ He went once and forever into the Most Holy Place having eternal salvation. It is not with the blood of goats and young bulls, but with his blood.

nsb@Hebrews:9:13 @ The blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes from the burning of a young cow, sprinkled on the unclean made them outwardly clean.

nsb@Hebrews:9:14 @ The blood of Christ did even more. Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself without blemish to God and cleansed your conscience from dead works. Now we can serve the living God.

nsb@Hebrews:9:15 @ For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant. A death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant. Those called may receive the promise of everlasting inheritance.

nsb@Hebrews:9:19 @ When Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

nsb@Hebrews:9:20 @ He said: »This is the blood of the covenant that God has presented to you.«

nsb@Hebrews:9:21 @ He sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of service.

nsb@Hebrews:9:23 @ It was necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these. But the heavenly things should be cleansed with better sacrifices than these.

nsb@Hebrews:9:24 @ Christ has not entered into the Holy Place made with human hands. This is a copy of the true one. He has entered into heaven to appear before the presence of God for us.

nsb@Hebrews:9:25 @ Neither should he offer himself as the high priest enters into the Holy Place every year with blood of others.

nsb@Hebrews:9:26 @ Otherwise he would have to suffer often from the founding of the world. He has presented himself once at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

nsb@Hebrews:9:28 @ So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. He will appear the second time without sin to those who look to him for their salvation.

nsb@Hebrews:10:1 @ The Law is a shadow of the good things to come. It is not the actual things. The continual yearly sacrifices can never make those who worship perfect.

nsb@Hebrews:10:2 @ If it could, it would cease to be offered. Once the worshipers were cleansed they would have no awareness of sin anymore.

nsb@Hebrews:10:3 @ These sacrifices are an annual reminder of sin.

nsb@Hebrews:10:4 @ It is not possible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take away sins.

nsb@Hebrews:10:5 @ When Christ came into the world he said: »‘Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but you have prepared a body for me.

nsb@Hebrews:10:6 @ »‘You have no pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.’

nsb@Hebrews:10:7 @ »Then I said: ‘I have come in the scroll of the book. It is written about me, to do your will, O God.’«

nsb@Hebrews:10:8 @ Then he said: »You did not want nor did you approve of sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin;« which are offered by the Law.

nsb@Hebrews:10:10 @ We are sanctified by his »will« through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

nsb@Hebrews:10:11 @ Every priest stands daily, serving and offering time after time the same sacrifices. Yet they can never take away sins.

nsb@Hebrews:10:12 @ But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,

nsb@Hebrews:10:14 @ With one offering he has perfected those who are sanctified forever.

nsb@Hebrews:10:18 @ Where there is forgiveness for these, there is no more offering for sin.

nsb@Hebrews:10:19 @ Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

nsb@Hebrews:10:21 @ having a high priest over the house of God,

nsb@Hebrews:10:22 @ let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

nsb@Hebrews:10:23 @ Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful that promised.

nsb@Hebrews:10:25 @ Not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and even more, as you see the day approaching.

nsb@Hebrews:10:26 @ If we continue to sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins.

nsb@Hebrews:10:27 @ But there remains a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fiery indignation, which will devour God’s enemies.

nsb@Hebrews:10:29 @ What about those who despise the Son of God? Those who treat as a cheap thing the blood of God’s covenant that purified them from sin? Those who insult the Spirit of grace? Think how much worse the punishment they deserve will be!

nsb@Hebrews:10:31 @ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

nsb@Hebrews:10:34 @ You shared the sufferings of prisoners. When all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly. This is because you knew that you possessed something much better, which would last forever.

nsb@Hebrews:10:36 @ You need to persevere in order to do the will of God and receive what he promises.

nsb@Hebrews:10:38 @ »My righteous people will live by faith. If any of them turn back, I will not be pleased with them.«

nsb@Hebrews:11:1 @ Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, and evidence of things not seen.

nsb@Hebrews:11:2 @ God approved of the men of old because of their faith.

nsb@Hebrews:11:3 @ By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God. The visible has been made out of things that were not visible.

nsb@Hebrews:11:4 @ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Through this he was commended as righteous. God testified about his gifts. Thus through faith he still speaks even though he is dead.

nsb@Hebrews:11:7 @ By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not seen as yet, moved with godly respect. He prepared an ark to save his house. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.

nsb@Hebrews:11:9 @ By faith he became an alien in the Promised Land. It was not his land. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob. They were heirs with him of the same promise.

nsb@Hebrews:11:12 @ This was to come from one man and him as good as dead. There were born children, as many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as uncountable as the sand by the seashore.

nsb@Hebrews:11:14 @ Those who say such things declare that they are seeking a country of their own.

nsb@Hebrews:11:15 @ If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they came, they would have had opportunity to return.

nsb@Hebrews:11:16 @ They desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Because of this, God is not ashamed to be called their God. He has prepared a city for them!

nsb@Hebrews:11:17 @ By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. He that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only-begotten son!

nsb@Hebrews:11:21 @ By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph. He worshipped while leaning upon the top of his staff.

nsb@Hebrews:11:22 @ By faith Joseph, when his end was near, mentioned the departure of the children of Israel. Then he gave orders concerning his bones.

nsb@Hebrews:11:23 @ By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents. They saw he was a beautiful child and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

nsb@Hebrews:11:24 @ By faith Moses, when he grew up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

nsb@Hebrews:11:25 @ He chose to share the bad treatment with the people of God, rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

nsb@Hebrews:11:26 @ He considered the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. He looked intently for the payment of the reward.

nsb@Hebrews:11:27 @ By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king. He endured, by seeing him who is invisible.

nsb@Hebrews:11:28 @ By faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

nsb@Hebrews:11:30 @ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.

nsb@Hebrews:11:32 @ What more shall I say? For the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,

nsb@Hebrews:11:33 @ who through faith subdued kingdoms, affected righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

nsb@Hebrews:11:34 @ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, and turned to flight foreign armies.

nsb@Hebrews:11:36 @ And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging and bonds and imprisonment.

nsb@Hebrews:11:38 @ The world was not worthy of them! They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

nsb@Hebrews:12:1 @ A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

nsb@Hebrews:12:2 @ Look to Jesus, the Leader and Finisher of our faith. He despised the shame. He endured the stake for the joy that was set before him. Then he sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

nsb@Hebrews:12:9 @ Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh that corrected us, and we gave them respect. Shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

nsb@Hebrews:12:10 @ They disciplined us for a few days for their own pleasure. He disciplines for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

nsb@Hebrews:12:11 @ Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyous. In fact it seems grievous! Nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained.

nsb@Hebrews:12:13 @ Make straight paths for your feet. Let that which is lame be turned out of the way, but rather let it be healed.

nsb@Hebrews:12:15 @ See that no one misses the grace of God; that no bitter root spring up to cause trouble and defile many.

nsb@Hebrews:12:19 @ You have not come to the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of a voice. When the people heard the voice, they begged not to hear another word.

nsb@Hebrews:12:21 @ The sight was so terrible that Moses said: »I am full of fear and trembling.«

nsb@Hebrews:12:22 @ You have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

nsb@Hebrews:12:23 @ to the general assembly and congregation of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.

nsb@Hebrews:12:24 @ You have come to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks in a better way than the blood of Abel.

nsb@Hebrews:13:5 @ You should be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have, for he has said: »I will not leave you. I will not forsake you.«

nsb@Hebrews:13:7 @ Remember those who are taking the lead among you, men that spoke the Word of God to you. Consider their behavior and imitate their faith.

nsb@Hebrews:13:11 @ For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the Holy Place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.

nsb@Hebrews:13:15 @ Let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God through him, that is, the fruit of lips that make confession to his name.

nsb@Hebrews:13:17 @ Obey those who lead you. Submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your lives and must account for this. Obey them that their work may be a joy and not a burden; that would be without gain for you.

nsb@Hebrews:13:20 @ Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

nsb@Hebrews:13:22 @ I urge you, brothers, bear with the word of exhortation. I have written to you in few words.

nsb@James:1:1 @ This letter is from James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings to the twelve tribes that are scattered.

nsb@James:1:3 @ Know that the testing of your faith produces patience.

nsb@James:1:5 @ If any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God. He gives to all generously and without reproach and it will be given to him.

nsb@James:1:6 @ However he must ask in faith, not doubting: for he who doubts is like a surging wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

nsb@James:1:9 @ Let the brother of humble circumstances glory in his high position.

nsb@James:1:11 @ The sun rises with scorching heat and withers the grass. The flower falls off and its beauty perishes. So also the rich man will fade away in his pursuits.

nsb@James:1:12 @ The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

nsb@James:1:17 @ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.

nsb@James:1:18 @ Using his own will, he gave us birth through the word of truth. This way we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

nsb@James:1:20 @ The anger of man does not promote the righteousness of God.

nsb@James:1:21 @ Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.

nsb@James:1:22 @ Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves.

nsb@James:1:23 @ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror.

nsb@James:1:24 @ He sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.

nsb@James:1:25 @ But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continues, being not a hearer who forgets but a doer who works, this man will be blessed in what he does.

nsb@James:2:1 @ My brothers, keep the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. Do not favor one person over the other.

nsb@James:2:10 @ Whoever obeys the whole law and yet stumbles in one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

nsb@James:2:11 @ For he who said: "Do not commit adultery," also said: "Do not murder". Now if you do not commit adultery, but you commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

nsb@James:2:12 @ You should speak and act as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty.

nsb@James:2:15 @ If a brother or sister is without clothes and in lack of daily food,

nsb@James:2:16 @ and one of you says to them: "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you do not give them food and clothing, what good is it?

nsb@James:2:21 @ Was Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

nsb@James:3:1 @ Many of you should not be teachers, my brothers. You know that we will receive a heavier judgment.

nsb@James:3:6 @ The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom.

nsb@James:3:7 @ Every kind of beast and bird, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

nsb@James:3:8 @ But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil. It is full of deadly poison.

nsb@James:3:9 @ We bless Jehovah, the Father, with it. (Psalm strkjv@34:1) Then we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

nsb@James:3:10 @ Blessing and cursing come out of the same mouth! My brothers, these things should not be.

nsb@James:3:13 @ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his works are from meekness because of wisdom.

nsb@James:3:17 @ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without discord, without hypocrisy.

nsb@James:3:18 @ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.

nsb@James:4:1 @ What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

nsb@James:4:4 @ Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

nsb@James:4:5 @ Or do you think the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the attitude of the heart that he induced to live in us cause us to envy?

nsb@James:4:10 @ Humble yourselves in the presence of God, and he will exalt you.

nsb@James:4:11 @ Brothers, do not speak against each other. He who speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

nsb@James:4:13 @ Come now, you that say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit."

nsb@James:5:4 @ Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.

nsb@James:5:5 @ You lived in luxury on the earth, and take your pleasure; you nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

nsb@James:5:7 @ Be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and late rains.

nsb@James:5:8 @ You also be patient. Make your hearts firm, for the coming of the Lord is near.

nsb@James:5:10 @ Brothers, accept the example of suffering and patience by the prophets who spoke in the name of God.

nsb@James:5:11 @ As you know, those who have endured are called blessed. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the outcome Jehovah provided, how he was very tender with his affection and mercy. (Psalm strkjv@103:8)

nsb@James:5:14 @ Is any among you sick? Let him call the elders of the congregation. Let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of God.

nsb@James:5:15 @ The prayer of faith will save the sick person. God will raise him up; and if he committed sins, it will be forgiven him.

nsb@James:5:16 @ Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man helps much.

nsb@James:5:17 @ Elijah was a man of like passions with us. He prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

nsb@James:5:20 @ let him know, that he who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save a person from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

nsb@1Peter:1:1 @ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are temporary residents scattered in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.

nsb@1Peter:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

nsb@1Peter:1:7 @ The proof of your faith is more precious than gold that perishes. Though it is tested by fire, it may be found in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

nsb@1Peter:1:8 @ You love him without seeing him. Though you do not see him, you believe in him. Full of glory, you rejoice greatly with indescribable joy.

nsb@1Peter:1:9 @ You receive your salvation as the outcome of your faith.

nsb@1Peter:1:11 @ searching what time or what manner of time the spirit of Christ that was in them did point to, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them.

nsb@1Peter:1:13 @ Brace up your minds. Remain sober, and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

nsb@1Peter:1:14 @ Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.

nsb@1Peter:1:17 @ If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time you spend here in reverence.

nsb@1Peter:1:18 @ Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,

nsb@1Peter:1:19 @ but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, even the blood of Christ.

nsb@1Peter:1:20 @ Jesus was known before the foundation of the world. He was made known at the end times for your sake.

nsb@1Peter:1:23 @ You have been given a new birth, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and endures.

nsb@1Peter:1:24 @ All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.

nsb@1Peter:1:25 @ But the word of our God abides forever. This is the word of good tidings that was preached to you.

nsb@1Peter:2:5 @ You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

nsb@1Peter:2:8 @ It is a stone that people stumble over, and a large rock that people find offensive. They stumble because they are disobedient to the word. To this end they were appointed.

nsb@1Peter:2:9 @ You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God’s own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

nsb@1Peter:2:10 @ In time past you were no people, but now you are the people of God. You had not then received, but now have received mercy.

nsb@1Peter:2:12 @ Maintain fine behavior among the nations. That way when they speak badly about you, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.

nsb@1Peter:2:13 @ Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it is to the king,

nsb@1Peter:2:15 @ It is God’s will that you do the right things and that this will silence the ignorance of foolish men.

nsb@1Peter:2:16 @ Be free, and yet do not use your freedom for a covering for evil, but as servants of God.

nsb@1Peter:2:19 @ For this is to your credit to suffer wrongfully and endure grief because of your conscience toward God.

nsb@1Peter:2:24 @ He bore our sins in his body upon the stake, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed because of his wounds.

nsb@1Peter:3:3 @ Your appearance should not come from the outward adornment, things like braiding the hair, and wearing jewels of gold, or wearing fine apparel.

nsb@1Peter:3:4 @ Let your appearance be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit. This is of great value in the sight of God.

nsb@1Peter:3:5 @ The holy women of old, who hoped in God, adorned themselves this way, being submissive to their own husbands.

nsb@1Peter:3:7 @ In the same way, you husbands live with your wives in an understanding way. Honor the woman as the weaker vessel. For you are joint-heirs of the grace of life. May your prayers not be hindered.

nsb@1Peter:3:8 @ Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, brotherly, tenderhearted, and humble.

nsb@1Peter:3:12 @ The eyes of Jehovah are upon the righteous. His ears hear their prayers. But the face of Jehovah is against those who do evil.

nsb@1Peter:3:16 @ Keep a good conscience. When you are spoken against, those who revile your good manner of life in Christ may be put to shame.

nsb@1Peter:3:20 @ They were disobedient while the ark was being built. Yet God waited patiently in the days of Noah. But few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.

nsb@1Peter:3:21 @ This was a symbol pointing to baptism, which now saves you. It is not the washing off of bodily dirt, but the promise made to God for a good conscience. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

nsb@1Peter:3:22 @ He is in heaven at the right hand of God, ruling over all angels and heavenly authorities and powers.

nsb@1Peter:4:1 @ Since Christ suffered physically for us, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had. Whoever suffers physically has ceased from sin.

nsb@1Peter:4:2 @ From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God’s will and not by human desires.

nsb@1Peter:4:3 @ You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.

nsb@1Peter:4:7 @ The end of all things is near. Be of sound mind and judgment. Also be sober for the purpose of prayer.

nsb@1Peter:4:8 @ Above all things have intense love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.

nsb@1Peter:4:10 @ According to the gift you have received, minister among yourselves, as good stewards of the increased grace of God.

nsb@1Peter:4:11 @ If any man speaks, speak as it were utterances of God. If any man ministers, minister with the strength which God supplies! May God be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. The glory and dominion belong to God forever and ever. Amen.

nsb@1Peter:4:13 @ As much as you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

nsb@1Peter:4:14 @ If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

nsb@1Peter:4:15 @ Let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler in other people’s business.

nsb@1Peter:4:17 @ For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. If it begins with us first what will it be like in the end for those who do not obey the good news of God?

nsb@1Peter:4:19 @ Let them also that suffer according to the will of God commend themselves in well doing to a faithful Creator.

nsb@1Peter:5:1 @ I exhort the elders among you. I too am an older man and a witness of the sufferings of Christ. I am also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed.

nsb@1Peter:5:2 @ Shepherd the flock of God in your care. Exercise the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God. Do not do it for dishonest gain, but eagerly.

nsb@1Peter:5:4 @ When the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.

nsb@1Peter:5:5 @ Likewise, you younger men, be subject to the older men. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and serve one another. God resists the proud, but gives loving kindness to the humble.

nsb@1Peter:5:6 @ Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you at the proper time.

nsb@1Peter:5:10 @ After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will perfect, establish, and strengthen you.

nsb@1Peter:5:12 @ By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast.

nsb@1Peter:5:14 @ Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all that are in Christ.

nsb@2Peter:1:1 @ Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God, and of our Savior Jesus Christ:

nsb@2Peter:1:2 @ Grace to you and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord!

nsb@2Peter:1:3 @ His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness. This is through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue.

nsb@2Peter:1:4 @ He offered us his precious and exceedingly great promises. Through these you may become partakers of the divine nature. You will escape from the corruption that is in the lust-filled world.

nsb@2Peter:1:8 @ For if these things are yours and abound in you they will keep you from being inactive or unfruitful regarding the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nsb@2Peter:1:11 @ For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

nsb@2Peter:1:12 @ I will always be ready to remind you of these things. Even though you know them, and are established in the truth that is present with you.

nsb@2Peter:1:14 @ I know that putting off my earthly dwelling is imminent, even as our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.

nsb@2Peter:1:16 @ We did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

nsb@2Peter:1:18 @ We heard this voice from out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

nsb@2Peter:1:19 @ We have the word of prophecy made sure! You do well that you pay attention as you would to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts.

nsb@2Peter:1:20 @ Know this first that no prophecy of scripture is for private interpretation.

nsb@2Peter:1:21 @ For no prophecy ever came by the will of man! Men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

nsb@2Peter:2:2 @ Many will follow their lascivious deeds. The way of the truth will be maligned.

nsb@2Peter:2:3 @ They speak evil words about you because of their extreme greed. They will exploit you with false evil words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle. Their destruction will not delay.

nsb@2Peter:2:4 @ God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to captivity in pits of darkness reserved for judgment!

nsb@2Peter:2:5 @ He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly!

nsb@2Peter:2:6 @ He turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, and made them an example to those who are ungodly.

nsb@2Peter:2:7 @ He delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked.

nsb@2Peter:2:9 @ Jehovah knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to preserve the unrighteous for the Day of Judgment. (Psalm strkjv@34:19) (Matthew strkjv@25:46)

nsb@2Peter:2:11 @ Angels, though greater in might and power, do not bring an accusation of abusive judgment against them before Jehovah.

nsb@2Peter:2:12 @ But these are creatures without reason. They were born mere animals to be taken and destroyed! They speak abusively in matters of which they are ignorant. They suffer destruction in their own course of destruction.

nsb@2Peter:2:14 @ They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin! They entice unsteady persons. Their hearts are full of covetousness. They are children of cursing.

nsb@2Peter:2:15 @ They went astray, forsaking the right way. They followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing.

nsb@2Peter:2:16 @ He was rebuked for his own transgression. A beast of burden spoke with a man's voice and restrained the madness of the prophet.

nsb@2Peter:2:17 @ These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved.

nsb@2Peter:2:18 @ For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires of the flesh, by sensuality, those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.

nsb@2Peter:2:19 @ They promise them freedom, while they are bondservants of corruption. A man is brought into bondage by one and enslaved by another.

nsb@2Peter:2:20 @ After they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome; the last state is worse with them than the first.

nsb@2Peter:2:21 @ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

nsb@2Peter:3:2 @ You should remember the words that were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

nsb@2Peter:3:4 @ Saying, »Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.«

nsb@2Peter:3:5 @ For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God,

nsb@2Peter:3:7 @ According to the same word, the heavens that now are, and the earth, are reserved for fire, being kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

nsb@2Peter:3:10 @ The day of Jehovah will come as a thief. The heavens will pass away with a great noise. The elements shall be dissolved with intense heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up. (Joel strkjv@2:31) (Zephaniah strkjv@1:14)

nsb@2Peter:3:11 @ Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons should you be in all holy living and godliness?

nsb@2Peter:3:12 @ Look for and earnestly desire the coming presence of the »Day of Jehovah.« (Zephaniah strkjv@1:14) The heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with intense heat!

nsb@2Peter:3:15 @ Consider the patience of our Lord as salvation. Just as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you.

nsb@2Peter:3:17 @ You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, avoid being carried away with the error of the wicked and falling from your own steadfastness.

nsb@2Peter:3:18 @ Grow in the unmerited favor and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

nsb@1John:1:1 @ We have heard that which was from the beginning. We have also seen it with our own eyes. We looked at it and touched it with our hands. It is the Word of life.

nsb@1John:1:7 @ If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

nsb@1John:2:5 @ Whoever obeys his Word; the love of God is made perfect in him. By this we know that we are in union with him.

nsb@1John:2:12 @ I write to you, my little children, because your sins are forgiven on account of his name.

nsb@1John:2:14 @ I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

nsb@1John:2:15 @ Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

nsb@1John:2:16 @ The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

nsb@1John:2:17 @ The world and its desires are passing away; but he who does the will of God lives forever.

nsb@1John:2:19 @ They went out from us, but they were not of us. If they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it made it plain that they all are not of us.

nsb@1John:2:21 @ I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

nsb@1John:2:27 @ The anointing you received from Him is a part of you and you do not need anyone to teach you. His anointing taught you concerning all things. It is no lie. It is truth, just as you were taught you live through him.

nsb@1John:2:29 @ If you know that he is righteous you know that every one who practices righteousness is born of him.

nsb@1John:3:1 @ Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him.

nsb@1John:3:2 @ Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that when he is revealed we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.

nsb@1John:3:8 @ He who sins is of the devil. For the devil sinned from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was made known, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

nsb@1John:3:9 @ Whoever is born of God does not practice sin! His seed abides in him and he cannot sin because he has been born of God.

nsb@1John:3:10 @ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not from God. He who does not love his brother is not from God.

nsb@1John:3:12 @ We should not be like Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he murder him? It was because his works were evil, and his brother's were righteous.

nsb@1John:3:14 @ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love abides in death.

nsb@1John:3:17 @ Whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?

nsb@1John:3:19 @ By this we shall know we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before him.

nsb@1John:3:23 @ This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another. He gave us this commandment!

nsb@1John:4:2 @ Here is how you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is from God.

nsb@1John:4:3 @ Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that you heard was coming and now it is already in the world.

nsb@1John:4:4 @ You are of God, my little children. You have overcome them because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.

nsb@1John:4:6 @ We are from God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the vital principle of truth, and the principle of deception.

nsb@1John:4:7 @ Beloved let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

nsb@1John:4:9 @ The love of God was made known through us. God sent his only-begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.

nsb@1John:4:13 @ We know that we live with him and he with us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

nsb@1John:4:14 @ We see and testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

nsb@1John:4:15 @ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives with him, and he with God.

nsb@1John:4:17 @ This is love made perfect through us, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment. Just as he is, we are, amid this world.

nsb@1John:5:1 @ Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves him that causes the birth also loves him that is born.

nsb@1John:5:2 @ This is how we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

nsb@1John:5:3 @ For this is the love of God, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

nsb@1John:5:5 @ Who is the one who conquers the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

nsb@1John:5:9 @ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. The witness of God is this, that he gave witness concerning his Son.

nsb@1John:5:10 @ He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in him. He who does not believe God made him a liar because he does not believe the testimony God gives concerning his Son.

nsb@1John:5:12 @ He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

nsb@1John:5:13 @ I wrote these things so you who believe in the name of the Son of God may know you have everlasting life.

nsb@1John:5:15 @ If we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of him.

nsb@1John:5:18 @ We know that no one who is born of God practices sin. He who was born from God watches over himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

nsb@1John:5:20 @ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. We know him that is true for we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and everlasting life.

nsb@2John:1:3 @ In truth and love, God the Father and Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father send you grace, mercy and peace.

nsb@2John:1:4 @ I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

nsb@2John:1:9 @ Whoever pushes ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ, does not have God! He who dwells in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

nsb@2John:1:11 @ He who greets him partakes of his evil works.

nsb@2John:1:13 @ The children of your sister the chosen one greet you.

nsb@3John:1:6 @ They testify about your love seen by the congregation. You do well to send them forward on their journey worthily of God.

nsb@3John:1:7 @ For the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the people of the nations.

nsb@3John:1:10 @ If I come, I will remind you of what he does. He unjustly accuses us with wicked words and is never satisfied. He does not allow the brothers to greet one another and he throws them out of the congregation.

nsb@3John:1:12 @ Demetrius has the witness of all men, and of the truth itself. Yes, we also testify and you know our witness is true.

nsb@Jude:1:1 @ Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

nsb@Jude:1:4 @ Certain men crept in unnoticed. They were appointed long ago for this condemnation. These ungodly men turned the grace of our God into loose conduct. They deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

nsb@Jude:1:5 @ I want to remind you though you once knew this, that Jehovah, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

nsb@Jude:1:6 @ Angels who did not keep their position left their proper habitation. He has kept them in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

nsb@Jude:1:8 @ In like manner these men also in their dreams defile the flesh, reject authority and speak evil of glorious ones.

nsb@Jude:1:9 @ Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil disputed about the body of Moses. He did not speak evil judgment against him in abusive terms, but said: »Jehovah rebukes you.« (Zechariah strkjv@3:2)

nsb@Jude:1:11 @ Woe to them! They went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the rebellious talk of Korah.

nsb@Jude:1:13 @ They are wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, for which the black darkness has been reserved forever.

nsb@Jude:1:14 @ Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these, saying: »Behold, Jehovah came with many thousands of his holy ones.

nsb@Jude:1:15 @ »They execute judgment upon all. They convict all the ungodly of all their wicked behavior, deeds that they have committed in an irreverent way, and of all the hard things those detestable sinners have spoken against him.«

nsb@Jude:1:17 @ But you, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nsb@Jude:1:21 @ Stay in the love of God! Look for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for everlasting life.

nsb@Jude:1:23 @ Save some, snatch them out of the fire. Have mercy on some with alarm. Hate even the garment defiled by the flesh.

nsb@Jude:1:24 @ Now to him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish with exceeding joy.


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