So they reclined in groups of hundreds and fifties.

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

When they received it, they began to complain against the landowner,

Some stood up and gave this false testimony against him:

that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples:

He will reward each one according to his works:

And do everything in a decent and orderly manner.

For I testify, they gave according to their means and beyond their means. They did so voluntarily,

For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards,

But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.