I do not mean that we rule over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.

And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’

Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,

and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven.”