and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

“Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.”

He said to them, “Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

Then Jesus spoke out again, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”