so that no one can boast in his presence.

Then people from Jerusalem, as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

When King Herod heard this he was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him.

and all humanity will see the salvation of God.’”

So then, if you will worship me, all this will be yours.”

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

from whom every family in heaven and on the earth is named.

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet’s own imagination,

All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

Every island fled away and no mountains could be found.

Now when Jesus realized what they were thinking, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and no town or house divided against itself will stand.

As he entered Jerusalem the whole city was thrown into an uproar, saying, “Who is this?”

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.’

On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.