On the first day of the week, each of you should set aside some income and save it to the extent that God has blessed you, so that a collection will not have to be made when I come.

For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.

Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful.

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge – the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?

Then one of the elders asked me, “These dressed in long white robes – who are they and where have they come from?”

Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God,

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

Each one of the four living creatures had six wings and was full of eyes all around and inside. They never rest day or night, saying: “Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God, the All-Powerful, Who was and who is, and who is still to come!”

If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

As he was saying these things, a ruler came, bowed low before him, and said, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live.”

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward.”

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?

“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.

“See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.