And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.

“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

Then Jesus said to them, “When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler’s bag, or sandals, you didn’t lack anything, did you?” They replied, “Nothing.”

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?

Jesus replied, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?”

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”

And we proclaim to you the good news about the promise to our ancestors,

Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us with no orders from us and have confused you, upsetting your minds by what they said,

So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!”

Then Felix, who understood the facts concerning the Way more accurately, adjourned their hearing, saying, “When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case.”

Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important for your survival. For not one of you will lose a hair from his head.”

So for this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, for I am bound with this chain because of the hope of Israel.”

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.