Sighing deeply in his spirit he said, “Why does this generation look for a sign? I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to this generation.”

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.

If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words (that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness,

We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people.

As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

“For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.

As for the Almighty, we cannot attain to him! He is great in power, but justice and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.

He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

if he should live a thousand years twice, yet does not enjoy his prosperity. For both of them die!

“If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

“If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord and because of these detestable things the Lord your God is about to drive them out from before you.