A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

There was a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe, to be used in ministering, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering.

He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.

This is what the Lord says: “Just as a shepherd salvages from the lion’s mouth a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be salvaged. They will be left with just a corner of a bed, and a part of a couch.”

Then he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest.

You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father.

I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;

He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

until I find a place for the Lord, a fine dwelling place for the powerful ruler of Jacob.”

She will place a fair garland on your head; she will bestow a beautiful crown on you.”

A person has joy in giving an appropriate answer, and a word at the right time – how good it is!

A bribe works like a charm for the one who offers it; in whatever he does he succeeds.

But whoever is among the living has hope; a live dog is better than a dead lion.