Does a lion roar in the woods if he has not cornered his prey? Does a young lion bellow from his den if he has not caught something?

If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the Lord not responsible?

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your sins.”

Then he sat down opposite the offering box, and watched the crowd putting coins into it. Many rich people were throwing in large amounts.

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.

So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.

Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?”

Jesus replied, “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.

For every one of God’s promises are “Yes” in him; therefore also through him the “Amen” is spoken, to the glory we give to God.

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!