Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

And Peter said, “Look, we have left everything we own to follow you!”

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.

He ordered the centurion to guard Paul, but to let him have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from meeting his needs.

Paul lived there two whole years in his own rented quarters and welcomed all who came to him,

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.

But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him.

But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp.

For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

And after he sent the crowds away, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.