‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot!

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: Mary (called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out,

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us – one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”

to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

As you can verify for yourself, not more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

other than this one thing I shouted out while I stood before them: ‘I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”

a promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain as they earnestly serve God night and day. Concerning this hope the Jews are accusing me, Your Majesty!

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

For if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of doing so.

I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God – given to me for you – in order to complete the word of God,

This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.

and saying, “Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.