To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you can rejoice and I can be free from anxiety.

But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice – practices I also hate.

“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

and said, “What will you give me to betray him into your hands?” So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

“So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”

came to me and stood beside me and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight!’ And at that very moment I looked up and saw him.