for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those who will inherit salvation?

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they?

And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

So the slaves of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?’

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

who will not receive many times more in this age – and in the age to come, eternal life.”

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?”

Some people said, “This is the man!” while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting, “I am the one!”

“Lord,” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?