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

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

So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of my mouth!

So I began weeping bitterly because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.

because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets, so you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!”

because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

“A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were gone.”

He came to a town called Nazareth and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus would be called a Nazarene.

Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

“You have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not murder,’ and ‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

“Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

I tell you, many will come from the east and west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,

And the men were amazed and said, “What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!”

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.