So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes from the vineyard of the earth and tossed them into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

For all the nations have fallen from the wine of her immoral passion, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.”

So he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.

may your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money in it.

so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’

He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea and he was alone on the land.

Now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.