And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

And he stood up and went home.

As you enter the house, give it greetings.

Then Jesus left that place and entered their synagogue.

After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

They also said many other things against him, reviling him.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

[[And each one departed to his own house.

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.

While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to look for Saul,