He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage – I have conquered the world.”

Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own people and your chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?”

So Pilate said, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know I have the authority to release you, and to crucify you?”

And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,

Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

about noon along the road, Your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around me and those traveling with me.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.”

If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.

For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you.

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.

to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

To me – less than the least of all the saints – this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.