Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.

If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.

They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.

After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.

When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.

The Jews also joined in the verbal attack, claiming that these things were true.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.

Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you.

I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.

Therefore, dear friends, since you are waiting for these things, strive to be found at peace, without spot or blemish, when you come into his presence.

Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.