While they were saying these things, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

But Peter helped him up, saying, “Stand up. I too am a mere mortal.”

They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews.

When you examine him yourself, you will be able to learn from him about all these things we are accusing him of doing.”

This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I would also like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he replied, “you will hear him.”

If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.

Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.

Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”