You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

“And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth nations will be in distress, anxious over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves.

Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.

The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth.”

So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he could see nothing. Leading him by the hand, his companions brought him into Damascus.

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.