“A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were gone.”

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!

Paul replied, “I did not realize, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.’”

How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them?

But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”

But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

For if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of doing so.

“A disciple is not greater than his teacher, nor a slave greater than his master.

And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.

because John had repeatedly told him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

So they began to discuss this among themselves, saying, “It is because we brought no bread.”

I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to heal him.”