When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted from grief.

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now this is how he did so.

an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth –

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

I do not mean that we rule over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.

For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!

begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints.

I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.

For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints,

On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was to the circumcised

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

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.

They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,