to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.

but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?

and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan – a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ,

The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God – the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come – the All-Powerful!

and a third of the creatures living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed.

saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, “Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”