But God spoke as follows: ‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus,

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head.

So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?

But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written, “I believed; therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak.

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts.

complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.

I sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are doing and that he may encourage your hearts.

And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisters in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith excellence, to excellence, knowledge;

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.

He said to them, “Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

I tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.”