And he was amazed because of their unbelief. Then he went around among the villages and taught.

The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house.

Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

The disciples began to look at one another, worried and perplexed to know which of them he was talking about.

“Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life.”

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it drift away.

Now the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge –

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,

For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow toward us, so also our comfort through Christ overflows to you.

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart as to Christ,

being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully

But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!”

But the Lord’s angelic messenger told Elijah the Tishbite, “Get up, go to meet the messengers from the king of Samaria. Say this to them: ‘You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are on your way to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub the god of Ekron.

When the builders established the Lord’s temple, the priests, ceremonially attired and with their clarions, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with their cymbals, stood to praise the Lord according to the instructions left by King David of Israel.

Then, as soon as the copy of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read in the presence of Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their colleagues, they proceeded promptly to the Jews in Jerusalem and stopped them with threat of armed force.

In those days no one could travel safely, for total chaos had overtaken all the people of the surrounding lands.