Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

Now at the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried.

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”

because I am with you, and no one will assault you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.”

From there we cast off and arrived at Rhegium, and after one day a south wind sprang up and on the second day we came to Puteoli.

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in your speech, conduct, love, faithfulness, and purity.

Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,

and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!

“‘If he cannot afford an animal from the flock, he must bring his penalty for guilt for his sin that he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, to the Lord, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.

This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come: “How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!

We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

“‘On the second day you must offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,