Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

But if someone says to you, “This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience –

and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

And he said to him, “I will give you all these things if you throw yourself to the ground and worship me.”

Then some of the experts in the law said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming!”

But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that entire region.

Now when Jesus finished these parables, he moved on from there.

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard reports about Jesus,

The young man said to him, “I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws. What do I still lack?”

This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet:

Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”