Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?”

And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you.

But when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

All the people, from the least to the greatest, paid close attention to him, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called ‘Great.’”

In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth.”

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

But they encountered a patch of crosscurrents and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck fast and could not be moved, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.

For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.