and sent them to Jesus to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

Jesus replied, “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

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

When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she did not open the gate, but ran back in and told them that Peter was standing at the gate.

So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”

After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.

They sent this letter with them: From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers and sisters in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia, greetings!

He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

Because I was at a loss how I could investigate these matters, I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.

After three months we put out to sea in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island and had the “Heavenly Twins” as its figurehead.

And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head.

God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

With regard to the question about people who have never married, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.