If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

Everyone<n id="1" /> went to his own town<n id="2" /> to be registered.

Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.<n id="1" />p>

Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.

that each of you know how to possess his own body<n id="1" /> in holiness and honor,

and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.

When a strong man,<n id="1" /> fully armed, guards his own palace,<n id="2" /> his possessions are safe.<n id="3" />

Whoever does not carry his own cross<n id="1" /> and follow<n id="2" /> me cannot be my disciple.

Then<n id="1" /> beginning with Moses and all the prophets,<n id="2" /> he interpreted to them the things written about<n id="3" /> himself in all the scriptures.p>

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with<n id="1" /> his own wife and each woman with<n id="2" /> her own husband.

So then, the one who marries<n id="1" /> his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.<n id="2" />p>

As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

<p class="bodytext">Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

And see to it that no one becomes<n id="1" /> an immoral or godless person like Esau, who <i>sold his own birthright for a single meali>.<n id="2" />

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.<n id="1" />p>

So<n id="1" /> he contacted<n id="2" /> his master&#8217;s debtors one by one. He asked the first, &#8216;How much do you owe my master?&#8217;

And he summoned ten of his slaves,<n id="1" /> gave them ten minas,<n id="2" /> and said to them, &#8216;Do business with these until I come back.&#8217;

(Now he did not say this on his own,<n id="1" /> but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then the eunuch said<n id="1" /> to Philip, &#8220;Please tell me,<n id="2" /> who is the prophet saying this about &#8211; himself or someone else?&#8221;<n id="3" />

Without being weak in faith, he considered<n id="1" /> his own body as dead<n id="2" /> (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah&#8217;s womb.