But we know where this man<n id="1" /> comes from.<n id="2" /> Whenever the Christ<n id="3" /> comes, no one will know where he comes from.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.<n id="1" />p>

Jesus stood up straight<n id="1" /> and said to her, &#8220;Woman,<n id="2" /> where are they? Did no one condemn you?&#8221;

No one has greater love than this &#8211; that one lays down his life<n id="1" /> for his friends.

But now I am going to the one who sent me,<n id="1" /> and not one of you is asking me, &#8216;Where are you going?&#8217;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">His disciples said, &#8220;Look, now you are speaking plainly<n id="1" /> and not in obscure figures of speech!<n id="2" />

He said this<n id="1" /> to fulfill the word he had spoken,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.<n id="1" />

(For the Spirit<n id="1" /> had not yet come upon<n id="2" /> any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)<n id="3" />

and he made no distinction<n id="1" /> between them and us, cleansing<n id="2" /> their hearts by faith.

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue,<n id="1" /> and began to beat<n id="2" /> him in front of the judgment seat.<n id="3" /> Yet none of these things were of any concern<n id="4" /> to Gallio.p>

You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming<n id="1" /> to you anything that would be helpful,<n id="2" /> and from teaching you publicly<n id="3" /> and from house to house,

When his accusers stood up, they did not charge<n id="1" /> him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected.<n id="2" />

and as they were leaving they said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;This man is not doing anything deserving<n id="2" /> death or imprisonment.&#8221;

And now I advise<n id="1" /> you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.<n id="2" />

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.<n id="1" />

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because <i><b>the righteous one will live by faithb>i>.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> I offer an example from everyday life:<n id="2" /> When a covenant<n id="3" /> has been ratified,<n id="4" /> even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.