For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

Forp> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>the one who wants to love life and see good days must keepi>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceitb>.i>p>

while waiting for and hastening<n id="1" /> the coming of the day of God?<n id="2" /> Because of this day,<n id="3" /> the heavens will be burned up and<n id="4" /> dissolve, and the celestial bodies<n id="5" /> will melt away in a blaze!<n id="6" />

You also know that<n id="1" /> the angels who did not keep within their proper domain<n id="2" /> but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept<n id="3" /> in eternal chains<n id="4" /> in utter<n id="5" /> darkness, locked up<n id="6" /> for the judgment of the great Day.

and she<n id="1" /> fled into the wilderness<n id="2" /> where a place had been prepared for her<n id="3" /> by God, so she could be taken care of<n id="4" /> for 1,260 days.p>

For in those days before the flood, people<n id="1" /> were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

I<n id="1" /> tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit<n id="2" /> of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father&#8217;s kingdom.&#8221;

So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body<n id="1" /> and say to the people, &#8216;He has been raised from the dead,&#8217; and the last deception will be worse than the first.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer<n id="3" /> many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law,<n id="4" /> and be killed, and after three days rise again.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Six days later<n id="1" /> Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John and led them alone up a high mountain privately. And he was transfigured before them,<n id="2" />

for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, &#8220;The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men.<n id="1" /> They<n id="2" /> will kill him,<n id="3" /> and after three days he will rise.&#8221;<n id="4" />

I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> I will no longer drink of the fruit<n id="2" /> of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.&#8221;

And now,<n id="1" /> because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time,<n id="2" /> you will be silent, unable to speak,<n id="3" /> until the day these things take place.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The next morning<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> departed and went to a deserted place. Yet<n id="3" /> the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble,<n id="2" /> because he sees the light of this world.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Eight days later the disciples were again together in the house,<n id="1" /> and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked,<n id="2" /> Jesus came and stood among them and said, &#8220;Peace be with you!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Brothers,<n id="1" /> I can speak confidently<n id="2" /> to you about our forefather<n id="3" /> David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Cornelius<n id="1" /> replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Four days ago at this very hour, at three o&#8217;clock in the afternoon,<n id="3" /> I was praying in my house, and suddenly<n id="4" /> a man in shining clothing stood before me

<t /><p class="bodytext">After some days Paul said to Barnabas, &#8220;Let&#8217;s return<n id="1" /> and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord<n id="2" /> to see how they are doing.&#8221;<n id="3" />

She continued to do this for many days. But Paul became greatly annoyed,<n id="1" /> and turned<n id="2" /> and said to the spirit, &#8220;I command you in the name of Jesus Christ<n id="3" /> to come out of her!&#8221; And it came out of her at once.<n id="4" />