the women<n id="1" /> should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak.<n id="2" /> Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.

<t /><p class="bodytext">With regard to the collection for the saints, please follow the directions that I gave to the churches of Galatia:<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord,<n id="1" /> we try to persuade<n id="2" /> people,<n id="3" /> but we are well known<n id="4" /> to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before<n id="1" /> that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you.<n id="2" />p>

The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body<n id="1" /> to this peace), and be thankful.

If a believing woman<n id="1" /> has widows in her family,<n id="2" /> let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need.<n id="3" />p>

For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways.<n id="1" /> By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight,<n id="2" /> they are stains and blemishes, indulging<n id="3" /> in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers<n id="1" /> will in no way be harmed by the second death.&#8217;p>

They have<n id="1" /> tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability<n id="2" /> to injure people for five months is in their tails.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,<n id="2" /> preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus went throughout all the towns<n id="1" /> and villages, teaching in their synagogues,<n id="2" /> preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness.<n id="3" />

Take my yoke<n id="1" /> on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

<p class="bodytext">Jesus said to them, &#8220;Have you never read in the scriptures:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<i><b>The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstoneb>.i><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyesi>b>&#8217;?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For this reason I<n id="1" /> am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law,<n id="2" /> some of whom you will kill and crucify,<n id="3" /> and some you will flog<n id="4" /> in your synagogues<n id="5" /> and pursue from town to town,

<t /><p class="bodytext">During the reign<n id="1" /> of Herod<n id="2" /> king of Judea, there lived a priest named Zechariah who belonged to<n id="3" /> the priestly division of Abijah,<n id="4" /> and he had a wife named Elizabeth,<n id="5" /> who was a descendant of Aaron.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">Zechariah<n id="1" /> said to the angel, &#8220;How can I be sure of this?<n id="2" /> For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.&#8221;<n id="3" />