For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, for the oppression of the king is severe upon his victim.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the Lord, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants."

At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord.

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.

I will put tendons on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'"

At the end of the twelve months that were required for the women, when the turn of each young woman arrived to go to King Ahasuerus -- for in this way they had to fulfill their time of cosmetic treatment: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfume and various ointments used by women --

For you need endurance in order to do God's will and so receive what is promised.

Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one's wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.

It was some time after this when the Ammonites fought with Israel.

"If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold -- gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away -- and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

The one true God acts in a faithful manner; the Lord's promise is reliable; he is a shield to all who take shelter in him.

"Present your argument," says the Lord. "Produce your evidence," says Jacob's king.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.

"For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer."

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

They see your processions, O God -- the processions of my God, my king, who marches along in holy splendor.

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:

Not that I have already attained this -- that is, I have not already been perfected -- but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.

For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?

you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

The craftsman encourages the metalsmith, the one who wields the hammer encourages the one who pounds on the anvil. He approves the quality of the welding, and nails it down so it won't fall over."

rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

Remove the dross from the silver, and material for the silversmith will emerge;

Again he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was now knee deep. Once more he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was waist deep.