So ¹  with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.

We are also ready to punish every act of disobedience, ¹  whenever your obedience is complete.

Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches ¹  it.

And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

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

I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.

Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, ¹  and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms. ² 

He is like ¹  a tree planted by flowing streams; ²  it ³  yields ⁴  its fruit at the proper time, ⁵  and its leaves never fall off. ⁶  He succeeds in everything he attempts. ⁷ 

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobility, ¹  and your princes feast at the proper time ²  – with self-control and not in drunkenness. ³ 

She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people. ¹ 

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. ¹  The one who has ears had better listen! ² 

He ¹  said to them, “Not everyone can accept this statement, except those to whom it has been given.

My Father is honored ¹  by this, that ²  you bear ³  much fruit and show that you are ⁴  my disciples.

I have told you these things ¹  so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another ¹  in accordance with Christ Jesus,

So, brothers and sisters, ¹  I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, ²  as infants in Christ.

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified. ¹ 

Now before faith ¹  came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners ²  until the coming faith would be revealed.

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up ¹  all things in Christ – the things in heaven ²  and the things on earth. ³