For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

Yet many of the crowd ¹  believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ ²  comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” ³ 

You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? ¹  And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, ¹  and no one can snatch ²  them from my Father’s hand.

You do not realize ¹  that it is more to your advantage to have one man ²  die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.” ³ 

For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us ¹  not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules: ² 

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time ¹  in nothing else than telling ²  or listening to something new.) ³ 

other than ¹  this one thing ²  I shouted out while I stood before ³  them: ‘I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.’” ⁴ 

about noon along the road, Your Majesty, ¹  I saw a light from heaven, ²  brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around ³  me and those traveling with me.

They ¹  exchanged the truth of God for a lie ²  and worshiped and served the creation ³  rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. ¹  Each must be fully convinced in his own mind.

When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire. ¹ 

but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters ¹  at one time, most of whom are still alive, ²  though some have fallen asleep. ³ 

For we do not write you anything other than what ¹  you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely ² 

For how ¹  were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

To me – less than the least of all the saints ¹  – this grace was given, ²  to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

and most of the brothers and sisters, ¹  having confidence in the Lord ²  because of my imprisonment, now more than ever ³  dare to speak the word ⁴  fearlessly.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition ¹  or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.