In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels ¹  over one sinner who repents.”

He ¹  was longing to eat ²  the carob pods ³  the pigs were eating, but ⁴  no one gave him anything.

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out ¹  by her unending pleas.’” ² 

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels ¹  and are sons of God, since they are ²  sons ³  of the resurrection.

For I will give you the words ¹  along with the wisdom ²  that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

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 

The thief comes only to steal and kill ¹  and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. ² 

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people ¹  who have not seen and yet have believed.” ² 

but if ¹  it is from God, you will not be able to stop them, or you may even be found ²  fighting against God.” He convinced them, ³ 

I replied, ¹  ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues ²  who believed in you.

And when the blood of your witness ¹  Stephen was shed, ²  I myself was standing nearby, approving, ³  and guarding the cloaks ⁴  of those who were killing him.’ ⁵ 

For circumcision ¹  has its value if you practice the law, but ²  if you break the law, ³  your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

And he ¹  who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit ²  intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved ¹  in the day of the Lord. ² 

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

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised. ¹ 

It is necessary to go on boasting. ¹  Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.