And so, ¹  since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.” ² 

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one. ¹ 

By his will ¹  we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature ¹  is subdued and has been subdued by humankind. ² 

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

I am writing to you, ¹  little children, that ²  your sins have been forgiven because of his ³  name.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know ¹  that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered ²  by him.

He came to a town called Nazareth ¹  and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus ²  would be called a Nazarene. ³ 

The rain fell, the flood ¹  came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.

But ¹  a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage ²  for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge ³  of his cloak. ⁴ 

But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and gently took her by the hand, and the girl got up.

He replied, ¹  “You have been given ²  the opportunity to know ³  the secrets ⁴  of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.

This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: ¹  “I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.” ² 

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

“Then he will say ¹  to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

He is not here, for he has been raised, ¹  just as he said. Come and see the place where he ²  was lying.

He said to them, “The secret ¹  of the kingdom of God has been given ²  to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed asked if he could go ¹  with him.

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give. It is for those for whom it has been prepared.” ¹