Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it can be confirmed by two or three witnesses. ¹ 

Preach the message, ¹  be ready ²  whether it is convenient or not, ³  reprove, rebuke, exhort ⁴  with complete patience and instruction.

Now if he has defrauded you of anything or owes you anything, charge what he owes ¹  to me.

You ought to say instead, ¹  “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”

Let your ¹  beauty ²  not be external – the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry ³  or fine clothes –

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. ¹  I wish you were either cold or hot!

Furthermore, ¹  they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, ²  of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.

If ¹  your hand or your foot causes you to sin, ²  cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have ³  two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them. ¹ 

Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers ¹  of the field grow; they do not work ²  or spin.

Or how can you say ¹  to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

But he has no root in himself and does not endure; ¹  when ²  trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,” ¹ 

For what does it benefit a person ¹  if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

Am I not ¹  permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ ² 

For then there will be great suffering ¹  unlike anything that has happened ²  from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

Then the righteous will answer him, ¹  ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions ¹  of angels right now?

So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus ¹  Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?” ²