Woe ¹  to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

But I was personally ¹  unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress ¹  on the earth and wrath against this people.

ruin and misery are in their paths,

since he is a double-minded individual, ¹  unstable in all his ways.

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats ¹  in the synagogues ²  and elaborate greetings ³  in the marketplaces!

Just ¹  as it was ²  in the days of Noah, ³  so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

In ¹  past ²  generations he allowed all the nations ³  to go their own ways,

Brothers and sisters, ¹  do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

From James, ¹  a slave ²  of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. ³  Greetings!

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud ¹  over the miseries that are coming on you.

Thus I told you ¹  that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, ²  you will die in your sins.”

The purpose of this enlightenment is that ¹  through the church the multifaceted wisdom ²  of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, ¹  has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

All the law and the prophets depend ¹  on these two commandments.”

They ¹  love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues ² 

and elaborate greetings ¹  in the marketplaces, and to have people call them ‘Rabbi.’

Now some of the experts in the law ¹  were sitting there, turning these things over in their minds: ² 

and the best seats in the synagogues ¹  and the places of honor at banquets.