also to submit to people like this, and to everyone who cooperates in the work and labors hard.

For there is no one here like him who will readily demonstrate his deep concern for you. ¹ 

But you, brothers and sisters, ¹  are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.

They will maintain the outward appearance ¹  of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these. ² 

So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent ¹  as they perform their duties.

Like obedient children, do not comply with ¹  the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance, ² 

And ¹  yearn ²  like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, ³  so that by it you may grow up to ⁴  salvation, ⁵ 

he ¹  will rule ²  them with an iron rod ³  and like clay jars he will break them to pieces, ⁴ 

They have ¹  tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability ²  to injure people for five months is in their tails.

The city’s ¹  wall is made ²  of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass. ³ 

But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas ¹  in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force ²  the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Now ¹  the beast that I saw was like a leopard, but its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. The ²  dragon gave the beast ³  his power, his throne, and great authority to rule. ⁴ 

When ¹  you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

“Everyone ¹  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ²  a wise man ³  who built his house on rock.

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!”

When ¹  he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, ²  like sheep without a shepherd.

“To ¹  what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another, ² 

He presented them with another parable: ¹  “The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.

He gave ¹  them another parable: ²  “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed ³  that a man took and sowed in his field.