I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  the one who believes ²  has eternal life. ³ 

We ¹  have come to believe and to know ²  that you are the Holy One of God!” ³ 

When they got out on the beach, ¹  they saw a charcoal fire ready ²  with a fish placed on it, and bread.

But many of those who had listened to ¹  the message ²  believed, and the number of the men ³  came to about five thousand.

At that very moment, ¹  three men sent to me from Caesarea ²  approached ³  the house where we were staying. ⁴ 

So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! ¹  For everything belongs to you,

I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

They requested ¹  only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, ¹  I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law. ² 

You know that everyone in the province of Asia ¹  deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,” ¹ 

But when you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass or provoke them because I am not giving you any of the Ammonites’ land as your possession; I have already given it to Lot’s descendants ¹  as their possession.

The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. ¹  The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. ²  They were assigned Gilead and Bashan. ³ 

“When you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites was advancing against you, you said to me, ‘No! A king will rule over us’ – even though the Lord your God is your king!

So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Abner ¹  has come to you! Why would you send him away? Now he’s gone on his way! ² 

He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord really wants from you: ¹  He wants you to ²  promote ³  justice, to be faithful, ⁴  and to live obediently before ⁵  your God.

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

“I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  the one who hears ²  my message ³  and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, ⁴  but has crossed over from death to life.

Look, a time ¹  is coming – and has come – when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, ²  and I will be left alone. ³  Yet ⁴  I am not alone, because my Father ⁵  is with me.

Without being weak in faith, he considered ¹  his own body as dead ²  (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.