"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for being and doing right, for they will be completely satisfied.

"Blessed are those who suffer persecution for being and doing right, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your heavenly Father give what is good to those who keep on asking Him?

And suddenly a furious storm came up, so that the boat was being covered over by the bursting billows, but He kept on sleeping.

So stop being afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

the blind are seeing and the crippled are walking, the lepers are being healed and the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised and the poor are having the good news preached to them.

And what was sown among the thorns illustrates the man who hears the message, and the worries of the times and the pleasures of being rich choke the truth out, and he yields no fruit.

but the boat was already a long way from shore, and was being tossed by the waves, for the wind was against them.

Then Jesus at once spoke to them, "Be men of courage! It is I; stop being afraid."

For just as in the days before the Flood people went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, until the very day Noah entered the ark,

And while the charges were being made against Him by the high priests and elders, He made no answer.

And people from all over Judea and everybody in Jerusalem kept on going out to him and being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

And He stayed in the desert forty days, while He was being tempted by Satan; yea, He was with the wild beasts, but the angels continued to wait upon Him.

but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing.

for they all saw Him and were terrified. But He at once spoke to them and said, "Keep up courage! It is I; stop being afraid."

Then the angel said, "Stop being afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

And all the neighbors were overwhelmed with awe, and all over the hill country of Judea these things were being talked,

But the angel said to them: "Stop being afraid, for now I bring you good tidings of great joy which is to be for all the people;

while He was being tempted by the devil. During that time He ate nothing, and so at the end of it He felt hungry.

as well as James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were Simon's partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, "Stop being afraid; from now on you will be catching men."

Even those who were troubled by foul spirits were being cured.

As He approached the gate of the town, look, there was being carried out a dead man, his mother's only son, and she was a widow! A considerable crowd of townspeople were with her.

And so He answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind are seeing and the crippled are walking, the lepers are being healed and the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised and the poor are having the good news preached to them.

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who continue to ask Him?"

Yes, the very hairs on your heads have all been counted by God! Stop being afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

So you must stop seeking what to eat and what to drink, and must stop being in suspense about these things.

Stop being afraid, my little flock, for your Father has gladly chosen to give you the kingdom.

Even while He was saying this, His opponents were blushing with shame, but all the people were rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him.

There you will weep and grind your teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves being driven away on the outside.

"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then understand that her devastation is near.

And as they were being perplexed about this, two men in dazzling robes suddenly took their stand beside them.

For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.

But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.

God is a spiritual Being, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and reality."

Stop being surprised at this, for the time is coming when all that are in the graves will listen to His voice,

But He said to them, "It is I; stop being afraid!"

Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,

When a woman is in labor, she is in pain, for her time has come, but when the baby is born, she forgets her pain because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would have been fighting to keep me from being turned over to the Jews. But as a matter of fact, my kingdom does not come from such a source."

Then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and look at my hands, and take your hand and put it in my side, and stop being an unbeliever, but be a believer!"

constantly praising God and always having the favor of all the people. And every day the Lord continued to add to them the people who were being saved.

when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple.

if it is for a good deed to a helpless man, or to learn how he was cured, that we are today being tried,

Now the high priest took a stand, and all his friends, the party of the Sadducees; and being filled with jealousy,

Then the military commander went with his attendants and brought them back, but without any violence, for they were afraid of being pelted with stones by the people.

In those days, as the number of the disciples was increasing, complaint was made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

Because he saw one of them being mistreated, he defended and avenged the man who was suffering ill-treatment by striking down the Egyptian.

Saul heartily approved of his being put to death. So on that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all of them, except the apostles, were scattered over Judea and Samaria.

As they continued down the road, they came to some water, and the official said, "Look! here is some water! What is there to keep me from being baptized?"

So send to Joppa and invite Simon, who is called Peter, to come over. He is being entertained at the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seashore.'

So Peter was being kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God for him was persistently made by the church.

So he kept following him out, but he was not conscious that what was being done by the angel was real; he thought he was dreaming it.

For as I was going here and there and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' So it is about the Being whom you are in ignorance already worshiping that I am telling you.

One night in a vision the Lord said to Paul, "Stop being afraid, go on speaking, never give up;

For we are in danger of being charged with rioting for today's assembly, as there is not a single reason we can give for it."

But Paul went down and fell on him and embraced him, and said, "Stop being alarmed, his life is still in him."

and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and held the clothes of those who killed him.'

When Paul was called, Tertullus opened the prosecution by saying: "Your Excellency, Felix, since we are enjoying perfect peace through you and since reforms for this nation are being brought about through your foresight,

Festus answered that Paul was being kept in custody in Caesarea, and that he himself was going there soon.

if the Christ should suffer, and by being the first to rise from the dead was to proclaim the light to the Jewish people and to the heathen."

And as the harbor was not fit to winter in, the majority favored the plan to set sail from there and see if they could reach Phoenix and winter there, this being a harbor in Crete facing west-southwest and west-north-west.

After hoisting it on board, they used ropes to brace the ship, and since they were afraid of being stranded on the Syrtis quicksands, they lowered the sail and let her drift.

For a number of days neither the sun nor the stars were to be seen, and the storm continued to rage, until at last all hope of being saved was now vanishing,

and said, "Stop being afraid, Paul. You must stand before the Emperor; and listen! God has graciously given to you the lives of all who are sailing with you.'

For God's anger from heaven is being uncovered against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth;

and understand His will, and by being instructed in the law can know the things that excel,

As the Scripture says: "For your sake we are being put to death the livelong day; we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."

For to keep you from being self-conceited, brothers, I do not want to have a misunderstanding of this uncovered secret, that only temporary insensibility has come upon Israel until the full quota of the heathen peoples comes in,

Keep on thinking in harmony with one another. Stop being high-minded but keep on associating with lowly people. Stop being conceited.

Stop being conquered by evil, but keep on conquering evil with good.

For Christ died and lived again for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

when I make my trip to Spain, I certainly hope to see you on my way there and to be helped forward by you, after I have enjoyed being with you awhile.

For the message of the cross is nonsense to those who are in the process of being destroyed, but it is the power of God to those who are in the process of being saved.

And yet, you are proud of it, instead of being sorry for it, and seeing to it that the man who has done this be removed from your membership!

To say no more, it is a mark of moral failure among you to have lawsuits at all with one another. Why not rather suffer being wronged? Why not suffer being robbed?

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice

Has a man been called after he was circumcised? He must not try to change it. Has a man been called without being circumcised? He must not be circumcised.

Being circumcised or not being circumcised has no value, but keeping God's commands is important.

Now stop being idolaters, as some of them were, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."

Stop being stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

But since we do bring down upon us this judgment, we are being disciplined by the Lord, so that finally we may not be condemned along with the world.

Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.

Otherwise, what do those people mean who submit to being baptized on behalf of their dead? If the dead are never raised at all, why do they submit to being baptized on their behalf?

So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.

so you must do the opposite, freely forgive and comfort him, to keep him from being overwhelmed by his excessive sadness.

to keep us from being worsted by Satan, for we know what his intentions are.

Indeed, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, alike for those who are being saved and for those who are perishing;

And all of us, with faces uncovered, because we continue to reflect like mirrors the splendor of the Lord, are being transformed into likeness to Him, from one degree of splendor to another, since it comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

always being persecuted, but not deserted; always getting a knockdown, but never a knockout;

always being exposed to death as Jesus was, so that in my body the life of Jesus may be clearly shown.

For all the time I continue to live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that in my mortal lower nature the life of Jesus may be clearly shown.

To keep my ministry from being found fault with, I am trying not to put a single hindrance in anybody's way.

with earnest entreaty, they kept on begging me for the favor of sharing in this service that is being rendered to God's people.

Not only that, but he has been selected by the churches to travel with me for this gracious contribution which is being raised by me, so that it may turn out for the glory of the Lord and a proof of my readiness to serve.

I am arranging it so that no one can blame me in the matter of this munificent fund that is being handled by me.

It is really superfluous for me to write to you about this service which is being rendered to God's people,

to keep me -- not to mention you -- from being humiliated for having such confidence in you, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready.

and when I was with you and needed money, I never burdened a single one of you for a cent, for the brothers came from Macedonia and supplied what I needed. And so I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way.

Who is weak without my being weak too? Who is caused to fall without my being fired with indignation?