“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of hosts, “nor will I accept an offering from you.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

As they were going along the road, someone said to Him, “I will follow You wherever You go.”

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.

Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor.

does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

You are aware of the fact that all who are in

Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to

Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

The

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;

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and they said to Moses, “The people are bringing much more than enough for the construction work which the Lord commanded us to perform.”

The leaders of Succoth said, “

Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hands, that we should give bread to your army?”