At that same time Jesus walked one Sabbath through the wheat fields, and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of wheat and eat them.

Then he said to the man, "Hold out your hand!" And he held it out, and it was restored and became as well as the other.

And his appearance underwent a change in their presence and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light.

The men on guard trembled with fear of him, and became like dead men.

just as the original eye-witnesses who became teachers of the message have handed it down to us.

And the child grew up and became strong in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he proclaimed himself to Israel.

And the child grew up and became strong and thoughtful, with God's blessing resting on him.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this age.

And he laid his hands on her, and she instantly became erect, and praised God.

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and dropped in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted on its branches."

And Herod and Pilate became friends that day, for they had been at enmity before.

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

And many became believers in him in that place.

And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and his feet and ankles immediately became strong,

And he made the agreement of circumcision with him, and so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God was with him,

As the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise God had made to Abraham, the people became more and more numerous in Egypt,

until another king, who knew nothing about Joseph, became ruler of Egypt.

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace and became established. It lived in reverence for the Lord and, stimulated by the holy Spirit, it grew steadily in numbers.

This became known all over Joppa, and many came to believe in the Lord.

and they became aware of it, they made their escape to the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe and the country around,

So the churches became stronger and stronger in the faith, and their numbers increased from day to day.

Many of them became believers and so did no small number of Greek women of position, and men too.

Some persons joined him, however, and became believers, among them Dionysius, a member of the council, and a woman named Damaris, and some others.

he said to them, "Did you receive the holy Spirit when you became believers?" "No," they said to him, "we never even heard that there was a holy Spirit."

Many who became believers would come and openly confess their former practices.

When they heard this, they became very angry, and cried, "Great Artemis of Ephesus!"

and a young man named Eutychus, who was sitting at the window, became very drowsy as Paul's address grew longer and longer, and finally went fast asleep and fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he said,

But as he talked of uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "You may go for the present. I will find time later to send for you."

Abraham, hoping against hope, had faith, and so became the father of many nations, in fulfilment of the Scripture, "So countless shall your descendants be."

For when he died, he became once for all dead to sin; the life he now lives is a life in relation to God.

The rest became callous; as the Scripture says, "God has thrown them into a state of spiritual insensibility, with eyes that cannot see and cars that cannot hear, that has lasted down to this day."

Remember me to Andronicus and Junias, my fellow-countrymen, who went to prison with me. They are noted men among the missionaries, and they became Christians before I did.

For no matter how many guides you may have in the Christian life, you will not have many fathers; for in this matter of union with Christ, I became your father, through preaching the good news to you.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside my childish ways.

This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

You know how gracious the Lord Jesus Christ was. Though he was rich, he became poor for your sake, in order that by his poverty you might become rich.

for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me.

through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

In it, by divine appointment, I became a worker, that I might preach among you the message of God in its fulness??26 that secret, hidden from the ages and generations, but now disclosed to those who are consecrated to him,

and when he was fully qualified, he became a source of unending salvation for all who obey him,

Dear friends, I was just on the point of writing to you about our common salvation, when it became necessary for me to write and appeal to you to come to the defense of the faith that has once for all been intrusted to God's people.

When he broke the sixth seal I saw that there was a great earthquake. The sun turned black as sackcloth; the full moon became like blood;