Jesus was angry as he looked around at them, but at the same time he felt sorry for them, because they were so stubborn and wrong. Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it became well again.

But Jesus turned around, looked at his disciples, and rebuked Peter. "Get away from me, Satan," he said. "Your thoughts don't come from God but from human nature!"

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

Then Jesus and his disciples went on to another village.

If you become angry, do not let your anger lead you into sin, and do not stay angry all day.

"I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.

You and your descendants must all agree to circumcise every male among you.

(SEE 17:11)

Any male who has not been circumcised will no longer be considered one of my people, because he has not kept the covenant with me."

You said that your children would be captured, but I will bring them into the land that you rejected, and it will be their home.

Because he loved your ancestors, he chose you, and by his great power he himself brought you out of Egypt.

women, and children, and the foreigners who live among you and cut wood and carry water for you.

You are here today to enter into this covenant that the LORD your God is making with you and to accept its obligations,

Hannah made a solemn promise: " LORD Almighty, look at me, your servant! See my trouble and remember me! Don't forget me! If you give me a son, I promise that I will dedicate him to you for his whole life and that he will never have his hair cut."

But this time Hannah did not go. She told her husband, "As soon as the child is weaned, I will take him to the house of the LORD, where he will stay all his life."

I asked him for this child, and he gave me what I asked for.

So I am dedicating him to the LORD. As long as he lives, he will belong to the LORD." Then they worshiped the LORD there.

We will not keep them from our children; we will tell the next generation about the LORD's power and his great deeds and the wonderful things he has done.

May the LORD give you children--- you and your descendants!

May you be blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth!

The work they do will be successful, and their children will not meet with disaster. I will bless them and their descendants for all time to come.

I will give them a single purpose in life: to honor me for all time, for their own good and the good of their descendants.

I will make an eternal covenant with them. I will never stop doing good things for them, and I will make them fear me with all their heart, so that they will never turn away from me.

Some people brought their babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. The disciples saw them and scolded them for doing so,

but Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

For God's promise was made to you and your children, and to all who are far away---all whom the Lord our God calls to himself."

The promises of God through his prophets are for you, and you share in the covenant which God made with your ancestors. As he said to Abraham, 'Through your descendants I will bless all the people on earth.'

If the first piece of bread is given to God, then the whole loaf is his also; and if the roots of a tree are offered to God, the branches are his also.

Because they reject the Good News, the Jews are God's enemies for the sake of you Gentiles. But because of God's choice, they are his friends because of their ancestors.

For the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to God by being united to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband. If this were not so, their children would be like pagan children; but as it is, they are acceptable to God.

I remember the sincere faith you have, the kind of faith that your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice also had. I am sure that you have it also.

and you remember that ever since you were a child, you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

LORD, I have given up my pride and turned away from my arrogance. I am not concerned with great matters or with subjects too difficult for me.

Instead, I am content and at peace. As a child lies quietly in its mother's arms, so my heart is quiet within me.

The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child.

"See that you don't despise any of these little ones. Their angels in heaven, I tell you, are always in the presence of my Father in heaven.

Jesus said, "Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

Do not be like children in your thinking, my friends; be children so far as evil is concerned, but be grown up in your thinking.

Be like newborn babies, always thirsty for the pure spiritual milk, so that by drinking it you may grow up and be saved.

They have never been known to tell lies; they are faultless.