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.

He looked at the people sitting around him and said, "Look! Here are my mother and my brothers!

The Lord turned around and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered that the Lord had said to him, "Before the rooster crows tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me."

"Do not bear a grudge against others, but settle your differences with them, so that you will not commit a sin because of them.

But David said to Abishai and his brother Joab, "Who asked your opinion? Are you going to give me trouble? I am the one who is king of Israel now, and no Israelite will be put to death today."

Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness, but I will never accept honor from evil people, because I am always praying against their evil deeds.

Never correct conceited people; they will hate you for it. But if you correct the wise, they will respect you.

Anything you say to the wise will make them wiser. Whatever you tell the righteous will add to their knowledge.

But Jesus did not say a word to her. His disciples came to him and begged him, "Send her away! She is following us and making all this noise!"

Jesus turned and rebuked them.

Rebuke publicly all those who commit sins, so that the rest may be afraid.

(SEE 1:12)

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.

The snake replied, "That's not true; you will not die.

The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it.

Job answered, "You are talking nonsense! When God sends us something good, we welcome it. How can we complain when he sends us trouble?" Even in all this suffering Job said nothing against God.

Then Jesus answered, "Go away, Satan! The scripture says, 'Worship the Lord your God and serve only him!' "

Jesus answered, "The scripture says, 'Worship the Lord your God and serve only him!' "

you are to hand this man over to Satan for his body to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

"So do not start worrying: 'Where will my food come from? or my drink? or my clothes?'

(These are the things the pagans are always concerned about.) Your Father in heaven knows that you need all these things.

Those who live as their human nature tells them to, have their minds controlled by what human nature wants. Those who live as the Spirit tells them to, have their minds controlled by what the Spirit wants.

And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God's law, and in fact they cannot obey it.

They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world.

Such wisdom does not come down from heaven; it belongs to the world, it is unspiritual and demonic.

But the wisdom from above is pure first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle, and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deeds; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy.

Since Christ suffered physically, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had; because whoever suffers physically is no longer involved with sin.

Do not love the world or anything that belongs to the world. If you love the world, you do not love the Father.