Wake up and weep, you drunkards; cry, you wine-drinkers; the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed.

The captain found him there and said to him, "What are you doing asleep? Get up and pray to your god for help. Maybe he will feel sorry for us and spare our lives."

You must do this, because you know that the time has come for you to wake up from your sleep. For the moment when we will be saved is closer now than it was when we first believed.

for anything that is clearly revealed becomes light. That is why it is said, "Wake up, sleeper, and rise from death, and Christ will shine on you."

Tremble with fear and stop sinning; think deeply about this, when you lie in silence on your beds.

I keep your law in my heart, so that I will not sin against you.

Afterward, Jesus found him in the Temple and said, "Listen, you are well now; so stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."

"No one, sir," she answered. "Well, then," Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, but do not sin again."]

But not everyone knows this truth. Some people have been so used to idols that to this day when they eat such food they still think of it as food that belongs to an idol; their conscience is weak, and they feel they are defiled by the food.

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God.

Shame on you! Surely there is at least one wise person in your fellowship who can settle a dispute between fellow Christians.

There is much we have to say about this matter, but it is hard to explain to you, because you are so slow to understand.

There has been enough time for you to be teachers---yet you still need someone to teach you the first lessons of God's message. Instead of eating solid food, you still have to drink milk.