For He has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it.

Even the stork in the heaven knows her time, [also] the turtledove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this My people knows not the judgments of the Lord.

The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?

For I desire mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.

I will write down a multitude [of commands] for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, [even] the beloved altars.

Jesus answered and said to them, "You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

You search the Scriptures, because you think [that] in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about Me.

For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

And these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all readiness, each day examining the Scriptures [to see] whether these things might be so.

For as many things as were previously written, were written for our own instruction, that through the patience and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.

and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

that the man of God may be proficient, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.

For I know that He is eternal who is about to deliver me,

which I am conscious of in myself, which my eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.

Death has prevailed and swallowed [men] up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away the reproach of [His] people from all the earth; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice; for the dew from You is healing to them; but the land of the ungodly shall perish.

And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and the Lord brought me forth by the Spirit, and set me in the midst of the plain, and it was full of human bones.

And He said to me, Son of man, will these bones live? And I said, O Lord God, [only] You know this!

Thus says the Lord to these bones: Behold, I [will] bring upon you the breath of life;

So I prophesied as [the Lord] commanded me. And it came to pass while I was prophesying, that behold, [there was] a rattling, and the bones approached each one to his joint.

And He said to me, Prophesy to the wind; prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the Lord: Come from the four winds, [O breath,] and breathe upon these dead, that they may live.

And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones have become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, that I may bring up My people from [their] graves.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.

After two days He will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before Him, and shall know [Him.]

I will deliver [them] out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death. O death, where is your punishment? O Hades, where is your sting? Comfort is hidden from My eyes.

But looking at them Jesus said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God."

Shall anything be impossible with the Lord? At the appointed time I shall return to you, and Sarah shall have a son.

O great Lord! You have made the heaven and the earth by Your great power, and with Your high and lofty arm; nothing can be hidden from You.

For with God nothing shall be impossible."

and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power

who will transform our lowly body, that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.