| Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; | |
| but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. | |
| I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, | |
| hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints, | |
| for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia. | |
| Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service. | |
| But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. | |
| Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. | |
| For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. | |
| But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” | |
| “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?” | |
| The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. | |
| For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, | |
| nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. | |
| Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?” | |
| Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him. | |
| If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. | |
| But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” | |
| There was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder. | |
| The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them. | |
| Those who went in front and those who followed cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! | |
| Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” | |
| Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, | |
| but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. | |