3We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,Log in to add notes
4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,Log in to add notes
5For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;Log in to add notes
6Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:Log in to add notes
1And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.Log in to add notes
2And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.Log in to add notes
3And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?Log in to add notes
4And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;Log in to add notes
5And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?Log in to add notes
6And they could not answer him again to these things.Log in to add notes
7And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,Log in to add notes
8When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;Log in to add notes
9And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.Log in to add notes
10But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.Log in to add notes
11For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.Log in to add notes