And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone;
And, sailing near the side of a small island named Cauda, we were able, though it was hard work, to make the ship's boat safe:
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.
So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.
See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.
For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the gentiles have come in;
Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.
Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.
But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;
And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;
If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.
Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.
But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).
But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.
Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;
In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;
Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.
In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.
Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.
And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:
In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.
After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,
Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.
For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;
Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?
And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.
I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;
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