And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents.
And when it came to the ears of the ten, they were angry with the two brothers.
But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband.
Take away, then, his talent and give it to him who has the ten talents.
Then says Pilate to him, Do you give no attention to what their witnesses say against you?
But Jesus, giving no attention to their words, said to the ruler of the Synagogue, Have no fear, only have faith.
And Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents; one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.
And hearing this, the ten became very angry with James and John.
And when they were about to go away from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah: having no knowledge of what he was saying.
And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words.
But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.
Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?
And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.
Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.
And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance,
And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine?
Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.
And he sent for ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds and said to them, Do business with this till I come.
And the first came before him, saying, Lord, your pound has made ten pounds.
And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns.
And he said to the others who were near, Take the pound away from him, and give it to the man who has ten.
And they say to him, Lord, he has ten pounds.
But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
And a certain woman-servant, seeing him in the light of the fire, and looking at him with attention, said, This man was with him.
All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.
What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.
This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.
He said to them, Come and see. They went with him then and saw where he was living; and they were with him all that day: it was then about the tenth hour of the day.
But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.
And while they were looking up to heaven with great attention, two men came to them, in white clothing,
And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.
And he gave attention to them, hoping to get something from them.
And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.
But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:
And you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, images which you made to give worship to them: and I will take you away, farther than Babylon.
Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.
Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.
And all the people gave attention to the words which philip said, when they saw the signs which he did.
To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.
And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control.
So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.
And looking on it with attention I saw in it all sorts of beasts and birds.
After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:
And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.
And that same hour of the night, he took them, and when he had given attention to their wounds, he and all his family had baptism straight away.
Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.
And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.
And they all made an attack on Sosthenes, the ruler of the Synagogue, and gave him blows before the judge's seat; but Gallio gave no attention to these things.
Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
But Felix, who had a more detailed knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, When Lysias, the chief captain, comes down, I will give attention to your business.
And when he had been with them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the day after, he took his place on the judge's seat, and sent for Paul.
But the captain gave more attention to the master and the owner of the ship than to what Paul said.
And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,
But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;
For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.
But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.
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.
Let a man give attention not only to what is good for himself, but equally to his neighbour's good.
Now I am pleased to see that you keep me in memory in all things, and that you give attention to the teaching which was handed down from me to you.
But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.
For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.
Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.
For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;
And if any man does not give attention to what we have said in this letter, take note of that man, and keep away from him, so that he may be shamed.
Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;
Till I come, give attention to the reading of the holy Writings, to comforting the saints, and to teaching.
Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.
Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.
This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;
For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.
And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace;
Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight.
And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.
But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking.
Now at the present time, men over whom death has power take the tenth; but then it was taken by one of whom it is witnessed that he is living.
And we may say that in Abraham, even Levi, who has a right to take the tenth part, gave it;
As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.
Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.
For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.
Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.
The Holy spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;
But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,
And the blood was put on the Tent and all the holy vessels in the same way.
By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:
See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?
We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.
For the bodies of the beasts whose blood is taken into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the circle of the tents.
Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.
Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,
And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;
For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;
The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints,
Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.
And I saw, and there came to my ears the sound of a great number of angels round about the high seat and the beasts and the rulers; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.
And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: the number of them came to my ears.
And in that hour there was a great earth-shock and a tenth part of the town came to destruction; and in the earth-shock seven thousand persons came to their end: and the rest were in fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
And there was seen another sign in heaven; a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
And he took his place on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads unholy names.
And his mouth was open to say evil against God, and against his name and his Tent, even against those who are in heaven.
And after these things I saw, and the house of the tent of witness in heaven was open:
And he took me away in the spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,
And the angel said to me, Why were you surprised? I will make clear to you the secret of the woman, and of the beast on which she is seated, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which still have been given no kingdom; but they are given authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.
And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will be turned against the evil woman, and will make her waste and uncovered, and will take her flesh for food, and will have her burned with fire.
And they went up over the face of the earth, and made a circle about the tents of the saints, and the well loved town: and fire came down out of heaven for their destruction.
And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.
The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
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