²¹ because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Romans 8:18-23 RSV-CE
¹⁰ Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
¹¹ And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
Matthew 13:1-23 RSV-CE
¹⁶ Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, ¹⁷ learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1:10-17 RSV-CE
¹³ For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and have plundered their treasures; like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.
Isaiah 10:7-16 RSV-CE
¹⁰ If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals perversely and does not see the majesty of the LORD.
Isaiah 26:7-19 RSV-CE
⁴ Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: ⁵
"Go and say to Hezeki'ah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Isaiah 38:1-22 RSV-CE
¹ Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 2:1-5 RSV-CE
¹⁷ This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
¹⁸ "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Matthew 12:14-21 RSV-CE
²⁶ Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.
Romans 8:26-27 RSV-CE
³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
Matthew 13:24-43 RSV-CE
⁷ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"
Micah 6:1-8 RSV-CE
⁴² The queen of the South will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew 12:38-42 RSV-CE
¹⁹ When any one hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in his heart; this is what was sown along the path.
Matthew 13:18-23 RSV-CE
¹⁹ Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
²⁰ For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
Matthew 18:15-20 RSV-CE