196 questions on this theme across 17 books
“Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?”
“Was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country?”
“Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works?”
“For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?”
“Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?”
“Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man?”
“Why speakest thou unto them in parables?”
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
“How think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?”
“Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times?”
“Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?”
“Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
“Which?”
“What lack I yet?”
“Who then can be saved?”
“What shall we have therefore?”
“Why stand ye here all the day idle?”
“Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?”
“Whether of them twain did the will of his father?”
“Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?”
“I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?”
“But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?”
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
“Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only?”
“Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?”
“How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?”
“Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?”
“Who touched my clothes?”
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
“Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
“Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
“Have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?”
“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
“Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
“Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?”
“Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?”
“Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?”
“Seest thou this woman?”
“Who is this that forgiveth sins also?”
“What might this parable be?”
“Who touched me? Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?”
“For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?”
“Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?”
“Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
“What is written in the law? How readest thou?”
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”
“And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?”
“Lord, are there few that be saved?”
“What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?”
“Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?”
“What these things meant”
“But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?”
“And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?”
“Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him?”
“Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?”
“There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger”
“Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
“Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?”
“How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?”
“How can these things be?”
“Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?”
“If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?”
“How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria?”
“Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?”
“Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest?”
“Wilt thou be made whole?”
“What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?”
“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
“Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?”
“We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?”
“Dost thou believe on the Son of God?”
“Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?”
“Believest thou this?”
“Lord, dost thou wash my feet?”
“Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?”
“Whom seek ye?”
“The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?”
“Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?”
“Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?”
“Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Lovest thou me?”
“And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”
“Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
“Who made thee a ruler and a judge?”
“Understandest thou what thou readest?”
“How can I, except some man should guide me?”
“What doth hinder me to be baptized?”
“Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”
“Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
“Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?”
“What is it, Lord?”
“What is the cause wherefore ye are come?”
“I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?”
“Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?”
“What was I, that I could withstand God?”
“Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?”
“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
“Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?”
“Unto what then were ye baptized?”
“What shall I do, LORD?”
“And now why tarriest thou?”
“Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?”
“Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?”
“And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come?”
“What then? Are we better than they?”
“Where is boasting then? By what law? Of works?”
“Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles?”
“Do we then make void the law through faith?”
“What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?”
“For what saith the scripture?”
“Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also?”
“How was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?”
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?”
“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?”
“What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?”
“Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?”
“Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”
“For what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?”
“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”
“Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?”
“Who is he that condemneth?”
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
“Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”
“What shall we say then?”
“Wherefore?”
“Who shall ascend into heaven?”
“Who shall descend into the deep?”
“But what saith it?”
“How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?”
“And how shall they preach, except they be sent?”
“Lord, who hath believed our report?”
“Have they not heard?”
“Did not Israel know?”
“Hath God cast away his people?”
“But what saith the answer of God unto him?”
“What then?”
“Have they stumbled that they should fall?”
“Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?”
“For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?”
“For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?”
“Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?”
“Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?”
“For who maketh thee to differ from another? What hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?”
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?”
“What knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?”
“Is any man called being circumcised? Is any called in uncircumcision?”
“Art thou called being a servant?”
“And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?”
“If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?”
“What is my reward then?”
“The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?”
“If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?”
“If Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?”
“Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?”
“How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?”
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
“And who is sufficient for these things?”
“How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?”
“Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”
“If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?”
“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin?”
“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?”
“Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
“Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
“Have ye suffered so many things in vain?”
“He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
“Wherefore then serveth the law?”
“Is the law then against the promises of God?”
“But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?”
“Where is then the blessedness ye spake of?”
“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?”
“Nevertheless what saith the scripture?”
“Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?”
“And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution?”
“If ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances”
“After the commandments and doctrines of men?”
“How much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?”
“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?”
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation”
“God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?”
“And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?”
“If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?”
“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
“For then would they not have ceased to be offered?”
“Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”
“Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?”
“What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?”
“What doth it profit?”
“But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?”
“Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?”
“Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?”
“Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?”
“Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?”
“If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
“What are these which are arrayed in white robes? And whence came they?”