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Philemon 1:1-25 (Good News Translation)  1From Paul, a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Timothy—          To our friend and fellow worker Philemon,           2and the church that meets in your house, and our sister Apphia, and our fellow soldier Archippus:           3May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.           4Brother Philemon, every time I pray, I mention you and give thanks to my God.           5For I hear of your love for all of God's people and the faith you have in the Lord Jesus.           6My prayer is that our fellowship with you as believers will bring about a deeper understanding of every blessing which we have in our life in union with Christ.           7Your love, dear brother, has brought me great joy and much encouragement! You have cheered the hearts of all of God's people.           8For this reason I could be bold enough, as your brother in Christ, to order you to do what should be done.     ...

John 10:1-21 (Good News Translation)   1Jesus said,          "I am telling you the truth: the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.           2The man who goes in through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.           3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him; the sheep hear his voice as he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out.           4When he has brought them out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.           5They will not follow someone else; instead, they will run away from such a person, because they do not know his voice.          "           6Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he meant.           7So Jesus said again,          "I am telling you the truth: I am the gate for the sheep.           8All others who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.           9I am the ga...

John 8:1-20 (Good News Translation)  1Then everyone went home, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.           2Early the next morning he went back to the Temple. All the people gathered around him, and he sat down and began to teach them.           3The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees brought in a woman who had been caught committing adultery, and they made her stand before them all.           4"Teacher," they said to Jesus,          "this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.           5In our Law Moses commanded that such a woman must be stoned to death. Now, what do you say?          "           6They said this to trap Jesus, so that they could accuse him. But he bent over and wrote on the ground with his finger.           7As they stood there asking him questions, he straightened up and said to them,          "Whichever one of you has committed no sin may throw the first stone at her."           8Then he bent over again...

Luke 15:11-32 (Good News Translation)  11Jesus went on to say,          "There was once a man who had two sons.           12The younger one said to him,          "Father, give me my share of the property now." So the man divided his property between his two sons.           13After a few days the younger son sold his part of the property and left home with the money. He went to a country far away, where he wasted his money in reckless living.           14He spent everything he had. Then a severe famine spread over that country, and he was left without a thing.           15So he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him out to his farm to take care of the pigs.           16He wished he could fill himself with the bean pods the pigs ate, but no one gave him anything to eat.           17At last he came to his senses and said,          'All my father's hired workers have more than they can eat, and here I am about to starve!           18I...

Luke 14:1-14 (Good News Translation)  1One Sabbath Jesus went to eat a meal at the home of one of the leading Pharisees; and people were watching Jesus closely.           2A man whose legs and arms were swollen came to Jesus,           3and Jesus spoke up and asked the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees,          "Does our Law allow healing on the Sabbath or not?"           4But they would not say a thing. Jesus took the man, healed him, and sent him away.           5Then he said to them,          "If any one of you had a child or an ox that happened to fall in a well on a Sabbath, would you not pull it out at once on the Sabbath itself"           6But they were not able to answer him about this.           7Jesus noticed how some of the guests were choosing the best places, so he told this parable to all of them:           8"When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place. It could happen that someone more important than y...

Matthew 18:21-35 (Good News Translation)           21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked,          "Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him? Seven times?"           22"No, not seven times," answered Jesus,          "but seventy times seven,           23because the Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a king who decided to check on his servants' accounts.           24He had just begun to do so when one of them was brought in who owed him millions of dollars.           25The servant did not have enough to pay his debt, so the king ordered him to be sold as a slave, with his wife and his children and all that he had, in order to pay the debt.           26The servant fell on his knees before the king.          "Be patient with me," he begged,          "and I will pay you everything!"           27The king felt sorry for him, so he forgave him the debt and let him go.           28T...

Jeremiah 31:23-40 (Good News Translation)  23The          LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says,          "When I restore the people to their land, they will once again say in the land of Judah and in its towns,                           'May the              LORD bless the sacred hill               of Jerusalem,             the holy place where he lives.'               24People will live in Judah and in all its towns, and there will be farmers, and shepherds with their flocks.           25I will refresh those who are weary and will satisfy with food everyone who is weak from hunger.           26So then, people will say,          "I went to sleep and woke up refreshed."           27I, the          LORD, say that the time is coming when I will fill the land of Israel and Judah with people and animals.           28And just as I took care to uproot, to pull down, to overthrow, to destroy, and to demolish them, so I will take care to plant them and to build the...