³³ Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

⁹ A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

²¹ It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.

⁶ This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

⁷ Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.

¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

⁶ Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

¹⁸ But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

²³ And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁴ God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.

¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

¹⁴ Do all things without protests and arguments;

¹⁵ So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

⁹ And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;

⁶ For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

¹² I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.

¹³ However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.

² He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

²⁰ And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.

²⁴ And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:

³ And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

⁹ Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.