After a little while the men standing there came to Peter. "Of course you are one of them," they said. "After all, the way you speak gives you away!"

But Peter denied it again. A little while later the bystanders accused Peter again, "You can't deny that you are one of them, because you, too, are from Galilee."

I am sinking in deep mud, and there is no solid ground; I am out in deep water, and the waves are about to drown me.

Don't let the flood come over me; don't let me drown in the depths or sink into the grave.

On that day, from the Euphrates to the Egyptian border, the LORD will gather his people one by one, as threshing separates the wheat from the chaff.

The start of an argument is like the first break in a dam; stop it before it goes any further.

Help your relatives and they will protect you like a strong city wall, but if you quarrel with them, they will close their doors to you.

What the wise say brings them honor, but fools are destroyed by their own words.

Jesus knew what they were thinking, and so he said to them, "Any country that divides itself into groups which fight each other will not last very long. And any town or family that divides itself into groups which fight each other will fall apart.

But if you act like wild animals, hurting and harming each other, then watch out, or you will completely destroy one another.