Much time had now been wasted, and sailing had become dangerous; the fast was already over; and Paul bade them make the best of it.✻
we are hard put to it, working with our own hands. Men revile us, and we answer with a blessing, persecute us, and we make the best of it,
And indeed, it is a defect in you at the best of times, that you should have quarrels among you at all. How is it that you do not prefer to put up with wrong, prefer to suffer loss?
I am thinking of your own interest when I say this. It is not that I would hold you in a leash; I am thinking of what is suitable for you, and how you may best attend on the Lord without distraction.
those who are hungry had best eat at home, for fear that your meeting should bring you condemnation. The other questions I will settle when I come.✻
The revelation of the Spirit is imparted to each, to make the best advantage of it.
Prize the best gifts of heaven. Meanwhile, I can shew you a way which is better than any other.✻
Was I to make you sorry? It meant bringing sorrow on those who are my own best source of comfort.
and we are best pleased when we have no power against you, and you are powerful yourselves. That is what we pray for, your perfection.
See to it that nobody repays injury with injury; you must aim always at what is best, for one another and for all around you.✻
a virtuous life is the best adornment for women who lay claim to piety.
grant you every capacity for good, to do his will. May he carry out in you the design he sees best, through Jesus Christ, to whom glory belongs throughout all ages, Amen.✻
not tyrannizing, each in his own sphere, but setting an example, as best you may, to the flock.✻
I might add to this letter, but I have thought it best not to entrust my message to paper and ink; I hope to visit you, and convey it by word of mouth, to give you happiness in full measure.
And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth:
Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.
He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two robes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver with five robes of the best:
The land of Egypt is before thee: and make them dwell in the best place, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.
But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in Egypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had commanded.
If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to feed upon that which is other men’s: he shall restore the best of whatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.