³⁶ I tell you that on the day of judgment^(A) people will have to account^(B) for every careless^[a] word they speak.^[b]

¹⁴ The sower sows^(A) the word.^(B)

⁴⁷ I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them:^(A)

²¹ But he replied to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”^(A)

Prologue

1 In the beginning^(A) was the Word,^(B) and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.^(C)

²² So when he was raised from the dead,^(A) his disciples remembered that he had said this,^(B) and they believed the Scripture^(C) and the statement Jesus had made.

³² They said this so that Jesus’s words might be fulfilled indicating what kind of death he was going to die.^(A)

¹¹ The people here were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined^[a] the Scriptures^(A) daily to see if these things were so.

¹⁵ Be diligent to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.^(A)

¹² For the word of God is living and effective^(A) and sharper than any double-edged sword,^(B) penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.^(C)