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All of them are evil. So the Lord is not happy with the young men, and he will not show mercy to their widows and orphans. That is because they are evil hypocrites. They tell lies. The Lord has punished them, but he is not finished yet. He is still angry, and his arm is raised to continue punishing his people.

"In the beginning, I told you what would happen in the end. A long time ago, I told you things that have not happened yet. When I plan something, it happens. I do whatever I want to do.

We had all wandered away like sheep. We had gone our own way. And yet the Lord put all our guilt on him.

At that time Jeremiah had not yet been put into prison, so he was free to go anywhere he wanted.

"Damascus is a happy city. The people have not left that ‘fun city' yet.

This is what the Lord All-Powerful said, "The people say it is not yet the right time to build the Lord 's Temple."

Your seed for planting is still in the barn. And look at the vines, the fig trees, and the pomegranate and olive trees. They have not yet produced any fruit. But beginning today, I will bless you.'"

"When someone sews a patch over a hole in an old coat, they never use a piece of cloth that is not yet shrunk. If they do, the patch will shrink and pull away from the coat. Then the hole will be worse.

Jesus answered, "Dear woman, why are you telling me this? It is not yet time for me to begin my work."

It was dark now, and Jesus had not yet come back to them. They got into a boat and started going across the lake to Capernaum.

Jesus said to them, "The right time for me has not yet come, but any time is right for you to go.

So you go to the festival. I will not go now, because the right time for me has not yet come."

When Jesus said this, the people tried to grab him. But no one was able even to touch him, because the right time for him had not yet come.

Jesus was talking about the Spirit. The Spirit had not yet been given to people, because Jesus had not yet been raised to glory. But later, those who believed in Jesus would receive the Spirit.

Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the Temple area, near the room where the Temple offerings were kept. But no one arrested him, because the right time for him had not yet come.

He had not yet come into the village. He was still at the place where Martha met him.

(These followers did not yet understand from the Scriptures that Jesus must rise from death.)

Jesus said to her, "You don't need to hold on to me! I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my followers and tell them this: ‘I am going back to my Father and your Father. I am going back to my God and your God.'"

These people had been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, but the Holy Spirit had not yet come down on any of them. This is why Peter and John prayed.

As the Scriptures say, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is true before God, the one Abraham believed—the God who gives life to the dead and speaks of things that don't yet exist as if they are real.