Let it be so now, it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.
- Matthew 3:15 / 4 Accounts (8)
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It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’
- Matthew 4:7 / 4 Accounts (9)
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Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’
- Matthew 4:10 / 4 Accounts (9)
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Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.
- Matthew 4:17 / 4 Accounts (11)
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Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
- Matthew 4:19 / 4 Accounts (10)
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Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
- Matthew 5:11-12 / 4 Accounts (30)
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You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
- Matthew 5:14-16 / 4 Accounts (18)
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Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 5:17-20 / 4 Accounts (84)
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You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not murder’, and ‘anyone who murders will be subject to judgement.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgement, Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca’, is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still with him on the way, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. I tell you the truth, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
- Matthew 5:21-26 / 4 Accounts (84)
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You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
- Matthew 5:27-28 / 4 Accounts (84)
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If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
- Matthew 5:29-30 / 4 Accounts (84)
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It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
- Matthew 5:31-32 / 4 Accounts (84)
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Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.’ But I tell you, Do not swear at all; either by heaven, for it is God's throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’, and your ‘No’, ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
- Matthew 5:33-37 / 4 Accounts (84)
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You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
- Matthew 5:38-42 / 4 Accounts (1)
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You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than the others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- Matthew 5:43-48 / 4 Accounts (1)
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Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men, I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- Matthew 6:1-4 / 4 Accounts (88)
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And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- Matthew 6:5-6 / 4 Accounts (79) / 4 Accounts (88)
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And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like the pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
- Matthew 6:7-15 / 4 Accounts (79)
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When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- Matthew 6:16-18 / 4 Accounts (88)
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Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:19-21 / 4 Accounts (12)
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Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ Or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
- Matthew 6:25-34 / 4 Accounts (12)
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Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
- Matthew 7:1-5 / 4 Accounts (88)
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Do not give to dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
- Matthew 7:6 / 4 Accounts (88)
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Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
- Matthew 7:7-8 / 4 Accounts (27)
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Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
- Matthew 7:9-12 / 4 Accounts (1) / 4 Accounts (27)
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Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
- Matthew 7:13-14 / 4 Accounts (36)
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Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them, Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
- Matthew 7:15-20 / 4 Accounts (17)
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I am willing, Be clean! See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.
- Matthew 8:3-4 / 4 Accounts (45)
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Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.
- Matthew 8:22 / 4 Accounts (35)
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Go!
- Matthew 8:32 / 4 Accounts (46)
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Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.
Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? Which is easier: to say, Your sins are forgiven, or to say, Get up and walk? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. Get up, take your mat and go home.
- Matthew 9:2-6 / 4 Accounts (49)
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Follow me
- Matthew 9:9 / 4 Accounts (29)
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It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
- Matthew 9:12-13 / 4 Accounts (29)
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Take heart daughter, your faith has healed you.
- Matthew 9:22 / 4 Accounts (50)
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Go away, the girl is not dead but asleep.
- Matthew 9:24 / 4 Accounts (50)
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Do you believe that I am able to do this?
According to your faith will it be done to you;
See that no one knows about this.
- Matthew 9:28-30 / 4 Accounts (55)
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The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
- Matthew 9:37-38 / 4 Accounts (39)
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Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. Do not take along any gold or silver or copper in your belts; take no bag for the journey, or extra tunic, or sandals or a staff; for the worker is worth his keep.
- Matthew 10:5-10 / 4 Accounts (40)
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Whatever town or village you enter, search for some worthy person there and stay at his house until you leave. As you enter the home, give it your greeting. If the home is deserving, let you peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgement than for that town.
- Matthew 10:11-15 / 4 Accounts (40)
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I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Be on your guard against men; they will hand you over to the local councils and flog you in their synagogues. On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
- Matthew 10:16-20 / 4 Accounts (40)
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Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
- Matthew 10:21-23 / 4 Accounts (40)
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A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the student to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebub, how much more the members of his household! So do not be afraid of them. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
- Matthew 10:24-28 / 4 Accounts (12) / 4 Accounts (40)
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Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
- Matthew 10:29-31 / 4 Accounts (12) / 4 Accounts (40)
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Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.
- Matthew 11:4-6 / 4 Accounts (17)
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Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
- Matthew 11:28-30 / 4 Accounts (25)
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If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Stretch out your hand.
- Matthew 12:11-13 / 4 Accounts (58)
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They do not need to go away.
You give them something to eat.
Bring them here to me.
- Matthew 14:16-18 / 4 Accounts (41)
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Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.
Come.
You of little faith, why did you doubt?
- Matthew 14:27-31 / 4 Accounts (43)
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And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ he is not to honor his father with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’
- Matthew 15:3-9 / 4 Accounts (60)
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Listen and understand. What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him unclean, but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean.
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Are you still so dull? Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man unclean. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man unclean; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him unclean.
- Matthew 15:10-20 / 4 Accounts (60)
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Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots. Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.
- Matthew 15:13-14 / 4 Accounts (60) / 4 Accounts (102)
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I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.
It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs.
Woman, you have great faith!
Your request is granted.
- Matthew 15:24-29 / 4 Accounts (52)
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Be careful, Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about the bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
- Matthew 16:6-11 / 4 Accounts (87)
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Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.
- Matthew 16:23 / 4 Accounts (82)
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If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.
- Matthew 16:24-28 / 4 Accounts (35)
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Get up. Don’t be afraid.
Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.
- Matthew 17:7-9 / 4 Accounts (106)
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O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.
- Matthew 17:17 / 4 Accounts (51)
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What do you think Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes - from their own sons or from others?
Then the sons are exempt, But so that we may not offend them, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.
- Matthew 17:25-27 / 4 Accounts (63)
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I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
- Matthew 18:3-6 / 4 Accounts (26)
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If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
- Matthew 18:8-9 / 4 Accounts (26)
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See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
- Matthew 18:10 / 4 Accounts (26)
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If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
- Matthew 18:15-17 / 4 Accounts (80)
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I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.
- Matthew 18:22 / 4 Accounts (80)
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Haven’t you read, that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.
- Matthew 19:4-6 / 4 Accounts (65)
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Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. For some are eunuchs because they were born that way; others were made that way by men; and others have renounced marriage because of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.
- Matthew 19:11-12 / 4 Accounts (65)
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Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.
- Matthew 19:14 / 4 Accounts (26)
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Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.
‘Do not murder’, ‘do not commit adultery’, ‘do not steal’, ‘do not give false testimony’, ‘honor your father and mother’, and ‘love your neighbor as yourself’.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
- Matthew 19:17-21 / 4 Accounts (83)
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You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave - just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
- Matthew 20:25-28 / 4 Accounts (26)
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Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, tell him that ‘the Lord needs them,’ and he will send them right away.
- Matthew 21:2-3 / 4 Accounts (109)
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May you never bear fruit again!
I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but you can also say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea’, and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
- Matthew 21:19-22 / 4 Accounts (27)
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You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax.
Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?
Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.
- Matthew 22:18-21 / 4 Accounts (67)
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‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
- Matthew 22:37-40 / 4 Accounts (2)
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The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them ‘Rabbi’.
But you are not to be called Rabbi, for you have only one Master and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth father, for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor or you to be called teacher, for you have one Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you will be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
- Matthew 23:2-12 / 4 Accounts (87)
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Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices - mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law - justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
- Matthew 23:23-24 / 4 Accounts (87)
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Woe to you, teachers of the law and the Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
- Matthew 23:25-26 / 4 Accounts (87)
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Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers! You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Snakes, progeny of vipers, how is it possible that you may escape the judgement of hell?
- Matthew 23:27-33 / 4 Accounts (87)
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Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.
- Matthew 24:32-33 / 4 Accounts (105)
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Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: if the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
- Matthew 24:42-44 / 4 Accounts (94)
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Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, The teacher says: ‘My appointment time is near. I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.’
- Matthew 26:18 / 4 Accounts (113)
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Take and eat; this is my body.
Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s kingdom.
- Matthew 26:26-29 / 4 Accounts (114)
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Sit here while I go over there and pray, My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.
- Matthew 26:36-38 / 4 Accounts (123)
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Could you men not keep watch with me for one hour? Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.
- Matthew 26:40-41 / 4 Accounts (123)
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Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go! Here comes my betrayer!
- Matthew 26:45-46 / 4 Accounts (123)
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Friend, do what you came for.
- Matthew 26:50 / 4 Accounts (123)
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Put your sword back in its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?
- Matthew 26:52-54 / 4 Accounts (123)
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Greetings, Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.
- Matthew 28:9-10 / 4 Accounts (130)
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All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
- Matthew 28:18-20 / 4 Accounts (131)
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The time has come, The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!
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Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
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Be quiet! Come out of him!
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Let us go somewhere else - to the nearby villages - so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.
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I am willing, Be clean! See that you don't tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.
- Mark 1:41-44 / 4 Accounts (45)
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Son, your sins are forgiven.
Why are you thinking these things? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven, or to say, Get up, take your mat and walk? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.
- Mark 2:5-11 / 4 Accounts (49)
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Follow me,
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Stand up in front of everyone.
Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?
Stretch out your hand.
- Mark 3:3-5 / 4 Accounts (58)
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Consider carefully what you hear, With the measure you use, it will be measured to you - and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
- Mark 4:24-25 / 4 Accounts (96)
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Let us go over to the other side.
Quiet! Be still!
Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?
- Mark 4:35-40 / 4 Accounts (43)
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Come out of this man, you evil spirit!
What is your name?
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Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.
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Who touched my clothes?
Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.
- Mark 5:30-34 / 4 Accounts (50)
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Don't be afraid; just believe.
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Why all this commotion and wailing?
The child is not dead but asleep.
Talitha koum! Little girl, I say to you, get up!
- Mark 5:39-41 / 4 Accounts (50)
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Take nothing for the journey except a staff - no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra tunic. Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them.
- Mark 6:8-11 / 4 Accounts (40)
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Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.
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You give them something to eat.
How many loaves do you have? Go and see.
- Mark 6:37-38 / 4 Accounts (41)
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Take courage, It is I. Don't be afraid.
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Listen to me, everyone, and understand this, nothing outside a man can make him unclean by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him unclean.
Are you so dull? Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him unclean? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. What comes out of a man is what makes him unclean, For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man unclean.
- Mark 7:14-23 / 4 Accounts (60)
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First let the children eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs.
For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.
- Mark 7:27-29 / 4 Accounts (52)
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Ephphatha! (Be Opened!)
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Be careful, watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.
Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don't you remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?
And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?
Do you still not understand?
- Mark 8:15-21 / 4 Accounts (87)
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Do you see anything?
Don't go into the village.
- Mark 8:23-26 / 4 Accounts (55)
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Get behind me, Satan! You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.
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If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.
- Mark 8:34-38 / 4 Accounts (35)
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What are you arguing with them about?
O unbelieving generation, how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy to me.
How long has he been like this? Everything is possible for him who believes.
You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.
This kind can come out only by prayer.
- Mark 9:16-29 / 4 Accounts (51)
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Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.
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Do not stop him, no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us. I tell you the truth, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to Christ will certainly not lose his reward.
- Mark 9:39-41 / 4 Accounts (34) / 4 Accounts (40) / 4 Accounts (86)
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And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. Everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.
- Mark 9:41-50 / 4 Accounts (26) / 4 Accounts (100)
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What did Moses command you? It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law, But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.
- Mark 10:3-9 / 4 Accounts (65)
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Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.
- Mark 10:11-12 / 4 Accounts (65)
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Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.
- Mark 10:14-15 / 4 Accounts (26)
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Why do you call me good? No one is good - except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder’, ‘do not commit adultery’, ‘do not steal’, ‘do not give false testimony’, ‘do not defraud’, ‘honor your father and mother’.
One thing you lack, Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
- Mark 10:18-21 / 4 Accounts (83)
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You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
- Mark 10:42-46 / 4 Accounts (26)
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Call him.
What do you want me to do for you?
Go, your faith has healed you.
- Mark 10:49-52 / 4 Accounts (55)
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Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’
- Mark 11:2-3 / 4 Accounts (109)
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Have faith in God, I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea’, and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
- Mark 11:22-25 / 4 Accounts (27)
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Why are you trying to trap me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.
Whose portrait is this?
And whose inscription?
Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's.
- Mark 12:15-17 / 4 Accounts (67)
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The most important one is this: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.’
- Mark 12:29-31 / 4 Accounts (2)
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Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted in the marketplaces, and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely.
- Mark 12:38-40 / 4 Accounts (87)
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Watch out that no one deceives you. Many will come in my name, claiming, I am he, and will deceive many. When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.
- Mark 13:5-8 / 4 Accounts (105)
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You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them. And the gospel must first be preached to all nations. Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
- Mark 13:9-13 / 4 Accounts (105)
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When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it does not belong - let the reader understand - then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the roof of his house go down or enter the house to take anything out. Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that this will not take place in winter, because those will be the days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now - and never to be equaled again. If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.
- Mark 13:14-20 / 4 Accounts (105)
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At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the elect - if that were possible. So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time.
- Mark 13:21-23 / 4 Accounts (105)
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Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that it is near, right at the door. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
- Mark 13:28-31 / 4 Accounts (105)
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No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the father. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.
- Mark 13:32-33 / 4 Accounts (105)
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It's like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch. Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back - whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone: Watch!
- Mark 13:34-37 / 4 Accounts (105)
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Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them at any time you want. But you will not always have me. She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.
- Mark 14:6-9 / 4 Accounts (111)
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Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. Say to the owner of the house he enters, The Teacher asks: ‘Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.
- Mark 14:13-15 / 4 Accounts (113)
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Take it; this is my body.
This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many, I tell you the truth, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God.
- Mark 14:22-25 / 4 Accounts (114)
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Sit here while I pray.
My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death, Stay here and keep watch.
- Mark 14:32-34 / 4 Accounts (123)
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Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour? Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.
Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!
- Mark 14:37-42 / 4 Accounts (123)
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*** The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have Mark 16:9-20***
Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.
- Mark 16:15-18 / 4 Accounts (131)
*** The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have Mark 16:9-20***
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It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’
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It says: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’
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Be quiet! Come out of him!
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Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.
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I am willing, Be clean! Don't tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.
- Luke 5:13-14 / 4 Accounts (45)
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Friend, your sins are forgiven.
Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’, or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins… I tell you, get up, take you mat and go home.
- Luke 5:20-24 / 4 Accounts (49)
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Follow me.
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
- Luke 5:27-32 / 4 Accounts (29)
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Get up and stand in front of everyone.
I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?
Stretch out your hand.
- Luke 6:8-10 / 4 Accounts (58)
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Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.
- Luke 6:20-23 / 4 Accounts (30)
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But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:27-31 / 4 Accounts (1) / 4 Accounts (88)
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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
- Luke 6:32-36 / 4 Accounts (1) / 4 Accounts (88)
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Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
- Luke 6:37-38 / 4 Accounts (88)
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Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye, when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
- Luke 6:41-42 / 4 Accounts (88)
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Don't cry.
Young man, I say to you, get up!
- Luke 7:13-14 / 4 Accounts (54)
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Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.
- Luke 7:22-23 / 4 Accounts (17)
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Your sins are forgiven.
Your faith has saved you; go in peace.
- Luke 7:48-50 / 4 Accounts (111)
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Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.
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Let's go over to the other side of the lake.
Where is your faith?
- Luke 8:22-25 / 4 Accounts (43)
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Return home and tell how much God has done for you.
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Who touched me?
Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.
- Luke 8:45-48 / 4 Accounts (50)
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Don't be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.
Stop wailing, She is not dead but asleep.
My child, get up!
- Luke 8:50-54 / 4 Accounts (50)
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Take nothing for the journey- no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra tunic. Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town. If people do not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave their town, as a testimony against them.
- Luke 9:3-5 / 4 Accounts (40)
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You give them something to eat.
Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.
- Luke 9:13-14 / 4 Accounts (41)
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If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
- Luke 9:23-26 / 4 Accounts (35)
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O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I stay with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.
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Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you: The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.
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Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For he who is least among you all - he is the greatest.
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Do not stop him, for whoever is not against you is for you.
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Follow me.
Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.
- Luke 9:59-60 / 4 Accounts (35)
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The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road. When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you.
Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give to you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house. When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is near you.’ But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you.’ Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near. I tell you it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
- Luke 10:2-12 / 4 Accounts (39) / 4 Accounts (40)
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I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
- Luke 10:18-20 / 4 Accounts (86)
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A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the inn-keeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?
Go and do likewise.
- Luke 10:30-37 / 4 Accounts (2) / 4 Accounts (83)
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When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’
- Luke 11:2-4 / 4 Accounts (79)
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Suppose one of you had a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.’ Then the one inside answers, ‘Don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.’ I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man's boldness he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
- Luke 11:5-13 / 4 Accounts (27)
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No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When our eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you.
- Luke 11:33-36 / 4 Accounts (18)
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Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But give what is inside the dish to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.
- Luke 11:39-41 / 4 Accounts (87)
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Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.
- Luke 11:42 / 4 Accounts (87)
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Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.
- Luke 12:1-3 / 4 Accounts (87)
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I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
- Luke 12:4-5 / 4 Accounts (12)
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Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
- Luke 12:6-7 / 4 Accounts (12)
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When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.
- Luke 12:11-12 / 4 Accounts (40)
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Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?
Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.
- Luke 12:14-15 / 4 Accounts (12)
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Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
- Luke 12:22-26 / 4 Accounts (12)
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Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!
- Luke 12:27-28 / 4 Accounts (12)
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And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
- Luke 12:29-31 / 4 Accounts (12)
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Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Luke 12:32-35 / 4 Accounts (12)
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Be dressed and ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.
It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night.
But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
- Luke 12:35-40 / 4 Accounts (94)
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Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ But he will answer, ‘I don't know you or where you come from.’
- Luke 13:24-25 / 4 Accounts (36)
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Go tell that fox, I will drive out demons and heal people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal. In any case, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day - for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!
- Luke 13:32-33 / 4 Accounts (87)
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When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.
But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
- Luke 14:8-11 / 4 Accounts (104)
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When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.
- Luke 14:12-14 / 4 Accounts (104)
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I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
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Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
- Luke 16:18 / 4 Accounts (84)
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Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea will a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. So watch yourselves.
- Luke 17:1-3 / 4 Accounts (26)
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If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, I repent, forgive him.
- Luke 17:3-4 / 4 Accounts (80)
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Suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, 'Come along now and sit down to eat'?
Would he not rather say, 'Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink'?
Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’
- Luke 17:7-10 / 4 Accounts (27)
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Go, show yourselves to the priests.
Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?
Rise and go; your faith has made you well.
- Luke 17:14-19 / 4 Accounts (45)
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Why do you call me good? No one is good - except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery’, ‘do not murder’, ‘do not steal’, ‘do not give false testimony’, ‘honor your father and mother’.
You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
- Luke 18:19-22 / 4 Accounts (83)
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What do you want me to do for you?
Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.
- Luke 18:41-42 / 4 Accounts (55)
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Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.
Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost.
- Luke 19:5-10 / 4 Accounts (29)
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Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it.’
- Luke 19:30-31 / 4 Accounts (109)
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Show me a denarius, Whose portrait and inscription are on it?
Then give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's.
- Luke 20:24-25 / 4 Accounts (67)
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Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely.
- Luke 20:46-47 / 4 Accounts (87)
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Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he’, and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them. When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.
But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name. This will result in your being witnesses to them. But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. All men will hate you because of me. But not a hair of your head will perish. By standing firm you will gain life.
- Luke 21:8-19 / 4 Accounts (105)
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When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. They will fall by the sword and be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
- Luke 21:20-24 / 4 Accounts (105)
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Look at the fig tree and all the trees. When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
- Luke 21:29-31 / 4 Accounts (105)
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Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.
- Luke 21:34-36 / 4 Accounts (105)
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Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover. As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, and say to the owner of the house, The Teacher asks: ‘Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ He will show you a large upper room, all furnished. Make preparations there.
- Luke 22:8-12 / 4 Accounts (113)
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Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.
- Luke 22:17-18 / 4 Accounts (114)
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The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
- Luke 22:25-27 / 4 Accounts (26) / 4 Accounts (114)
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Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.
- Luke 22:31-32 / 4 Accounts (114) / 4 Accounts (115)
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But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. It is written: And he was numbered with the transgressors; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment. That is enough.
- Luke 22:36-38 / 4 Accounts (114)
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Pray that you will not fall into temptation.
Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.
Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.
- Luke 22:40-46 / 4 Accounts (123)
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No more of this!
- Luke 22:51 / 4 Accounts (123)
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Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?
- Luke 23:28-31 / 4 Accounts (128)
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Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
- Luke 23:34 / 4 Accounts (128)
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This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.
- Luke 24:46-49 / 4 Accounts (131)
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What do you want?
Come, and you will see.
- John 1:38-39 / 4 Accounts (10)
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Follow me.
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Dear woman, why do you involve me? My time has not yet come.
Fill the jars with water;
Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.
- John 2:4-8 / 4 Accounts (11)
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Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!
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Go, call your husband and come back.
You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.
- John 4:16-18 / 4 Accounts (38)
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Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.
See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.
- John 5:8-14 / 4 Accounts (49)
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Have the people sit down.
Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.
- John 6:10-12 / 4 Accounts (41)
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It is I; don't be afraid.
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I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.
- John 6:26-27 / 4 Accounts (14)
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I did one miracle, and you are all astonished. Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a child on the Sabbath. Now if a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing the whole man on the Sabbath? Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment.
- John 7:21-24 / 4 Accounts (58)
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If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.
- John 7:37-38 / 4 Accounts (78)
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*** The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53-8:11***
If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.
Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?
Then neither do I condemn you, Go now and leave your life of sin.
- John 8:7-11 / 4 Accounts (64)
*** The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53-8:11***
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Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam
- John 9:7 / 4 Accounts (55) / 4 Accounts (58)
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Let us go back to Judea.
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Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.
Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe, But let us go to him.
Your brother will rise again.
I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?
Where have you laid him?
Take away the stone,
Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?
Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.
Lazarus, come out!
Take off the grave clothes and let him go.
- John 11:11-44 / 4 Accounts (56)
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Leave her alone. It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.
- John 12:7-8 / 4 Accounts (111)
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The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
- John 12:23-26 / 4 Accounts (107)
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You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. The man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light.
When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me. I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
- John 12:35-46 / 4 Accounts (108)
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What you are about to do, do quickly,
- John 13:27 / 4 Accounts (113)
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A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
- John 13:34-35 / 4 Accounts (1) / 4 Accounts (132)
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Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.
Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, Show us the Father? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask for me anything in my name, and I will do it.
If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.
If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. You heard me say, I am going away and I am coming back to you. If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. Come now; let us leave.
- John 14:1-31 / 4 Accounts (27) / 4 Accounts (116) / 4 Accounts (117) / 4 Accounts (118) / 4 Accounts (119)
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I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love hath no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit - fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command. Love each other.
If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: No servant is greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’
When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you.
Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.
In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.
Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me?’ I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying I will ask the Father on your behalf. No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.
You believe at last!
But a time is coming, and has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me. I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.
I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name - the name you gave me - so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.
- John 15:1-17:26 / 4 Accounts (1) / 4 Accounts (27) / 4 Accounts (120) / 4 Accounts (121) / 4 Accounts (122) / 4 Accounts (132)
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Who is it you want?
I am he.
Who is it you want?
I told you that I am he, If you are looking for me, then let these men go.
- John 18:4-8 / 4 Accounts (123)
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Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?
- John 18:11 / 4 Accounts (123)
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I have spoken openly to the world, I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret. Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.
- John 18:20-21 / 4 Accounts (124)
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If I said something wrong, testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?
- John 18:23 / 4 Accounts (124)
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Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’
- John 20:17 / 4 Accounts (130)
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Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.
- John 20:21 / 4 Accounts (131)
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Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.
- John 20:22-23 / 4 Accounts (131)
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Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.
- John 20:27 / 4 Accounts (131)
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Friends, haven't you any fish?
Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.
Bring some of the fish you have just caught. Come and have breakfast.
- John 21:5-12 / 4 Accounts (131)
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Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these? Feed my lambs.
Simon son of John, do you truly love me? Take care of my sheep.
Simon son of John, do you love me? Feed my sheep.
I tell you the truth, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go. Follow me!
If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.
- John 21:15-22 / 4 Accounts (131)
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