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If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Hosts, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; because when his mother, Mary, had been engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

"A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; She wouldn't be comforted, because they are no more."

he said to them, "Make room, because the young lady isn't dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, as sheep without a shepherd.

Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works were done, because they didn't repent.

Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth.

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

he will not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."

Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'

He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most assuredly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!