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“But you are profaning it when you say: ‘The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.’

“The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the Lord of Armies, “and my name will be feared among the nations.

“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people because you are not keeping my ways but are showing partiality in your instruction.”

But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will be able to stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire and like launderer’s bleach.

But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall.

But after he had considered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

but did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son. And he named him Jesus.

But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned in a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee.

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to remove his sandals. He himself will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”

But John tried to stop him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”

He answered, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty?

“Don’t think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.

Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother or sister

But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

“Again, you have heard that it was said to our ancestors,You must not break your oath, but you must keep your oaths to the Lord.

But I tell you, don’t take an oath at all: either by heaven, because it is God’s throne;