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For I am the LORD, I change not; but you sons of Jacob have not departed from your iniquities.

Even from the days of your fathers you have gone astray from my ordinances and have not obeyed them. Return to me and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, How shall we return?

Will a man defraud God as you have defrauded me? But you say, How have we defrauded thee? In tithes and offerings.

But for you who revere my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing upon his lips; and you shall go forth and leap for joy like the calves of the herd.

But Joseph her husband was a pious man, and did not wish to make it public; so hewas thinking of divorcing her secretly.

But when Herod the king heard it, he trembled, and all Jerusalem with him.

But when he heard that Archelaus had become king over Judaea, in the place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there; and it was revealed to him in a dream to go to the land of Galilee.

But when he saw a great many of the Pharisees and Sadducees who were coming to be baptized, he said to them, O offspring of scorpions, who has warned you to escape from the anger which is to come?

I am just baptizing you with water for repentance; but he who is coming after me is greater than I, the one even whose shoes I am not worthy to remove; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

But John tried to stop him, and said, I need to be baptized by you, and yet have you come to me?

But Jesus answered and said to him, Permit now, for this is necessary for us so that all righteousness may be fulfilled; and then he permitted him.

So he fasted forty days and forty nights; but at last he was hungry.

But he answered and said, It is written, that it is not by bread alone that man can live, but by every word which comes from the mouth of God.

You are indeed the salt of the earth; but if the salt should lose its savor, with what could it be salted? It would not be worth anything, but to be thrown outside and to be trodden down by men.

Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lamp holder, so it gives light to all who are in the house.

Do not expect that I have come to weaken the law or the prophets; I have not come to weaken, but to fulfil.

Whoever therefore tries to weaken even one of these smallest commandments, and teaches men so, he shall be regarded as small in the kingdom of heaven; but anyone who observes and teaches them, he shall be regarded as great in the kingdom of heaven.

But I say to you, that whoever becomes angry with his brother for no reason, is guilty before the court: and whoever should say to his brother, Raca (which means, I spit on you) is guilty before the congregation; and whoever says to his brother, you are a nurse maid, is condemned to hell fire.

But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman with the desire to covet her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

But I say to you, that whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is separated but not divorced, commits adultery.