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No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.

The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.

And one of them, seeing that he was cured, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,

There have not been found to return and give glory to God save this stranger.

And having been asked by the Pharisees, When is the kingdom of God coming? he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation;

nor shall they say, Lo here, or, Lo there; for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.

saying, There was a judge in a city, not fearing God and not respecting man:

And he would not for a time; but afterwards he said within himself, If even I fear not God and respect not man,

And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?

The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.

And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.

But Jesus calling them to [him] said, Suffer little children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.

Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

But Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, God.

But when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, he said, How difficultly shall those who have riches enter into the kingdom of God;

for it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

But he said, The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.

And immediately he saw, and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people when they saw [it] gave praise to God.

But as they were listening to these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was about to be immediately manifested.