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but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

and he laid on her [his] hands, and presently she was set upright, and was glorifying God.

And he said, `To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

And again he said, `To what shall I liken the reign of God?

`There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;

and they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall recline in the reign of God,

And one of those reclining with him, having heard these things, said to him, `Happy [is] he who shall eat bread in the reign of God;'

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, [is] abomination before God;

the law and the prophets [are] till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;

and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God,

There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'

And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, `The reign of God doth not come with observation;

nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.'

saying, `A certain judge was in a certain city -- God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding --

and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,

and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night -- bearing long in regard to them?

the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

`And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!