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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.

So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

But he answered them, "You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down."

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.

But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

"But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,'

but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.'

But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.'

But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.'

But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.

But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?

For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.