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No, I tell you. Rather, unless you turn to God from your sins, you will all die as they did!

He put his hands on her, and at once she stood upright and began to glorify God.

So he went on to say, "What is the Kingdom of God like? With what will we compare it?

Again he said, "With what will I compare the Kingdom of God?

You will cry and grind your teeth when you see Avraham, Yitz'chak, Ya‘akov and all the prophets inside the Kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside.

Moreover, people will come from the east, the west, the north and the south to sit at table in the Kingdom of God.

Look! God is abandoning your house to you! I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai !' "

On hearing this, one of the people at the table with Yeshua said to him, "How blessed are those who eat bread in the Kingdom of God!"

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who turns to God from his sins than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

No servant can be slave to two masters, for he will either hate the first and love the second, or scorn the second and be loyal to the first. You can't be a slave to both God and money."

He said to them, "You people make yourselves look righteous to others, but God knows your hearts; what people regard highly is an abomination before God!

Up to the time of Yochanan there were the Torah and the Prophets. Since then the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is pushing to get in.

One of them, as soon as he noticed that he had been healed, returned shouting praises to God,

Was no one found coming back to give glory to God except this foreigner?"

The P'rushim asked Yeshua when the Kingdom of God would come. "The Kingdom of God," he answered, "does not come with visible signs;

nor will people be able to say, ‘Look! Here it is!' or, ‘Over there!' Because, you see, the Kingdom of God is among you."

"In a certain town, there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected other people.

For a long time he refused; but after awhile, he said to himself, ‘I don't fear God, and I don't respect other people;

Now won't God grant justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Is he delaying long over them?

The Parush stood and prayed to himself, ‘O God! I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, immoral, or like this tax-collector!