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For if you want to save your own life, you will lose it; but if you lose your life for me and for the gospel, you will save it.

Do you gain anything if you win the whole world but lose your life? Of course not!

They took a quick look around but did not see anyone else; only Jesus was with them.

They obeyed his order, but among themselves they started discussing the matter, "What does this ‘rising from death' mean?"

Whenever the spirit attacks him, it throws him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth, grits his teeth, and becomes stiff all over. I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they could not."

The father at once cried out, "I do have faith, but not enough. Help me have more!"

But Jesus took the boy by the hand and helped him rise, and he stood up.

But they did not understand what this teaching meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

But they would not answer him, because on the road they had been arguing among themselves about who was the greatest.

"Whoever welcomes in my name one of these children, welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not only me but also the one who sent me."

"Salt is good; but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? "Have the salt of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another."

But in the beginning, at the time of creation, ‘God made them male and female,' as the scripture says.

and the two will become one.' So they are no longer two, but one.

Some people brought children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples scolded the people.

The disciples were shocked at these words, but Jesus went on to say, "My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!

Jesus looked straight at them and answered, "This is impossible for human beings but not for God; everything is possible for God."

But many who are now first will be last, and many who are now last will be first."

who will make fun of him, spit on him, whip him, and kill him; but three days later he will rise to life."

But I do not have the right to choose who will sit at my right and my left. It is God who will give these places to those for whom he has prepared them."

Many of the people scolded him and told him to be quiet. But he shouted even more loudly, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"