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But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

"But woe to you Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.

"And I tell you, every one who acknowledges me before men, the Son of man also will acknowledge before the angels of God;

but he who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

But if God so clothes the grass which is alive in the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith!

And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and she praised God.

He said therefore, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?

And again he said, "To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?

There you will weep and gnash your teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves thrust out.

And men will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit at table in the kingdom of God.

When one of those who sat at table with him heard this, he said to him, "Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!"

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

But he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

"The law and the prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it violently.