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Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of 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 else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

"The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.

And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God,

Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?"

Genesis 6:5-8:22; 19:12-14">[xr] Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation;

nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' [fn] For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."

saying: "There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man.

And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, "Though I do not fear God nor regard man,

And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, "God, I thank You that I am not like other men--extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, "God, be merciful to me a sinner!'

But Jesus called them to Him and said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.

Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it."

So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.

Matthew 19:23-30; Mark 10:23-31">[xr] And when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, He said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!

For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

But He said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God."

So He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,