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So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God."

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

"But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

But if that slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,' and if he begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

That slave who knew what his master wanted, but did not prepare himself or do what was wanted, will receive a severe beating.

But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.

Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did.

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did."

If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.'"

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day."

But the Lord answered him and said, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water?

But he will say, ‘I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers!'

But they were silent. So Jesus took him and healed him, and sent him away.

But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.

But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it; please accept my regrets.'

"Salt is good; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored?

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many of my father's hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger!