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But he answered his father, 'Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!'

But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'"

So He said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

But Abraham answered, 'Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are left to suffer.

But Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let your brothers listen to them.'

'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone is sent to them from the dead, they will repent.'

Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

Then He said to the disciples, "The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, 'Even though I do not fear God or respect men,

But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner!'

I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

But Jesus called the children to Him and said, "Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

But when the ruler heard this, he became very sad, because he was extremely wealthy.

But Jesus said, "What is impossible with man is possible with God."

But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.