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But after he had spent it all, a severe famine arose throughout that country, and he began to feel the pinch.

He longed to fill his stomach with the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him any.

So he got up and started back to his father. "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran and threw his arms around him and kissed him warmly.

but his father said to his slaves, ‘Quick, bring out a robe, the best one, and put it on him; and put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet;

For this son of mine was dead, but now he's alive again! He was lost, but now he has been found!' And they began celebrating.

But the older son became angry and refused to go inside. "So his father came out and pleaded with him.

‘Look,' the son answered, ‘I have worked for you all these years, and I have never disobeyed your orders. But you have never even given me a young goat, so that I could celebrate with my friends.

We had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead but has come back to life — he was lost but has been found.'"

He said to them, "You people make yourselves look righteous to others, but God knows your hearts; what people regard highly is an abomination before God!

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter in the Torah to become void.

He would have been glad to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table; but instead, even the dogs would come and lick his sores.

However, Avraham said, ‘Son, remember that when you were alive, you got the good things while he got the bad; but now he gets his consolation here, while you are the one in agony.

But Avraham said, ‘They have Moshe and the Prophets; they should listen to them.'

But he replied, ‘If they won't listen to Moshe and the Prophets, they won't be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!'"

Yeshua said to his talmidim, "It is impossible that snares will not be set. But woe to the person who sets them!

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

But first he must endure horrible suffering and be rejected by this generation.

but the day Lot left S'dom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Whoever aims at preserving his own life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will stay alive.

For a long time he refused; but after awhile, he said to himself, ‘I don't fear God, and I don't respect other people;