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so it is not will in presence of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.

`Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.

`Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask -- it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens,

`Because of this was the reign of the heavens likened to a man, a king, who did will to take reckoning with his servants,

for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive [it] -- let him receive.'

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

and Jesus said to his disciples, `Verily I say to you, that hardly shall a rich man enter into the reign of the heavens;

`For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

`The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

and ye may not call [any] your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

`And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;

and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.

`And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers of the heavens -- except my Father only;

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;

and immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens dividing, and the Spirit as a dove coming down upon him;

and a voice came out of the heavens, `Thou art My Son -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'

`And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your trespasses;

and, if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in the heavens forgive your trespasses.'

for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.