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For what will it benefit someone if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will anyone give in exchange for his life?

For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father,

Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it’s good for us to be here. I will set up three shelters here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to fall away—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.

Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses will inevitably come, but woe to that person by whom the offense comes.

If your hand or your foot causes you to fall away, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.

And if your eye causes you to fall away, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire.

[For the Son of Man has come to save the lost.]

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.”

“For this reason, the kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

Some Pharisees approached him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?”

and he also said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, there are eunuchs who were made by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way because of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept it should accept it.”

Then children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.

Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Then Peter responded to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you. So what will there be for us?”

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached him with her sons. She knelt down to ask him for something.