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Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he laid hold on him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

So his fellow-servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you.'

So when his fellow-servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.

Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

So will my heavenly Father also do to you, if you don't each forgive his brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

and said, 'For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?'

I tell you that whoever will put away his wife, except for sexual immorality, and will marry another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is put away commits adultery."

His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them, and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

He laid his hands on them, and departed there.

Jesus said to his disciples, "Most assuredly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last to the first.'

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."