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For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."

His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not."

So He asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood.

And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?"

For He taught His disciples and said to them, "The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third day."

Then He took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them,

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.

Matthew 18:6-9; Luke 17:1,2">[xr] "But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.

The Pharisees came and asked Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" testing Him.

"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the same matter.

So He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

And He took them up in His arms, laid His hands on them, and blessed them.

Matthew 19:23-30; Luke 18:24-30">[xr] Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!"

And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches [fn] to enter the kingdom of God!

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."