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"But on coming to himself he said, "`How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!

"So he rose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and pitied him, and ran and threw his arms round his neck and kissed him tenderly.

"But the father said to his servants, "`Fetch a good coat quickly--the best one--and put it on him; and bring a ring for his finger and shoes for his feet.

"Then he was angry and would not go in. But his father came out and entreated him.

but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat calf for him.'

"But I charge you, so to use the wealth which is ever tempting to dishonesty as to win friends who, when it fails, shall welcome you to the tents that never perish.

"You are they," He said to them, "who boast of their own goodness before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.

But it is easier for earth and sky to pass away than for one smallest detail of the Law to fall to the ground.

"But in course of time the beggar died; and he was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and had a funeral.

"`Remember, my child,' said Abraham, `that you had all your good things during your lifetime, and that Lazarus in like manner had his bad things. But, now and here, he is receiving consolation and you are in agony.

"`No, father Abraham,' he pleaded; `but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!

But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, `Come at once and take your place at table,'

"Were not all ten made clean?" Jesus asked; "but where are the nine?

Then, turning to His disciples, He said, "There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one.

But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation.

but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all.

Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

"For a time he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, "`Though I have neither reverence for God nor respect for man,

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not so much as lift his eyes to Heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "`O God, be reconciled to me, sinner that I am.'