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Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter and shall not be able.

The same day, there came some of the Pharisees, saying to him: Depart, and get thee hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee.

And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.

And he sent his servant at the hour of supper to say to them that were invited, that they should come: for now all things are ready.

For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:

It is neither profitable for the land nor for the dunghill: but shall be cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee and I have never transgressed thy commandment: and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends.

But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.

And he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.

And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other: or he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of the law to fall.

And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.

And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send him to my father’s house, for I have five brethren,

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.

Doth he thank that servant for doing the things which he commanded him?

And he said to him: Arise, go thy way; for thy faith hath made thee whole.

Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within you.