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Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"

and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery."

For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can."

but Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs."

When the young man heard this word, he went away grieving, for he had many possessions.

Then 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 someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."

But Jesus looked at them and said, "For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible."

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life.

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

After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?

He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left, this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

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

Jesus stood still and called them, saying, "What do you want me to do for you?"

and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise for yourself'?"

Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive."

But if we say, ‘Of human origin,' we are afraid of the crowd; for all regard John as a prophet."

For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and even after you saw it, you did not change your minds and believe him.