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For all the nations of the world seek these things; and your Father knows that you need them.

"Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks.

You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour."

Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?"

for henceforth in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three;

"And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?

And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.

And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?"

"Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

At that very hour some Pharisees came, and said to him, "Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you."

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.'

For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

and at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for all is now ready.'

For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.'"

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.'

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'