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For if you forgive men their trespasses, your Father who is in heaven will forgive you also.

WHEN, too, you fast, be not morosely sad as the assumers of faces, for they defile their countenances so as that they may appear unto men to fast: and, Amen I say unto you, they receive their reward.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures in the earth, a place where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal:

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where no moth and no rust corrupt, and where thieves do not dig through and steal.

For where your treasure is, there also your hearts are.

No man can serve two lords; for the one he will hate, and the other he will love, or the one he will honour, and the other he will neglect: you cannot serve Aloha and riches.

WHEREFORE I say unto you, Let not your souls be anxious what you shall eat and what you shall drink, and for your bodies what you shall wear. Is not the life more excellent than food, and the body than raiment ?

For after all these things do the people of the world inquire: but your Father who is in heaven knoweth that also by you are required these all.

Be not therefore anxious for to-morrow; the morrow shall care for its own: the evil of to-day is enough for it.

For with the judgment that you judge, you shall be judged; and with the measure that you mete, it shall be measured to you.

For every one who asketh receiveth, and he who seeketh findeth; and to him who knocketh it is opened.

All therefore that you will that men shall do unto you, so also do you unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

ENTER in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and spacious the way, that conducteth to destruction; and they are many who go therein.

And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and rushed against that house, but it fell not, for its foundations were placed upon the rock.

For he taught them as one having power, and not as their scribes and the Pharishee.

And Jeshu said to him, See that thou tell no man, but go, show thyself to the priests, and offer the oblation that Musha required for their testimony.

For I also am a man under authority, and under my hand there are soldiers. I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to the other, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth.

For which is easier, to say, Forgiven are thy sins, or to say, Arise, walk ?

But Jeshu, when he heard (it), said to them, The healthful have no need for the physician, but they who are diseased [fn]

Go, learn what that is:-" I require mercy, and not sacrifice; " for I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners.