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A curse is on you, Pharisees! for your desires are for the most important seats in the Synagogues and for words of respect said to you in the market-place.

A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.

And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.

A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.

So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;

So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;

A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not go in yourselves, and you got in the way of those who were going in.

And watching him, for a chance to get something from his words which might be used against him.

Are not five sparrows given in exchange for two farthings? and God has every one of them in mind.

And if anyone says a word against the Son of man, he will have forgiveness: but for him who says evil words against the Holy Spirit, there will be no forgiveness.

For the Holy Spirit will make clear to you in that very hour what to say.

But he said, Man, who made me a judge or a maker of decisions for you?

And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.

For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them.

But let your chief care be for his kingdom, and these other things will be given to you in addition.