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For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, because men seek the law from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept the ordinances, but have been partial in the law.

And this is another thing that you have done: you have covered the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with groaning, because he does not regard your offering any more or accept it with good will at your hands.

And if you say, For what reason? Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.

While he was considering this, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said to him, O, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take your wife Mary, because he that is to be born of her is of the Holy Spirit.

A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and wailing exceedingly, Rachel weeping for her sons, and she would not be comforted, because they could not be brought back.

But I say to you, never swear; neither by heaven, because it is God''s throne;

Neither shall you swear by your own head, because you cannot create in it a single black or white hair.

And when you pray, do not repeat your words like the pagans, for they think that because of much talking they will be heard.

And do not let us enter into temptation, but deliver us from error. Because thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

And the rain came down, and the rivers overflowed, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house; but it did not fall down, because its foundations were laid upon a rock.

But when the crowds saw it, they were frightened, and they glorified God, because he had given such power as this to men.

When Jesus saw the multitudes, he had compassion on them, because they were tired out and scattered, like sheep which have no shepherd.

And you will be hated by everybody because of my name; but he who endures until the end shall live.

At that time, Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O my Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the men of understanding, and you have revealed them to children.

Other fell upon the rock, where there was not sufficient soil; and it sprang up earlier because the ground was not deep enough;

But when the sun shone, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it dried up;

He answered and said to them, Because to you it is granted to know the mystery of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not granted to them.

This is the reason I speak to them in figures, because they see and yet cannot perceive; and they hear and yet do not listen, nor do they understand.

But it has no root in him, except for a while; and when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he immediately stumbles.