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Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

"So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.

And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way.

And he said to them, "Go." So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters.

Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."

"Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

"So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,

And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"—so that they might accuse him.

Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw.

For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.