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It is God who clothes the wild grass—grass that is here today and gone tomorrow, burned up in the oven. Won't he be all the more sure to clothe you? What little faith you have!

When Jesus heard this, he was surprised and said to the people following him, "I tell you, I have never found anyone in Israel with faith like this.

"Why are you so frightened?" Jesus answered. "What little faith you have!" Then he got up and ordered the winds and the waves to stop, and there was a great calm.

where some people brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a bed. When Jesus saw how much faith they had, he said to the paralyzed man, "Courage, my son! Your sins are forgiven."

Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, "Courage, my daughter! Your faith has made you well." At that very moment the woman became well.

Because they did not have faith, he did not perform many miracles there.

At once Jesus reached out and grabbed hold of him and said, "What little faith you have! Why did you doubt?"

So Jesus answered her, "You are a woman of great faith! What you want will be done for you." And at that very moment her daughter was healed.

Jesus knew what they were saying, so he asked them, "Why are you discussing among yourselves about not having any bread? What little faith you have!

"It was because you do not have enough faith," answered Jesus. "I assure you that if you have faith as big as a mustard seed, you can say to this hill, ‘Go from here to there!' and it will go. You could do anything!"

"If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose his faith in me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be drowned in the deep sea.

How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen—but how terrible for the one who causes them!

"If your hand or your foot makes you lose your faith, cut it off and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life without a hand or a foot than to keep both hands and both feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.

And if your eye makes you lose your faith, take it out and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life with only one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

Many will give up their faith at that time; they will betray one another and hate one another.

Seeing how much faith they had, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "My son, your sins are forgiven."

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Why are you frightened? Do you still have no faith?"

Jesus said to her, "My daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your trouble."

He was greatly surprised, because the people did not have faith. Then Jesus went to the villages around there, teaching the people.

"Yes," said Jesus, "if you yourself can! Everything is possible for the person who has faith."