And in the same manner as rain and snow descend from heaven, and no longer return there, but soak the earth, and water it, and cause it to bloom and to provide seed to the sower and bread to the hungry,
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so also will my word be, which will go forth from my mouth. It will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish whatever I will, and it will prosper in the tasks for which I sent it.
Matthew 6: 7- 15
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And when praying, do not choose many words, as the pagans do. For they think that by their excess of words they might be heeded.
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Therefore, do not choose to imitate them. For your Father knows what your needs may be, even before you ask him.
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Therefore, you shall pray in this way: Our Father, who is in heaven: May your name be kept holy.
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May your kingdom come. May your will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth.
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Give us this day our life-sustaining bread.
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And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
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And lead us not into temptation. But free us from evil. Amen.
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For if you will forgive men their sins, your heavenly Father also will forgive you your offenses.
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But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your sins.
Speak to the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
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You shall not steal. You shall not lie. Neither shall anyone deceive his neighbor.
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You shall not commit perjury in my name, nor shall you pollute the name of your God. I am the Lord.
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You shall not slander your neighbor, nor shall you oppress him by violence. The wages of a hired hand, you shall not delay with you until tomorrow.
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You shall not speak evil of the deaf, nor shall you place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear the Lord your God, for I am the Lord.
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You shall not do what is unjust, nor shall you judge unjustly. You shall not consider the reputation of the poor, nor shall you honor the countenance of the powerful. Judge your neighbor justly.
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You shall not be a detractor, nor a whisperer, among the people. You shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am the Lord.
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You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but reprove him openly, lest you have sin over him.
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Do not seek revenge, neither should you be mindful of the injury of your fellow citizens. You shall love your friend as yourself. I am the Lord.
Matthew 25: 31- 46
25:31 But when the Son of man will have arrived in his majesty, and all the Angels with him, then he will sit upon the seat of his majesty.
25:32 And all the nations shall be gathered together before him. And he shall separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
25:33 And he shall station the sheep, indeed, on his right, but the goats on his left.
25:34 Then the King shall say to those who will be on his right: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father. Possess the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
25:35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;
25:36 naked, and you covered me; sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.’
25:37 Then the just will answer him, saying: ‘Lord, when have we see you hungry, and fed you; thirsty, and given you drink?
25:38 And when have we seen you a stranger, and taken you in? Or naked, and covered you?
25:39 Or when did we see you sick, or in prison, and visit to you?’
25:40 And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me.’
25:41 Then he shall also say, to those who will be on his left: ‘Depart from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.
25:42 For I was hungry, and you did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and you did not give me to drink;
25:43 I was a stranger and you did not take me in; naked, and you did not cover me; sick and in prison, and you did not visit me.’
25:44 Then they will also answer him, saying: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?’
25:45 Then he shall respond to them by saying: ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did not do it to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.’
25:46 And these shall go into eternal punishment, but the just shall go into eternal life.”
And the priest, taking up the basket from your hand, shall place it before the altar of the Lord your God.
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And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: ‘The Syrian pursued my father, who descended into Egypt, and he sojourned there in a very small number, and he increased into a great and strong nation and into an innumerable multitude.
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And the Egyptians afflicted us, and they persecuted us, imposing upon us the most grievous burdens.
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And we cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers. He heard us, and he looked with favor upon our humiliation, and hardship, and distress.
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And he led us away from Egypt, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, with a mighty terror, with signs and wonders.
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And he led us into this place, and he delivered to us the land flowing with milk and honey.
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And because of this, I now offer the first fruits of the land which the Lord has given to me.’ And you shall leave them in the sight of the Lord your God, and you shall adore the Lord your God.
Romans 10: 8- 13
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But what does Scripture say? “The word is near, in your mouth and in your heart.” This is the word of faith, which we are preaching.
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For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and if you believe in your heart that God has raised him up from the dead, you shall be saved.
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For with the heart, we believe unto justice; but with the mouth, confession is unto salvation.
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For Scripture says: “All those who believe in him shall not be confounded.”
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For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord is over all, richly in all who call upon him.
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For all those who have called upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Luke 4: 1- 13
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And Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. And he was urged by the Spirit into the wilderness
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for forty days, and he was tested by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were completed, he was hungry.
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Then the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, speak to this stone, so that it may be made into bread.”
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And Jesus answered him, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ”
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And the devil led him onto a high mountain, and he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,
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and he said to him: “To you, I will give all this power, and its glory. For they have been handed over to me, and I give them to whomever I wish.
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Therefore, if you will worship before me, all will be yours.”
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And in response, Jesus said to him: “It is written: ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him alone.’ ”
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And he brought him to Jerusalem, and he set him on the parapet of the temple, and he said to him: “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here.
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For it is written that he has given his Angels charge over you, so that they may guard you,
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and so that they may take you into their hands, lest perhaps you may hurt your foot against a stone.”
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And in response, Jesus said to him, “It is said: ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”
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And when all the temptation was completed, the devil withdrew from him, until a time.
Then you will call, and the Lord will heed; you will cry out, and he will say, “Here I am,” if you take away the chains from your midst, and cease to point your finger and to speak what is not beneficial.
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When you pour out your life for the hungry, and you satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise up in darkness, and your darkness will be like the midday.
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And the Lord will give you rest continually, and he will fill your soul with splendor, and he will free your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and like a fountain of water whose waters will not fail.
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And places that have been desolate for ages will be built up by you. You will raise a foundation for generation after generation. And you will be called the repairer of hedges, who turns the roadways into quiet places.
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If you restrain your foot on the Sabbath, from doing your own will on my holy day, and if you call the Sabbath delightful, and the Holy of the Lord glorious, and if you glorify him, while you do not act according to your own ways, and your own will is not found, not even to speak a word,
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then you will find delight in the Lord, and I will take you up, above the heights of the earth, and I will nourish you with the inheritance of Jacob, your father. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Luke 5: 27- 32
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And after these things, he went out, and he saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the customs office. And he said to him, “Follow me.”
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And leaving behind everything, rising up, he followed him.
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And Levi made a great feast for him in his own house. And there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others, who were sitting at table with them.
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But the Pharisees and scribes were murmuring, saying to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
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And responding, Jesus said to them: “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who have maladies.
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I have not come to call the just, but sinners to repentance.”
Cry out! Cease not! Exalt your voice like a trumpet, and announce to my people their wicked acts, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
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For they also seek me, from day to day, and they are willing to know my ways, like a nation which has done justice and has not abandoned the judgment of their God. They petition me for judgments of justice. They are willing to draw near to God.
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“Why have we fasted, and you have not taken notice? Why have we humbled our souls, and you have not acknowledged it?” Behold, in the day of your fasting, your own will is found, and you petition for payment from all your debtors.
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Behold, you fast with strife and contention, and you strike with the fist impiously. Do not choose to fast as you have done even to this day. Then your outcry will be heard on high.
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Is this a fast such as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day, to contort his head in a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? Should you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord?
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Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden.
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Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the destitute and the homeless into your house. When you see someone naked, cover him, and do not despise your own flesh.
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Then your light will break forth like the morning, and your health will improve quickly, and your justice will go before your face, and the glory of the Lord will gather you up.
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Then you will call, and the Lord will heed; you will cry out, and he will say, “Here I am,” if you take away the chains from your midst, and cease to point your finger and to speak what is not beneficial.
Matthew 9: 14- 15
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Then the disciples of John drew near to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast frequently, but your disciples do not fast?”
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And Jesus said to them: “How can the sons of the groom mourn, while the groom is still with them? But the days will arrive when the groom will be taken away from them. And then they shall fast.
Consider what I have set forth in your sight this day, life and good, or, on the opposite side, death and evil,
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so that you may love the Lord your God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and so that you may live, and he may multiply you and bless you in the land, which you shall enter in order to possess.
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But if your heart will have been turned aside, so that you are not willing to listen, and, having been deceived by error, you adore strange gods and serve them,
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then I predict to you this day that you will perish, and you will remain for only a short time in the land, for which you shall cross the Jordan, and which you shall enter in order to possess.
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I call heaven and earth as witnesses this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your offspring may live,
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and so that you may love the Lord your God, and obey his voice, and cling to him, (for he is your life and the length of your days) and so that you may live in the land, about which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them.”
Luke 9: 22- 25
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saying, “For the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the leaders of the priests and the scribes, and be killed, and on the third day rise again.”
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Then he said to everyone: “If anyone is willing to come after me: let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day, and follow me.
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For whoever will have saved his life, will lose it. Yet whoever will have lost his life for my sake, will save it.
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For how does it benefit a man, if he were to gain the whole world, yet lose himself, or cause himself harm?
Now, therefore, the Lord says: “Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting and weeping and mourning.”
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And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and convert to the Lord your God. For he is gracious and merciful, patient and full of compassion, and steadfast despite ill will.
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Who knows if he might convert and forgive, and bequeath a blessing after him, a sacrifice and a libation to the Lord your God?
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Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly.
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Gather the people, sanctify the church, unite the elders, gather together the little ones and infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom depart from his bed, and the bride from her bridal chamber.
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Between the vestibule and the altar, the priests, the ministers of the Lord, will weep, and they will say: “Spare, O Lord, spare your people. And do not bequeath your inheritance into disgrace, so that the nations would rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
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The Lord has been zealous for his land, and he has spared his people.
Second Corinthians 5: 20- 6: 2
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Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.
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For God made him who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the justice of God in him.
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But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
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For he says: “In a favorable time, I heeded you; and on the day of salvation, I helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Matthew 6: 1- 6, 16- 18
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“Pay attention, lest you perform your justice before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward with your Father, who is in heaven.
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Therefore, when you give alms, do not choose to sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the towns, so that they may be honored by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.
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But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
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so that your almsgiving may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.
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And when you pray, you should not be like the hypocrites, who love standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets to pray, so that they may be seen by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.
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But you, when you pray, enter into your room, and having shut the door, pray to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.
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And when you fast, do not choose to become gloomy, like the hypocrites. For they alter their faces, so that their fasting may be apparent to men. Amen I say to you, that they have received their reward.
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But as for you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
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so that your fasting will not be apparent to men, but to your Father, who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.
It is a salutary sacrifice to attend to the commandments and to withdraw from all iniquity.
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And to depart from injustice is to offer a propitiatory sacrifice for injustices and a supplication for sins.
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Whoever gives thanks, offers a gift of fine flour, and whoever acts with mercy, offers a sacrifice.
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To withdraw from iniquity is well-pleasing to the Lord. And to withdraw from injustice is a supplication for sins.
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You should not appear empty before the sight of the Lord.
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For all these things are to be done because of the commandment of God.
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The oblation of the just fattens the altar, and is a fragrance of sweetness in the sight of the Most High.
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The sacrifice of the just is acceptable, and the Lord will never forget the memorial of it.
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Render glory to God with a good heart. And you should not reduce the first-fruits of your hands.
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With every gift, have a cheerful countenance, and sanctify your tithes with exultation.
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Give to the Most High according to his gifts to you, and act with a good eye toward the creations of your hands.
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For the Lord gives recompense, and he will repay you seven times as much.
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Do not be willing to offer corrupt gifts. For he will not accept them.
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And do not be willing to consider an unjust sacrifice. For the Lord is the judge, and with him there is no favoritism toward anyone.
Mark 10: 28- 31
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And Peter began to say to him, “Behold, we have left all things and have followed you.”
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In response, Jesus said: “Amen I say to you, There is no one who has left behind house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or land, for my sake and for the Gospel,
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who will not receive one hundred times as much, now in this time: houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land, with persecutions, and in the future age eternal life.
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But many of the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.”
Now, to the repentant, he has given the way of justice, and he has strengthened those lacking in patience, and he has fastened them to a destiny of truth.
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Convert to the Lord, and relinquish your sins.
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Make supplication before the face of the Lord, and diminish your offenses.
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Return to the Lord, and turn away from your injustice, and have immense hatred for abomination.
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And acknowledge the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in the circumstances set before you and in prayer to the most high God.
Mark 10: 17- 27
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And when he had departed on the way, a certain one, running up and kneeling before him, asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do, so that I may secure eternal life?”
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But Jesus said to him, “Why call me good? No one is good except the one God.
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You know the precepts: “Do not commit adultery. Do not kill. Do not steal. Do not speak false testimony. Do not deceive. Honor your father and mother.”
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But in response, he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth.”
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Then Jesus, gazing at him, loved him, and he said to him: “One thing is lacking to you. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and then you will have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.”
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But he went away grieving, having been greatly saddened by the word. For he had many possessions.
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And Jesus, looking around, said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the kingdom of God!”
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And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus, answering again, said to them: “Little sons, how difficult it is for those who trust in money to enter into the kingdom of God!
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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for the rich to enter into the kingdom of God.”
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And they wondered even more, saying among themselves, “Who, then, can be saved?”
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And Jesus, gazing at them, said: “With men it is impossible; but not with God. For with God all things are possible.”
Just as the dust remains when one shakes a sieve, so will the doubt of a man remain in his thoughts.
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The furnace tests the potter’s vessels, and the trial of the tribulation tests just men.
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As the pruning of a tree reveals its fruit, so does a word reveal the thoughts in the heart of a man.
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You should not praise a man before he speaks; for such is the testing of men.
First Corinthians 15: 53- 58
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Thus, it is necessary for this corruptibility to be clothed with incorruptibility, and for this mortality to be clothed with immortality.
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And when this mortality has been clothed with immortality, then the word that was written shall occur: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
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“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
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Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
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But thanks be to God, who has given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.
Luke 6: 39- 45
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Now he told them another comparison: “How can the blind lead the blind? Would they not both fall into a pit?
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The disciple is not above his teacher. But each one will be perfected, if he is like his teacher.
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And why do you see the straw that is in your brother’s eye, while the log that is in your own eye, you do not consider?
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Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, allow me to remove the straw from your eye,’ while you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? Hypocrite, first remove the log from your own eye, and then will you see clearly, so that you may lead out the straw from your brother’s eye.
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For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor does an evil tree produce good fruit.
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For each and every tree is known by its fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather the grape from the bramble bush.
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A good man, from the good storehouse of his heart, offers what is good. And an evil man, from the evil storehouse, offers what is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
