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If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same?

And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

He replied, “If one of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?

The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

Aren’t all His sisters with us as well? Where then did this man get all these things?”

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?

But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?

But his mother replied, “No! He shall be called John.”

All spoke well of Him and marveled at the gracious words that came from His lips. “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?” they asked.

Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.

Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?

Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?

‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone is sent to them from the dead, they will repent.’

Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you may eat and drink’?

“Were not all ten cleansed?” Jesus asked. “Where then are the other nine?

…will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.

One of the criminals who hung there heaped abuse on Him. “Are You not the Christ?” he said. “Save Yourself and us!”

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Some claimed that he was, but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “I am the one.”

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.

Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”

For He knew who would betray Him. That is why He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How could you conceive such a deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God!”

Has not My hand made all these things?’

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

…for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!

The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?

…the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?

…will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?