Study Desk

"Suppose a woman has ten silver coins, but she loses one of them. She will take a light and clean the house. She will look carefully for the coin until she finds it.

In the same way, it's a happy time for the angels of God when one sinner decides to change."

So he left and went to his father. "While the son was still a long way off, his father saw him coming and felt sorry for him. So he ran to him and hugged and kissed him.

But he said to his father, ‘Look, for all these years I have worked like a slave for you. I have always done what you told me to do, and you never gave me even a young goat for a party with my friends.

But then this son of yours comes home after wasting your money on prostitutes, and you kill the best calf for him!'

"I tell you, use the worldly things you have now to make ‘friends' for later. Then, when those things are gone, you will be welcomed into a home that lasts forever.

But even the smallest part of a letter in the law cannot be changed. It would be easier for heaven and earth to pass away.

Jesus said to his followers, "Things will surely happen that will make people sin. But it will be very bad for anyone who makes this happen.

It will be very bad for anyone who makes one of these little children sin. It would be better for them to have a millstone tied around their neck and be drowned in the sea.

So be careful! "If your brother or sister in God's family does something wrong, warn them. If they are sorry for what they did, forgive them.

"Suppose one of you has a servant who has been working in the field, plowing or caring for the sheep. When he comes in from work, what would you say to him? Would you say, ‘Come in, sit down and eat'?

Of course not! You would say to your servant, ‘Prepare something for me to eat. Then get ready and serve me. When I finish eating and drinking, then you can eat.'

The servant should not get any special thanks for doing his job. He is only doing what his master told him to do.

"It will be the same as during the time of Lot, when God destroyed Sodom. Those people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building houses for themselves.

The followers asked Jesus, "Where will this be, Lord?" Jesus answered, "It's like looking for a dead body—you will find it where the vultures are gathering above."

When Jesus saw that the man was sad, he said, "It will be very hard for rich people to enter God's kingdom.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter God's kingdom."

Jesus answered, "God can do things that are not possible for people to do."

Jesus said, "I can promise that everyone who has left their home, wife, brothers, parents, or children for God's kingdom

Jesus came near the city of Jericho. There was a blind man sitting beside the road. He was begging people for money.