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Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."

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

For at that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you should say."

And He said to them, "Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

Then I will say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!"'

This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God."

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

For the nations of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.

Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

And why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

Then Jesus told this parable: "A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any.

So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, 'Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'

and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.

But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. "There are six days for work," he told the crowd. "So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath."

Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?"

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, 'Lord, open the door for us.' But he will reply, 'I do not know where you are from.'