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For I tell you, not one of those individuals who were invited will taste my banquet!'"

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.

It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!"

"Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?

Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.'

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."

But Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in men's eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God's sight.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don't come into this place of torment.'

It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

"Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal'?

nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!' or ‘There!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is in your midst."

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.