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"What do you think? If any man has one hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?

"Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.

For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst."

"For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.

And some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?"

and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it."

But Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.

And Jesus said to His disciples, "Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Then Peter answered and said to Him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?"

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name's sake, will receive one hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

But he answered and said to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?'

He *said to them, "My cup you shall drink; but to sit on My right and on My left, this is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by My Father."

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."