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For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them."

And out of pity for him the lord of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"

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'?

He said to them, "For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery."

For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."

but Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."

When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.

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

Again I tell 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."

And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

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

After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

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

Then the mother of the sons of Zeb'edee came up to him, with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something.

He said to them, "You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

And Jesus stopped and called them, saying, "What do you want me to do for you?"

But if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the multitude; for all hold that John was a prophet."