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Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are as graues which appeare not, and the men that walke ouer them, perceiue not.

And he sayde, Wo be to you also, yee Lawyers: for yee lade men with burdens grieuous to be borne, and yee your selues touche not the burdens with one of your fingers.

Wo be to you: for ye builde the sepulchres of the Prophetes, and your fathers killed them.

Truely ye beare witnesse, and allowe the deedes of your fathers: for they killed them, and yee build their sepulchres.

Wo be to you, Lawyers: for ye haue taken away the key of knowledge: ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbade.

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catche some thing of his mouth, whereby they might accuse him.

For there is nothing couered, that shall not bee reueiled: neither hidde, that shall not be knowen.

Are not fiue sparowes bought for two farthings, and yet not one of them is forgotten before God?

For the holy Ghost shall teache you in the same houre, what yee ought to say.

Wherefore he said vnto them, Take heede, and beware of couetousnesse: for though a man haue abundance, yet his life standeth not in his riches.

And I wil say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods laide vp for many yeeres: liue at ease, eate, drinke and take thy pastime.

And he spake vnto his disciples, Therefore I say vnto you, Take no thought for your life, what yee shall eate: neither for your body, what yee shall put on.

Consider the rauens: for they neither sowe nor reape: which neither haue storehouse nor barne, & yet God feedeth them: how much more are yee better then foules?

If yee then bee not able to doe the least thing, why take yee thought for the remnant?

For all such things the people of the world seeke for: and your Father knoweth that ye haue neede of these things.

Feare not, litle flocke: for it is your Fathers pleasure, to giue you the kingdome.

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

And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their master, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediatly.

Be ye also prepared therefore: for the Sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

But he that knewe it not, and yet did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with fewe stripes: for vnto whomsoeuer much is giuen, of him shalbe much required, and to whom men much commit, the more of him will they aske.