Study Desk

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

Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek, but your Father knows that you need these things.

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

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

And be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks.

You too, be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect."

for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.

"And why do you not even judge for yourselves what is right?

For while you are going with your opponent to appear before the magistrate, on your way there make an effort to settle with him, so that he may not drag you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?'

And he answered and said to him, ‘Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in manure,

And behold, there was a woman who for eighteen years had a sickness caused by a spirit, and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.

And this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for—behold—eighteen years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?"

"Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Just at that time some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, "Leave and go from here, for Herod wants to kill You."

Nevertheless I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not possible that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for it will be repaid to you at the resurrection of the righteous."

And at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.'