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Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!
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It would be well for him if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea, rather than that he should cause even one of these little ones to fall.
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Be on your guard. "If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him; and if he is sorry, forgive him;
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and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you, and seven times turns again to you and says, `I am sorry,' you must forgive him."
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And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."
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"If your faith," replied the Lord, "is like a mustard seed, you might command this black-mulberry-tree, `Tear up your roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it would obey you.
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But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, `Come at once and take your place at table,'
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and will not rather say to him, `Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?
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Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?
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So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, "`There is no merit in our service: what we have done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'"
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As they pursued their journey to Jerusalem, He passed through Samaria and Galilee.
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And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him who were lepers and stood at a distance.
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In loud voices they cried out, "Jesus, Rabbi, take pity on us."
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Perceiving this, He said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the Priests." And while on their way to do this they were made clean.
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One of them, seeing that he was cured, came back, adoring and praising God in a loud voice,
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and he threw himself at the feet of Jesus, thanking Him. He was a Samaritan.
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"Were not all ten made clean?" Jesus asked; "but where are the nine?
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Have none been found to come back and give glory to God except this foreigner?"
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And He said to him, "Rise and go: your faith has cured you."
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Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, "The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it.
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Nor will they say, `See here!' or `See there!' --for the Kingdom of God is within you."
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Then, turning to His disciples, He said, "There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one.
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And they will say to you, `See there!' `See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.
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For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day.
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But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation.
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"And as it was in the time of Noah, so will it also be in the time of the Son of Man.
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Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all.
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The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;
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but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all.
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Exactly so will it be on the day that the veil is lifted from the Son of Man.
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"On that day, if a man is on the roof and his property indoors, let him not go down to fetch it; and, in the same way, he who is in the field, let him not turn back.
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Remember Lot's wife.
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Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
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On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in one bed: one will be taken away and the other left behind.
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There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away and the other left behind."
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"Where, Master?" they inquired. "Where the dead body is," He replied, "there also will the vultures flock together."
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