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Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? |
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Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. |
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Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. |
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But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. |
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Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death. |
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For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. |
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For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. |
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For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? |
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But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience. |
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Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; |
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through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. |
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Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, |
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who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit; |
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for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus. |
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Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. |
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For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. |
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Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope, |
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because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay. |
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You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’ |
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He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. |
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The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep. |
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The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, |
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they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. |
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Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?” |
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They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger. |
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Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John |
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(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), |
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he left Judea and departed into Galilee. |
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John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know. |
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He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.” |
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Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. |
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This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. |
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All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city. |
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Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it. |
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For false christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. |
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The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry. |
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Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. |
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There is nothing from outside of the man that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. |
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If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” |
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But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,”’” that is to say, given to God, |
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“then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, |
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The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. |
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As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you: |
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the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’” |
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Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; |
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for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.” |
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