Using Your Light
21 He also said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it to be put on a lampstand?
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For nothing is concealed except to be revealed, and nothing hidden except to come to light.
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If anyone has ears to hear, he should listen!"
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Then He said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear. By the measure you use, it will be measured and added to you.
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For to the one who has, it will be given, and from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away."
The Parable of the Growing Seed
26 "The kingdom of God is like this," He said. "A man scatters seed on the ground;
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he sleeps and rises-night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows-he doesn't know how.
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The soil produces a crop by itself-first the blade, then the head, and then the ripe grain on the head.
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But as soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle, because harvest has come."
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
30 And He said: "How can we illustrate the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe it?
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It's like a mustard seed that, when sown in the soil, is smaller than all the seeds on the ground.