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but whoever*causesone of theselittleones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavymillstonehungaround his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
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"Woe to the worldbecause of its stumblingblocks! For it is inevitable that stumblingblockscome; but woe to that manthroughwhom the stumblingblockcomes!
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"If your handor your footcauses you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enterlifecrippledorlame, than to havetwohandsortwofeet and be cast into the eternalfire.
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"If your eyecauses you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enterlife with oneeye, than to havetwoeyes and be cast into the fieryhell.
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"See that you do not despiseone of theselittleones, for I say to you that their angels in heavencontinually*see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
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["For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.]
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"What do you think? Ifanymanhas a hundredsheep, and one of them has goneastray, does he not leave the ninety-nine* on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?
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"If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listeneven to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a taxcollector.
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"Truly I say to you, whatever* you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever* you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
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"But since he did not have the means to repay, his lordcommanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.
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"But that slavewent out and foundone of his fellowslaveswhoowed him a hundreddenarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, 'Paybackwhat you owe.'