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For all the nations of the world seek after these [things], and your Father knows that you need these [things].
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But seek his kingdom and these [things] will be added to you.
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"Do not be afraid, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.
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Sell your possessions and give charitable gifts. Make for yourselves money bags that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven where thief does not approach or moth destroy.
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
On the Alert for the Master’s Return
35 "{You must be prepared for action} and [your] lamps burning.
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And you, [be] like people who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that [when he] comes back and knocks, they can open [the door] for him immediately.
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Blessed [are] those slaves whom the master will find on the alert [when he] returns! Truly I say to you that he will dress himself for service and have them recline at the table and will come by [and] serve them.
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Even if he should come back in the second or in the third watch of the night and find [them] like this, blessed are they!
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But understand this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
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You also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come]."