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“No one lights a lamp and then hides it or puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where its light can be seen by all who enter the house.
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“Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is bad, your body is filled with darkness.
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Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness.
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If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light.”
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As Jesus was speaking, one of the Pharisees invited him home for a meal. So he went in and took his place at the table.
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His host was amazed to see that he sat down to eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony required by Jewish custom.
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Then the Lord said to him, “You Pharisees are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and wickedness!
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Fools! Didn’t God make the inside as well as the outside?
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So clean the inside by giving gifts to the poor, and you will be clean all over.
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“What sorrow awaits you Pharisees! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore justice and the love of God. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.
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“What sorrow awaits you Pharisees! For you love to sit in the seats of honor in the synagogues and receive respectful greetings as you walk in the marketplaces.