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And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again."
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And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse; so that most of them said, "He is dead."
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But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.
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And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?"
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And he said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer."
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They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it;
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for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise."
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But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.
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And they came to Caper'na-um; and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the way?"
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But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest.
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And he sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."
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And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them,
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"Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me."
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John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he was not following us."
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But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him; for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon after to speak evil of me.
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For he that is not against us is for us.
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For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ, will by no means lose his reward.
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"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
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And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
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And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.
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And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,
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where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
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For every one will be salted with fire.
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Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its saltness, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."