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Yet seek God's kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
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Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning.
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Be like men looking for their lord, when he will return from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
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Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most assuredly I tell you, that he will gird himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
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They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.
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But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.
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Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
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Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"