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It would be better for him if a millstone were hung round his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
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Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him;
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and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, and says, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."
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The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
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And the Lord said, "If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this sycamine tree, 'Be rooted up, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
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"Will any one of you, who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep, say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at table'?
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Will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare supper for me, and gird yourself and serve me, till I eat and drink; and afterward you shall eat and drink'?
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Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?
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So you also, when you have done all that is commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'"
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On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Sama'ria and Galilee.
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And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance