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Then said He unto His disciples, "It is impossible but that offenses will come, but woe unto him through whom they come!
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It were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to fall.
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"Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
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And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, `I repent,' thou shalt forgive him."
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And the apostles said unto the Lord, "Increase our faith."
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And the Lord said, "If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, `Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea,' and it should obey you.
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But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by when he is come from the field, `Go and sit down to meat'?