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1 Jesus said to his disciples, "Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to anyone by whom they come!
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And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come.
2 It would be better for you if a millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea than for you to cause one of these little ones to stumble.
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It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.
3 Be on your guard! If another disciple sins, you must rebuke the offender, and if there is repentance, you must forgive.
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Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.
4 And if the same person sins against you seven times a day, and turns back to you seven times and says, "I repent,' you must forgive."
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And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.
5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
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And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater.
6 The Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
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And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done.
7 "Who among you would say to your slave who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, "Come here at once and take your place at the table'?
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But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,
8 Would you not rather say to him, "Prepare supper for me, put on your apron and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat and drink'?
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Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?
9 Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded?
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Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered?
10 So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, "We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!' "
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In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.
11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee.
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And it came about that when they were on the way to Jerusalem he went through Samaria and Galilee.
12 As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance,
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And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance,
13 they called out, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"
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Said, in loud voices, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
14 When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were made clean.
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And when he saw them he said, Go, and let the priests see you. And, while they were going, they were made clean.
15 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.
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And one of them, when he saw that he was clean, turning back, gave praise to God in a loud voice;
16 He prostrated himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan.
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And, falling down on his face at the feet of Jesus, he gave the credit to him; and he was a man of Samaria.
17 Then Jesus asked, "Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they?
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And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine?
18 Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?"
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Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land?
19 Then he said to him, "Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well."
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And he said to him, Get up, and go on your way; your faith has made you well.
20 Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he answered, "The kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed;
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And when the Pharisees put questions to him about when the kingdom of God would come, he gave them an answer and said, The kingdom of God will not come through observation:
21 nor will they say, "Look, here it is!' or "There it is!' For, in fact, the kingdom of God is among you."
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And men will not say, See, it is here! or, There! for the kingdom of God is among you.
22 Then he said to the disciples, "The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
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And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.
23 They will say to you, "Look there!' or "Look here!' Do not go, do not set off in pursuit.
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And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them.
24 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
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For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.
25 But first he must endure much suffering and be rejected by this generation.
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But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.
26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
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And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man.
27 They were eating and drinking, and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them.
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They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.
28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
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In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;
29 but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed all of them
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But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
30 —it will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
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So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.
31 On that day, anyone on the housetop who has belongings in the house must not come down to take them away; and likewise anyone in the field must not turn back.
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On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
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Keep in mind Lot's wife.
33 Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it.
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If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.
34 I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
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I say to you, In that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go.
35 There will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken and the other left."
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Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.
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37 Then they asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather."
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And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.
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