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And seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, neither be ye high minded.
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For all these things do the Gentiles of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things.
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But rather seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.
32
Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
33
Sell what ye have and give alms; {lit. do acts of mercy}; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches neither moth corrupts.
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35
Let your loins be girded about and
your lamps burning,
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and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open unto him immediately.
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Blessed
are those slaves, whom the lord when he comes shall find watching; verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to food and will come forth and serve them.
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And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find
them so, blessed are those slaves.
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And know this: that if the husband of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be broken through.