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"These little ones believe in me. It would be best for the person who causes one of them to lose faith to be drowned in the sea with a large stone hung around his neck.
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How horrible it will be for the world because it causes people to lose their faith. Situations that cause people to lose their faith will arise. How horrible it will be for the person who causes someone to lose his faith!
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"If your hand or your foot causes you to lose your faith, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life disabled or injured than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into everlasting fire.
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If your eye causes you to lose your faith, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire.
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"Be careful not to despise these little ones. I can guarantee that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father, who is in heaven.
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"What do you think? Suppose a man has 100 sheep and one of them strays. Won't he leave the 99 sheep in the hills to look for the one that has strayed?
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I can guarantee this truth: If he finds it, he is happier about it than about the 99 that have not strayed.
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In the same way, your Father in heaven does not want one of these little ones to be lost.
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"If a believer does something wrong, go, confront him when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have won back that believer.
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But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you so that every accusation may be verified by two or three witnesses.