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And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
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The Wise and Foolish Builders
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
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If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.
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If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
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For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar
Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words.
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
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If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
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The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
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Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar
Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words.
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
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And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”
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Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
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As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.
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And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.
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All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.
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They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority.
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All the people were amazed and said to each other, “What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!”
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As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like.
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But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”
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(All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right, because they had been baptized by John.
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Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
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“His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?
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Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.
