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Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
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“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
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So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”
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The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,
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What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
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Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!
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And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
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For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.
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“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
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Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
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What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
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His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them.
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because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again.
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Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
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He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
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The Birth of Jesus
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
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The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
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What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?
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Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,
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For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them.
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“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.
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I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
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So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
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People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
