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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?
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Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
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Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?
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The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.
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But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
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I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
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In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
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I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
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“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
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Additional Teachings
“The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it.
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Sin, Faith, Duty
Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.
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So watch yourselves. “If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them.
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Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.”
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“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
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“All these I have kept since I was a boy,” he said.
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So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
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All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”
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Paying Taxes to Caesar
Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.
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Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
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and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.
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But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?
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‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”
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but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.
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and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
