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Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
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“This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
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For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
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But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
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so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
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Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
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For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
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If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
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True and False Disciples
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
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for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
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“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
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Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.
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“Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
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But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
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For I have come to turn “‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
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“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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The Father Revealed in the Son
At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
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Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.
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“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
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For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
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Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
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For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’
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But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’
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they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
