Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don't they?

And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don't they?

In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.

And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands."

In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

After he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. So he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, saying, 'Pay back what you owe me!'

So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o'clock that afternoon, he did the same thing.

Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you.

The father went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered, 'I will, sir,' but did not go.

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

The same day Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to him and asked him,

The second did the same, and the third, down to the seventh.

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.

In the same way, the one who had two gained two more.

Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you." And all the disciples said the same thing.

So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same thing once more.

In the same way even the chief priests -- together with the experts in the law and elders -- were mocking him: