"A voice in Ramah was heard, weeping and great mourning; Rachel, weeping for her children; and she was not willing to be comforted, because they are not."

"Happy are the poor in spirit; because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

"Happy are those who mourn: because they shall be comforted,

"Happy are the meek: because they shall inherit the earth.

"Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness: because they shall be filled.

"Happy are the merciful: because they shall receive mercy.

"Happy are the pure in heart; because they shall see God.

"Happy are the peacemakers; because they shall be called sons of God.

"Happy are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake; because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Rejoice, and exult; because great is your reward in Heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you.

but I say to you, Swear not at all; neither by Heaven, because it is God's throne;

nor by the earth, because it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the Great King's city;

neither swear by your head, because you can not make one hair white or black.

that ye may be sons of your Father Who is in Heaven; because He causeth His sun to rise on evil men and on good, and sendeth rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

"Enter ye in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter through it;

because narrow is the gate, and straitened the way that leads to life, and few there are who find it!

And, seeing the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, as sheep having no shepherd.

Then He began to upbraid the cities in which were done most of His mighty works, because they did not repent.

"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! because, if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes;

"And you, Capernaum, shall you be exalted to Heaven? You shall go down to Hades; because, if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

At that season Jesus, answering, said, "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, because Thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and didst reveal them to babes.

Yea, Father, because so it was well-pleasing before Thee!

Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; because I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls;

"The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

"A queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

And others fell on the rocky places, where they had not much earth; and straightway they sprang up, because they had not depth of earth.

And, the sun having risen, they were scorched; and, because they had no root, they withered away.

And He, answering, said to them, "Because to you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but to them it has not been given.

On this account, I speak to them in parables; because, seeing, they see not; and, hearing, they hear not, nor understand.

But happy are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.

yet he has not root in himself, but is only temporary; and, when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, straightway he stumbles.

And He did not perform many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

For Herod, having laid hold of John, bound him, and put him in prison, because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

And, wishing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because they were holding him as a prophet.

And the king, though grieved, yet, because of the oaths and of those sitting at the table with them, ordered it to be given;

And He, answering, said to them, "Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

shall in no wise honor his father; and ye made void the word of God because of your tradition.

And Jesus, having called His disciples near, said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with Me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest haply they faint in the way."

And Jesus, knowing it, said, "Why are ye deliberating among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have no bread?

And Jesus, answering, said to him, "Happy are you, Simon Bar-Jonah; because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father Who is in Heaven.

But, turning, He said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! you are a stumbling-block to Me; because you are not thinking of the things of God, but the things of men."

"Lord, have mercy on my son, because he is lunatic, and suffers grievously; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water.

And He saith to them, "Because of your little faith. For verily I say to you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say to this mountain, 'Remove hence yonder,' and it will be removed, and nothing shall be impossible to you."

"Woe to the world because of stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity that the stumbling-blocks come; but woe to the man through whom the stumbling-block comes!

"Then, calling him to him, his lord says to him, 'Evil servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you besought me.

They say to him, 'Because no man hired us.' He says to them, 'Go ye also into the vineyard.'

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

Neither be ye called leaders; because One is your Leader, the Christ.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for ye do not enter, neither do ye suffer those who are entering in to enter.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and, when he is made such, ye make him a son of Hell twofold more than yourselves.

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin; and have omitted the weightier things of the law??he judgment, and the mercy, and the faith; but these it was proper to have done, and those not to have omitted.

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish; but within they are full from extortion and excess!

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like white-washed sepulchres, which outwardly, indeed, appear beautiful, but within are full of bones of the dead and of all uncleanness.

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous, and say,

and, because lawlessness abounds, the love of many will grow cold.

Watch ye, therefore, because ye know not in what day your Lord is coming.

And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'

Watch, therefore, because ye know not the day, nor the hour!

Then Jesus saith to them, "All ye will be made to stumble because of Me this night; for it has been written, 'I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad.'

But Peter, answering, said to Him, "If all should be made to stumble because of Thee, I will never be made to stumble."

For he knew that because of envy they delivered Him up.

And, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that Righteous One; for I suffered many things today in a dream because of Him."

He has trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now, if He desireth Him; because He said, 'I am God's Son.'"