“Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.”

But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

“When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?

Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?

For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

While He was saying these things to them, a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.

Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

“If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.

And someone came to Him and said, “Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?”

And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Honor your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues,

Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.

Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”