Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg anything of him.

Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;

But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, which, calling to their companions,

Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens has become like a man sowing good seed in his field;

Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field;

He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.

The kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hid in the field, which a man having found has hid, and for the joy of it goes and sells all whatever he has, and buys that field.

Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls;

Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a seine which has been cast into the sea, and which has gathered together of every kind,

And he said to them, For this reason every scribe discipled to the kingdom of the heavens is like a man that is a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.

For this cause the kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who would reckon with his bondmen.

For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.

Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner.

The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who made a wedding feast for his son,

In like manner also the second and the third, unto the seven.

And the second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be made like to ten virgins that having taken their torches, went forth to meet the bridegroom.

In like manner also he that had received the two, he also gained two others.

And in like manner the chief priests also, mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,