Therefore make not yourselves like them: for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye ask him.

Therefore, every one which hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a discerning man which built his house upon the rock.

To what shall I liken this generation I it is like little boys sitting in market-places, and calling to their companions,

Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens was made like a man sowing good seed in his field:

Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a kernel of mustard, which a man taking, sowed in his field:

Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened.

Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a treasure hid in the field; which a man finding, concealed, and from his joy, he retires, and all things which he has he sells, and he purchases that field.

Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, a wholesale merchant, seeking beautiful pearls:

Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a large sweep-net, cast into the sea, and having gathered of every kind:

And he said to them, Therefore every scribe, having been a disciple in the kingdom of the heavens, is like to a man, master of a house, who casts out from his treasure new things and old.

For the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, master of a house, who went out as soon as morning to hire workmen for his vineyard.

And the second like it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitewashed tombs, which without indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness.