And if ye lend of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace is to you? for also the sinful lend to the sinful, that they might receive back the like things.

Every one coming to me, and hearing my words, and doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like:

He is like to a man building a house, who digged, and deepened, and set the foundation upon the rock: and there having been an overflow, the river dashed against that house, and was not able to move it: for it was founded upon the rock.

And he having heard, and not having done, is like a man having built a house upon the earth, without a foundation; against which the river dashed, and immediately it fell; and the breaking of that house was great.

And the Lord said, To whom shall I liken the men of this generation? and to whom are they like?

They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling to one another, and saying, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not; we lamented to you, and ye wept not.

And ye like men expecting their Lord, when he shall loose from the nuptials; that having come and knocked, they might quickly open to him.

And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

It is like a kernel of mustard, which a man having taken, cast into his garden; and it grew, and became into a great tree; and the fowls of heaven encamped in its young shoots.

And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?

It is like leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, until the whole was leavened.

For neither can they die any more: for they are like to messengers; and are sons of God, being the sons of the rising up.