"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

Why should you worry about clothing? See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin,

But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

And a leper came up to him and fell on his knees before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

Then Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go! Show yourself to the priest, and in proof of your cure, offer the gift that Moses prescribed."

He said to him, "I will come and cure him."

You must go and learn what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for.' I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

Cure the sick, raise the dead, heal lepers, drive out demons. Give without payment, just as you received without payment.

But if you knew what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for,' you would not have condemned men who are not guilty.

There was a man there with one hand withered. And in order to get a charge to bring against him, they asked him, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath?"

And some of it fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out.

For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!'

Let them both grow together until harvest time, and when we harvest I will direct the reapers to gather up the weeds first and tie them up in bundles to burn, but get the wheat into my barn.' "

And I brought him to your disciples and they have not been able to cure him."

In the morning as he went back to the city, he grew hungry,

and seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "No more fruit shall ever grow on you!" And the fig tree withered up at once.

Jesus answered, "Take care that no one misleads you about this.

and because of the increase of wickedness, most men's love will grow cold.

"Let the fig tree teach you the lesson. As soon as its branches grow soft and put forth leaves, you know that summer is coming.

As the bridegroom was slow in coming, they all grew drowsy and fell asleep.

There came to him a leper appealing to him on his knees, saying to him, "If you only choose, you can cure me."

saying to him, "See that you say nothing about this to anybody, but begone! show yourself to the priest, and in proof of your cure make the offerings for your purification which Moses prescribed."

And they were watching him closely, to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge to bring against him.

Some of the seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out, and it yielded no grain.

And some fell on good soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

"Take care what you hear," he said to them. "The measure you give will be given to you, and even more besides.

When it grew late his disciples came up to him and said, "This is a lonely place and it is getting late.

And Jesus said to them, "Take care that no one misleads you about this.

"Let the fig tree teach you the lesson. As soon as its branches grow soft and put forth leaves you know that summer is coming.

And the child grew up and became strong in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he proclaimed himself to Israel.

And the child grew up and became strong and thoughtful, with God's blessing resting on him.

As Jesus grew older he gained in wisdom and won the approval of God and men.

He said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to me: 'Doctor, cure yourself! Do the things here in your own country that we hear you did at Capernaum.'

When he was in one of the towns, he came upon a man covered with leprosy. And when he saw Jesus he fell down on his face, and begged him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

Then he warned him to tell nobody, "But go," he said, "show yourself to the priest, and in proof of your cure make the offerings for your purification, just as Moses prescribed."

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

And the scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether he would cure people on the Sabbath, in order to find a charge to bring against him.

And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.

And some fell on good soil, and grew up and yielded a hundred fold!" As he said this he called out, "Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!"

So take care how you listen. For people who have will have more given to them, and from people who have nothing, even what they think they have will be taken away."

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom nobody had been able to cure,

Then he called the Twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases,

and he sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to cure the sick.

and cure the sick there, and say to them, 'The Kingdom of God is close upon you!'

and he went up to him and dressed his wounds with oil and wine and bound them up. And he put him on his own mule and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

The next day he took out a dollar and gave it to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will refund to you on my way back.'

So take care! Your very light may be darkness!

And he said to them, "Take care! You must be on your guard against any form of greed, for a man's life does not belong to him, no matter how rich he is."

See how the lilies grow. They do not toil or spin, but, I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them.

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and dropped in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted on its branches."

And Jesus said to the Pharisees and the experts in the Law, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath or not?"

And he said, "Take care not to be misled. For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am he,' and 'The time is at hand.' Do not follow them.

But take care that your hearts are not loaded down with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day takes you by surprise, like a trap.

But he said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow today before you deny three times that you know me!"

He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less."

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

For he is only a hired man, and does not care about the sheep.

I tell you, when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle and go where you pleased, but when you grow old, you will stretch our your hands and someone else will put a girdle on you and take you where you have no wish to go"

But many of those who had heard what they said believed it, and their number grew to be about five thousand.

and then said, "Men of Israel, take care what you propose to do with these men.

It was at this time that Moses was born. He was a wonderfully beautiful child, and for three months he was taken care of in his father's house.

and was on his way home. He was sitting in his car, reading the prophet Isaiah.

Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and stay by that car."

So he ordered the car to stop, and Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

But Saul grew more and more powerful, and bewildered the Jews who lived in Damascus by his proofs that Jesus was the Christ.

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace and became established. It lived in reverence for the Lord and, stimulated by the holy Spirit, it grew steadily in numbers.

But the Lord's message continued to grow and spread.

Then after he had taken care of them for forty years in the desert,

Take care, therefore, that what is said in the prophets does not prove true of you:

and a young man named Eutychus, who was sitting at the window, became very drowsy as Paul's address grew longer and longer, and finally went fast asleep and fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius kindly allowed Paul to go and see his friends and be taken care of.

For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!" '

I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow.

So neither the planter nor the waterer counts for anything, but only God who makes the plants grow.

I for my part care very little about being examined by you or by any human court. I do not even offer myself for investigation.

But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous.

another, from his union with the same Spirit receives faith, another, by one and the same Spirit, the ability to cure the sick,

and the parts of it that we think common, we dress with especial care, and our unpresentable parts receive especial attention

that there is no clash in the body, but its parts all alike care for one another.

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as inspired preachers, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then come ability to cure the sick, helpfulness, administration, ecstatic speaking.

Is everyone able to cure the sick? Can everyone speak ecstatically? Can everyone explain what it means?

You will grow rich in every way, so that through me you can show perfect liberality that will make men thank God for it.

But if you bite one another and eat one another, take care, or you will be destroyed by one another.

We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.

for no one ever hates his own person, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ does with the church,

Henceforth you must grow strong through union with the Lord and through his mighty strength.

And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight,

so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.

Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.

Such people lose their connection with the head, from which the whole body through its ligaments and sinews must be governed and united if it is to grow in the divine way.

Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always try to treat one another and everybody with kindness.

He must not be a new convert, or he may grow conceited and incur criticism from slanderous people.

If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

For someone has somewhere solemnly declared, "What is man? for you think of him; Or any man? for you care for him.

so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.

Think of the opposition that he encountered from those sinners against themselves, if you would not grow weary and faint-hearted.

Take care not to refuse to listen to him who is speaking. For if they could not escape because they would not listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, who reject him who is from heaven!

and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

I will also take care that after I am gone you will be able at any time to call these things to mind.