For He will command His angels in regard to you,To protect and defend and guard you in all your ways [of obedience and service].

“Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you,

He will have power over the treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will follow in his footsteps.

Then [on His way to board the boat] a scribe [who was a respected and authoritative interpreter of the Law] came and said to Him, “Master, I will accompany You [as Your student] wherever You go.”

And He allowed no one to go with Him [as witnesses], except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

Looking at him, Jesus felt a love (high regard, compassion) for him, and He said to him, “You lack one thing: go and sell all your property and give [the money] to the poor, and you will have [abundant] treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me [becoming My disciple, believing and trusting in Me and walking the same path of life that I walk].”

These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues;

After this Jesus went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi (Matthew) sitting at the tax booth; and He said to him, “Follow Me [as My disciple, accepting Me as your Master and Teacher and walking the same path of life that I walk].”

But the man from whom the demons had gone out kept begging Him, pleading to go with Him; but Jesus sent him away, saying,

He said to another, “Follow Me [accepting Me as Master and Teacher].” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

When Jesus heard this, He said to him, “You still lack one thing; sell everything that you have and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have [abundant] treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me [becoming My disciple, believing and trusting in Me and walking the same path of life that I walk].”

Get up, go downstairs and go with them without hesitating or doubting, because I have sent them Myself.”

The Spirit told me to go with them without the slightest hesitation. So these six brothers also went with me and we went to the man’s house.

and if it is fitting for me to go too, they will accompany me.

If anyone fails to provide for his own, and especially for those of his own family, he has denied the faith [by disregarding its precepts] and is worse than an unbeliever [who fulfills his obligation in these matters].

But, beloved, even though we speak to you in this way, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and of things that accompany salvation.

Then I heard [the distinct words of] a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes, [blessed indeed],” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest and have relief from their labors, for their deeds do follow them.”