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 \v 4 Then Herod called together all the ruling priests and teachers of the Jewish laws. He asked them where the Christ was to be born.
 \v 5 They said to him, "He will be born in the town of Bethlehem, here in the province of Judea, because the prophet Micah wrote long ago,
-\v 6 'You who live in Bethlehem in the land of Judah, your town is certainly very important, because a man from your town will become a ruler. He will guide my people who live in Israel.'"
+\v 6 'You who live in Bethlehem in the land of Judah, your town is certainly very important because a man from your town will become a ruler. He will guide my people who live in Israel.'"
 
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 \v 18 "Women in Ramah were weeping and wailing loudly.
 \q Rachel, the ancestor of those women, was weeping for their dead children.
-\q People tried to comfort her, but they could not, because all the children were dead."
+\q People tried to comfort her, but they could not because all the children were dead."
 
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 \v 19 After Herod died and while Joseph and his family were still in Egypt, an angel that the Lord had sent appeared to Joseph in a dream. He said to Joseph,
-\v 20 "Get up and take the child and his mother and go back to the country of Israel to live, because the people who were trying to kill the child have died."
+\v 20 "Get up and take the child and his mother and go back to the country of Israel to live because the people who were trying to kill the child have died."
 \v 21 So Joseph took the child and his mother, and they went back to Israel.
 
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 \v 1 While Jesus was still in the town of Nazareth, John the Baptizer went to a desolate place in the province of Judea.
 He was preaching to the people who came there. He kept saying,
-\v 2 "You must stop sinning, because God's rule from heaven is near, and he will reject you if you do not stop sinning."
+\v 2 "You must stop sinning because God's rule from heaven is near, and he will reject you if you do not stop sinning."
 \v 3 When John began preaching, then came true what Isaiah the prophet had said long ago. He said,
 \pi "In the wilderness people hear someone shouting to anyone who comes,
 \pi 'Get ready to receive the Lord when he comes!
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 \v 10 God is ready right now to punish you, just like a man who starts to chop away the roots of a fruit tree that does not give good fruit. He will chop down every tree like that and throw it into the fire.
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-\v 11 "As for me, I am not very important, because I baptize you only with water. I do it when people are sorry for having sinned. But someone else will come soon who will do very powerful things. He is so much greater than I that I do not even deserve to carry his sandals.
+\v 11 "As for me, I am not very important because I baptize you only with water. I do it when people are sorry for having sinned. But someone else will come soon who will do very powerful things. He is so much greater than I that I do not even deserve to carry his sandals.
 \p He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire.
 \v 12 He is holding his winnowing fork ready to separate the good grain from the bad chaff. He is ready to clear out all the bad chaff from where he has threshed the grain. He will take the righteous people home, as a farmer puts his wheat into his storehouse, but he will burn the wicked people, like one burns the chaff, in a fire that never goes out."
 
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 \v 13 During that time, Jesus went from the district of Galilee to the Jordan River, where John was. He did this so John could baptize him.
 \v 14 When Jesus asked John to baptize him, John refused; he said, "I need you to baptize me! But you are not a sinner, so why do you come to me?"
-\v 15 But Jesus said to him, "Baptize me now, because in this way we two will do everything that God requires." Then John agreed to baptize him.
+\v 15 But Jesus said to him, "Baptize me now because in this way we two will do everything that God requires." Then John agreed to baptize him.
 
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 \v 5 Then the devil took Jesus to Jerusalem, the city that was especially for God. He set him on the highest part of the temple
-\v 6 and said to him, "If you are truly the Son of God, jump down to the ground. You will, of course, not be hurt, because God has said in the scriptures,
+\v 6 and said to him, "If you are truly the Son of God, jump down to the ground. You will, of course, not be hurt because God has said in the scriptures,
 \q 'God will command his angels to protect you.
 \q They will lift you up in their hands when you are falling,
 \q and they will keep you from even hitting your foot on a stone.'"
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 \v 11 God is pleased with you when other people insult you for my sake, and he is honored when they do evil things to you and when they tell lies about you, saying that you are evil.
-\v 12 When that happens, rejoice and be glad, because God will give you a great reward in heaven. Remember, that is how they persecuted the prophets who lived long ago.
+\v 12 When that happens, rejoice and be glad because God will give you a great reward in heaven. Remember, that is how they persecuted the prophets who lived long ago.
 
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-\v 14 "Forgive the people who sin against you, because if you do, God your Father who is in heaven will forgive your sins.
+\v 14 "Forgive the people who sin against you because if you do, God your Father who is in heaven will forgive your sins.
 \v 15 But if you do not forgive other people, neither will God forgive your sins.
 
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 \v 32 Those who do not know God are always worrying about things like that. But God, your Father who is in heaven, knows that you need all those things.
 \v 33 Instead, make it the most important thing that God should rule over the entire world and that everyone should do what he requires. If you do that, he will give you all the things that you need.
-\v 34 So do not be worried about what will happen to you the next day, because when that day comes, you will have enough to be concerned about. So do not worry ahead of time.
+\v 34 So do not be worried about what will happen to you the next day because when that day comes, you will have enough to be concerned about. So do not worry ahead of time.
 
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-\v 6 "You do not give things that belong to God to dogs that would attack you. And you do not throw valuable pearls in front of hogs, because they would just walk on them. In the same way, do not tell wonderful things about God to people who you know will do evil things to you in return.
+\v 6 "You do not give things that belong to God to dogs that would attack you. And you do not throw valuable pearls in front of hogs because they would just walk on them. In the same way, do not tell wonderful things about God to people who you know will do evil things to you in return.
 
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 \v 11 You know how to give good things to your children even though you are evil. So God, your Father who is in heaven, will even more certainly give good things to those who ask him.
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-\v 12 "So in whatever way you want others to act toward you, that is the way you should act toward them, because that is the meaning of God's law and of everything that the prophets wrote long ago.
+\v 12 "So in whatever way you want others to act toward you, that is the way you should act toward them because that is the meaning of God's law and of everything that the prophets wrote long ago.
 
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-\v 21 "Even though many people habitually call me Lord, pretending that they have my authority, God will not agree to rule from heaven over some of them, because they do not do what he desires. My Father will agree to rule over only those who do what he wants.
+\v 21 "Even though many people habitually call me Lord, pretending that they have my authority, God will not agree to rule from heaven over some of them because they do not do what he desires. My Father will agree to rule over only those who do what he wants.
 \v 22 On the day that God judges everyone, many people will say to me, 'Lord, we spoke God's message as your representatives! As your representatives we drove out demons from people! And as your representatives, many times we performed mighty deeds!'
 \v 23 Then I will publicly say to them, 'I have never admitted that you belonged to me. Go away from me, you who do what is evil!'
 
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 \v 24 "So then, anyone who hears what I say and does what I command will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
-\v 25 Even though the rain came down and the river flooded and the winds blew and beat against that house, it did not fall down, because it had been built on solid rock.
+\v 25 Even though the rain came down and the river flooded and the winds blew and beat against that house, it did not fall down because it had been built on solid rock.
 
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 \v 26 On the other hand, anyone who hears what I say but does not obey me will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
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 \v 1 When Jesus went down from the hillside, large crowds followed him.
-\v 2 After Jesus left the crowds, a man who had a skin disease came and knelt before him. He said to Jesus, "Lord, please heal me, because I know you are able to heal me if you are willing to."
+\v 2 After Jesus left the crowds, a man who had a skin disease came and knelt before him. He said to Jesus, "Lord, please heal me because I know you are able to heal me if you are willing to."
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 \v 3 Then Jesus stretched out his hand and touched the man. He said to him, "I am willing to heal you, and I heal you now!" Immediately the man was healed from his sickness.
 
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 \v 14 Then the disciples of John the Baptizer came to Jesus and asked him, "We and the Pharisees often abstain from food because we want to please God, but your disciples do not do that. Why do they not?"
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-\v 15 Jesus answered, "When the bridegroom is with his friends when he gets married, those people do not mourn, do they? No, because they are not sad at that time. But when the bridegroom has to leave them, they will abstain from food, because they will be sad.
+\v 15 Jesus answered, "When the bridegroom is with his friends when he gets married, those people do not mourn, do they? No, because they are not sad at that time. But when the bridegroom has to leave them, they will abstain from food because they will be sad.
 
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 \v 23 Jesus came to the man's house and saw the flute players playing funeral music; there were also many mourners who were wailing loudly because the girl had died.
-\v 24 He said to them, "Go away and stop this funeral music and wailing, because the girl is not dead! She is just sleeping!" The people laughed at him, because they knew that she was dead.
+\v 24 He said to them, "Go away and stop this funeral music and wailing, because the girl is not dead! She is just sleeping!" The people laughed at him because they knew that she was dead.
 
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 \v 25 But Jesus told them to get out of the house. Then he went into the room where the girl was lying. He took hold of her hand and she became alive again and got up.
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 \v 7 When you go to them, proclaim to them that God will soon rule from heaven.
 
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-\v 8 Heal sick people, cause dead people to become alive, heal people with leprosy and bring them back into society, and cause demons to leave those whom they control. Do not charge any money for helping people, because God did not charge you anything for helping you.
+\v 8 Heal sick people, cause dead people to become alive, heal people with leprosy and bring them back into society, and cause demons to leave those whom they control. Do not charge any money for helping people because God did not charge you anything for helping you.
 \v 9 Do not take any money with you,
 \v 10 nor a bag for what belongs to you. Do not take an extra tunic, nor sandals in addition to what you are wearing, nor a walking stick. Every worker deserves to get pay from the people for whom he works, so you deserve to receive food from the people to whom you go.
 
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 \v 16 "Take note: When I send you out, you will be as defenseless as sheep among people who are as dangerous as wolves. So be careful like snakes are careful and be harmless to them like doves are harmless.
-\v 17 Also, be on guard against such people, because they will arrest you and take you to the members of the governing councils to put you on trial. They will whip you in their synagogues.
+\v 17 Also, be on guard against such people because they will arrest you and take you to the members of the governing councils to put you on trial. They will whip you in their synagogues.
 \v 18 And because you belong to me, they will take you before governors and kings in order that they may put you on trial and punish you. But you will testify to those rulers and to other Gentiles about me.
 
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 \v 24 "A disciple should not expect to be greater than his teacher, and servants are not superior to their master.
-\v 25 You do not expect that people will treat a student better than they treat his teacher, or that they will treat a servant better than they treat his master. Similarly, because I am your teacher and master, you can expect that people will mistreat you, because they have mistreated me. I am like the ruler of a household, whom they call Satan. If they act that badly toward me, how do you think they will act toward you?
+\v 25 You do not expect that people will treat a student better than they treat his teacher, or that they will treat a servant better than they treat his master. Similarly, because I am your teacher and master, you can expect that people will mistreat you because they have mistreated me. I am like the ruler of a household, whom they call Satan. If they act that badly toward me, how do you think they will act toward you?
 
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 \v 27 So, instead of being afraid, what I say to you secretly as people do at night, tell it publicly as people do during the daytime. What I say to you privately as people do when they whisper to you, proclaim it publicly.
 
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-\v 28 Do not be afraid of people who are able to kill your body but are not able to destroy your soul. Instead, fear God, because he is able to destroy both your body and your soul in hell.
-\v 29 Think about the sparrows. They have so little value that you can buy two of them for only one small coin. But when any sparrow falls to the ground and dies, God your heavenly Father knows it, because he knows everything.
+\v 28 Do not be afraid of people who are able to kill your body but are not able to destroy your soul. Instead, fear God because he is able to destroy both your body and your soul in hell.
+\v 29 Think about the sparrows. They have so little value that you can buy two of them for only one small coin. But when any sparrow falls to the ground and dies, God your heavenly Father knows it because he knows everything.
 \v 30 He knows everything about you, too. He even knows how many hairs you have on your head!
 \v 31 God values you much more than he values sparrows. So, do not be afraid of people who threaten to kill you!
 
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 \v 3 He taught them using many parables. He said, "Listen! A man went out to his field to sow seeds.
 \v 4 As he was scattering the seeds over the soil, some of the seeds fell on the path. But some birds came and ate those seeds.
-\v 5 Other seeds fell on ground where there was not much soil on top of the rock. Those seeds sprouted very soon, because the sun quickly warmed the shallow soil.
-\v 6 But when the young plants came up, they became too hot in the sunlight, and they dried up, because they did not have deep roots.
+\v 5 Other seeds fell on ground where there was not much soil on top of the rock. Those seeds sprouted very soon because the sun quickly warmed the shallow soil.
+\v 6 But when the young plants came up, they became too hot in the sunlight, and they dried up because they did not have deep roots.
 
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 \v 7 Other seeds fell on ground that had thorny weeds. The thorny weeds grew together with the young plants, and they crowded out the young plants.
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 \v 3-4 This is what happened to make Herod think this. Herod had married Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, while Philip was still living. So John kept saying to him, "What you have done is against God's law!" Then, to please Herodias, Herod told his soldiers to arrest John. They bound him with chains and put him in prison.
-\v 5 Herod wanted to order his men to execute John, but he was afraid of the general public, because they believed that John was a prophet speaking for God.
+\v 5 Herod wanted to order his men to execute John, but he was afraid of the general public because they believed that John was a prophet speaking for God.
 
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 \v 7 You only pretend to be good! Isaiah also told the truth about you when he spoke God's thoughts about your ancestors.
 \v 8 'These people talk as if they honor me, but they do not care about me,'
-\v 9 It is useless for them to worship me, because they teach what people thought up as their authoritative teachings.'"
+\v 9 It is useless for them to worship me because they teach what people thought up as their authoritative teachings.'"
 
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 \v 17 You ought to understand that whatever food people eat enters their stomachs, and later what remains passes out of their bodies.
 
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-\v 18 Instead, the evil words that the mouth speaks are what makes God reject a person, because they come from the evil things that the person thinks in his innermost being.
+\v 18 Instead, the evil words that the mouth speaks are what makes God reject a person because they come from the evil things that the person thinks in his innermost being.
 \v 19 This is because it is people's innermost beings that cause them to think things that are evil, to murder people, to commit adultery, to commit other sexual sins, to steal things, to testify falsely, and to speak evil about others.
 \v 20 It is these actions that cause God to consider people to be unacceptable to him. But to eat with unwashed hands does not cause God to reject people."
 
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-\v 24 Jesus said to her, "God has sent me only to the people of Israel, because they are like sheep who have lost their way."
+\v 24 Jesus said to her, "God has sent me only to the people of Israel because they are like sheep who have lost their way."
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 \v 25 But the woman came closer to Jesus and knelt down in front of him. She pled, "Lord, help me!"
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-\v 32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "This crowd of people has been with me for three days and have nothing left to eat. I feel sorry for them. I do not want to send them away while they are still hungry, because if I did that, they might faint on the way home."
+\v 32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "This crowd of people has been with me for three days and have nothing left to eat. I feel sorry for them. I do not want to send them away while they are still hungry because if I did that, they might faint on the way home."
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 \v 33 The disciples said to him, "In this place where nobody lives, we cannot possibly obtain enough food to feed such a large crowd!"
 \v 34 Jesus asked them, "How many loaves do you have?"
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 \v 25 When the disciples heard this, they were very astounded. They thought that rich people were the ones whom God blesses the most. So they said to Jesus, "If that is so, it does not seem likely that anyone will be saved!"
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-\v 26 Then Jesus looked intently at them and said, "Yes, it is impossible for people to save themselves. But God can save them, because God is able to do anything!"
+\v 26 Then Jesus looked intently at them and said, "Yes, it is impossible for people to save themselves. But God can save them because God is able to do anything!"
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 \v 27 Then Peter said to him, "You know that we have left everything behind and we have become your disciples in order to follow you. So what benefit will we get for doing that?"
 
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-\v 4-5 When all this happened, what one of the prophets had written came true. That prophet had written, "Tell the people who live in Jerusalem, 'Look! Your king is coming to you! He will come humbly. He will show that he is humble, because he will be riding on a colt, the offspring of a donkey.'"
+\v 4-5 When all this happened, what one of the prophets had written came true. That prophet had written, "Tell the people who live in Jerusalem, 'Look! Your king is coming to you! He will come humbly. He will show that he is humble because he will be riding on a colt, the offspring of a donkey.'"
 
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 \v 25 Where did John the Baptizer get his authority to baptize those who came to him? Did he get it from God or from people?'
 \p The chief priests and elders debated among themselves about what they should answer. They said to each other, "If we say, 'It was from God,' he will say to us, 'Then you should have believed his message!'
-\v 26 But if we say, 'It was from people,' the crowd might react violently against us, because all the people believe that John was a prophet whom God had sent."
+\v 26 But if we say, 'It was from people,' the crowd might react violently against us because all the people believe that John was a prophet whom God had sent."
 \v 27 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know where John got his authority from."
 \p Then Jesus said to them, "Because you did not answer my question, I will not tell you who gave me the right to do the things I did here yesterday.
 
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 \v 11 But when the king went into the hall to see the guests, he saw someone who was not wearing clothes that had been provided for the guests to wear at a wedding feast.
-\v 12 The king said to him, 'Friend, you should never have entered this hall, because you are not wearing the clothes that guests wear at wedding feasts!' The man did not say anything, because he did not know what to say.
+\v 12 The king said to him, 'Friend, you should never have entered this hall because you are not wearing the clothes that guests wear at wedding feasts!' The man did not say anything because he did not know what to say.
 
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 \v 13 Then the king said to his servants, 'Tie this person's feet and hands and throw him outside where there is total darkness, where people cry out and gnash their teeth because of the pain they are in.'"
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 \v 29 Jesus replied to them, "You are certainly wrong in what you are thinking. You do not know what is written in the scriptures. You also do not know that God has the power to make people alive again.
-\v 30 The fact is that the woman will not be the wife of any of them, because after God causes all dead people to live again, no one will be married. Instead, people will be like the angels in heaven. They do not marry.
+\v 30 The fact is that the woman will not be the wife of any of them because after God causes all dead people to live again, no one will be married. Instead, people will be like the angels in heaven. They do not marry.
 
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 \v 31 But about dead people becoming alive again, God said something about that. I am sure you have read it. Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said to Moses,
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 \v 1 Then Jesus said to the crowd and to his disciples,
 \v 2 "The Pharisees and the men who teach our Jewish laws have made themselves the ones who interpret the laws that God had given Moses for the people of Israel.
-\v 3 Consequently, you should do whatever they tell you that you must do. But do not do what they do, because they themselves do not do those things.
+\v 3 Consequently, you should do whatever they tell you that you must do. But do not do what they do because they themselves do not do those things.
 
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 \v 4 They require you to obey many rules that are difficult to obey. But they themselves do not help anyone obey those rules. It is as if they were tying up very heavy loads and putting them on your shoulders for you to carry. But they will not even move one finger to help you carry them.
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-\v 13-14 "You teachers of the law and you Pharisees, you are hypocrites! How terribly God will punish you, because you refuse to come under the rule of heaven and you also keep others out. You yourselves do not want to go in and you also keep others from entering.
+\v 13-14 "You teachers of the law and you Pharisees, you are hypocrites! How terribly God will punish you because you refuse to come under the rule of heaven and you also keep others out. You yourselves do not want to go in and you also keep others from entering.
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 \v 15 "You teachers of the law and you Pharisees, you are hypocrites! How terribly God will punish you! You work hard to get even one person to believe what you teach. You even travel across seas and lands to distant places in order to do that. And as a result, when one person believes what you teach, you make that person deserve to go to hell much more than you yourselves do.
 
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 \v 16 "You Jewish leaders, how terribly God will punish you! You are like blind people who try to lead others. You say, 'If someone asks the temple to confirm that he will do something as if the temple were a person, then if he does not do what he promised, it means nothing. But if he asks the gold in the temple to confirm that he will do something, then he must do it.'
-\v 17 You are fools, and you are like people who are blind! The gold that is in the temple is important, but the temple is even more important, because it is the temple that makes the gold to be only for God.
+\v 17 You are fools, and you are like people who are blind! The gold that is in the temple is important, but the temple is even more important because it is the temple that makes the gold to be only for God.
 
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 \v 18 Also you say, 'If someone asks the altar to confirm that he will do something as if the altar were a person, then if he does not do what he promised, it means nothing. But if he asks the gift that he has placed on the altar to confirm that he will do something, then he must do it.'
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-\v 23 "You teachers of the law and you Pharisees, you are hypocrites! How terribly God will punish you! You are hypocrites because, even though you give to God a tenth of the herbs you produce, such as mint, dill, and cummin, you do not obey God's laws that are more important. For example, you do not act justly toward others, you do not act mercifully toward people, and you take things away from others using force. It is good to give a tenth of your herbs to God, but you should also obey these other more important laws.
+\v 23 "You teachers of the law and you Pharisees, you are hypocrites! How terribly God will punish you! You are hypocrites because, even though you give to God a tenth of the herbs you produce, such as mint, dill, and cumin, you do not obey God's laws that are more important. For example, you do not act justly toward others, you do not act mercifully toward people, and you take things away from others using force. It is good to give a tenth of your herbs to God, but you should also obey these other more important laws.
 \v 24 You leaders are like blind people who are trying to lead others. You are careful not to offend God by swallowing even the smallest insect when you drink water, but you act as badly as if you were swallowing a camel!
 
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 \v 34 "Then he will say to those on his right, 'You people who have been blessed by my Father, come! Come receive all the good things he will give you, for he is now giving you the blessings of his rule—things he has been preparing since the time he created the world.
-\v 35 These things belong to you, because you gave me something to eat when I was hungry. You gave me something to drink when I was thirsty. When I was a stranger in your town, you invited me to stay in your houses.
+\v 35 These things belong to you because you gave me something to eat when I was hungry. You gave me something to drink when I was thirsty. When I was a stranger in your town, you invited me to stay in your houses.
 \v 36 When I needed clothes, you gave me some. When I was sick, you took care of me. When I was in prison, you came to visit me.'
 
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 \v 41 "But then he will say to those on his left, 'You people whom God has cursed, leave me! Go into the eternal fire that God has prepared for the devil and his angels!
-\v 42 It is right for you to go there, because you did not give me anything to eat when I was hungry. You did not give me anything to drink when I was thirsty.
+\v 42 It is right for you to go there because you did not give me anything to eat when I was hungry. You did not give me anything to drink when I was thirsty.
 \v 43 You did not invite me into your homes when I was a stranger in your town. You did not give me any clothes when I needed them. You did not take care of me when I was sick or in prison.'
 
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 \v 3 At the same time the chief priests and the Jewish elders gathered in the home of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas.
 \v 4 There they planned how they could arrest Jesus in some tricky way so that they could have him executed.
-\v 5 But they said, "We must not do it during the Passover festival, because if we do it then, the people might riot."
+\v 5 But they said, "We must not do it during the Passover festival because if we do it then, the people might riot."
 
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