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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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