These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Matthew 19
Brit Hadashah 30 verses
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When had finished these discourses, He removed from and came into that part of Judaea which lay beyond the .
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And a vast multitude followed him, and He cured them there.
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- 3 Then came some of the Pharisees to Him to put Him to the proof by the question, “Has a man a right to divorce his wife whenever he chooses?”
- 4 “Have you not read,” He replied, “that He who made them ‘made them’ from the beginning ‘male and female,
- 5 and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one’?
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Thus they are no longer two, but ‘one’! What therefore has joined together, let not man separate.”
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“Why then,” said they, “did command the husband to give her ‘a written notice of divorce,’ and so put her away?”
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- 8 “,” He replied, “in consideration of the hardness of your nature permitted you to put away your wives, but it has not been so from the beginning.
- 9 And I tell you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery.”
- 10 “If this is the case with a man in relation to his wife,” said the disciples to Him, “it is better not to marry.”
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“It is not every man,” He replied, “who can receive this teaching, but only those on whom the has been bestowed.
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There are men who from their birth have been disabled from marriage, others who have been so disabled by men, and others who have disabled themselves for the sake of the Kingdom of the Heavens. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it.”
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- 13 Then young children were brought to Him for Him to put His hands on them and pray; but the disciples interfered.
- 14 however said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them; for it is to those who are childlike that the Kingdom of the Heavens belongs.”
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So He laid His hands upon them and went away.
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“Teacher,” said one man, coming up to Him, “what that is good shall I do in order to win the Life of the Ages?”
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Matthew 25:46 John 3:15 Mark 10:17-30 Jude 1:21 1 John 1:2 Titus 1:2 John 6:27-29 1 John 5:11-13 1 Timothy 1:16 John 12:25 1 Timothy 6:19 Luke 18:18-30 Matthew 19:26 Luke 10:25-28 John 5:39 1 John 5:20 Daniel 12:2 1 Timothy 6:12 John 10:28 Romans 2:7 John 4:14 Matthew 19:29 Romans 6:22-23 1 John 2:25 John 6:68 John 6:47 John 17:2-3 Acts 16:30 Romans 5:21 Titus 3:7 Matthew 19:17-18 - 17 “Why do you ask me,” He replied, “about what is good? There is only One who is truly good. But if you desire to enter into Life, keep the Commandments.”
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“Which Commandments?” he asked. answered, “’Thou shalt not kill;’ ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery;’ ‘Thou shalt not steal;’ ‘Thou shalt not lie in giving evidence;’
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- 19 Honour thy father and thy mother’; and ‘Thou shalt thy fellow man as much as thyself.’”
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“All of these,” said the young man, “I have carefully kept. What do I still lack?”
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“If you desire to be ,” replied , “go and sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have wealth in Heaven; and come, follow me.”
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Mark 10:21 Acts 2:45 Luke 12:33 Matthew 5:48 Luke 16:9 Luke 18:22 Matthew 6:19-20 Luke 6:40 Mark 2:14 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Matthew 19:28 John 12:26 John 10:27 Luke 14:33 Luke 9:23 Luke 5:27 Hebrews 10:34 Acts 4:32-35 Matthew 16:24 Matthew 9:9 Psalm 37:37 Mark 8:34 Matthew 5:19-20 Matthew 4:19 Philippians 3:12-15 Genesis 17:1 Job 1:1 Genesis 6:9 - 22 On hearing those words the young man went away much cast down; for he had much property.
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So said to His disciples, “I solemnly tell you that it is with difficulty that a rich man will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens.
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Matthew 13:22 Luke 18:24 1 Corinthians 1:26 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Mark 10:23 Luke 16:19-28 Luke 16:13-14 John 3:5 Psalm 49:16-19 Acts 14:22 Matthew 18:3 Luke 12:15-21 Deuteronomy 6:10-12 Matthew 5:20 Proverbs 11:28 John 3:3 James 1:9-11 Proverbs 30:8-9 Deuteronomy 8:10-18 Job 31:24-25 Psalm 49:6-7 James 5:1-4 James 2:6 Matthew 21:31 -
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Yes, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of .”
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These words utterly amazed the disciples, and they asked, “Who then can be saved?”
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looked at them and said, “With men this is impossible, but with everything is possible.”
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- 27 Then said to , “See, *we* have forsaken everything and followed you; what then will be *our* reward?”
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“I solemnly tell you,” replied , “that in the New Creation, when the Son of Man has taken His seat on His glorious throne, all of you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones and judge the twelve tribes of .
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Revelation 3:21 Matthew 25:31 Revelation 21:5 Matthew 20:21 Luke 22:28-30 Matthew 16:27 Ezra 6:17 Isaiah 65:17 Isaiah 66:22 1 Kings 18:31 1 Corinthians 6:2-3 Leviticus 24:5 Revelation 4:4 Exodus 15:27 Exodus 24:4 Revelation 22:2 Revelation 20:4 2 Peter 3:13 Acts 3:21 Revelation 2:26-27 Joshua 3:12 Exodus 28:21 2 Timothy 2:12 Revelation 20:11-15 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 Revelation 12:1 Revelation 7:4 Revelation 21:12-14 -
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And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.
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Luke 18:29-30 Philippians 3:8 Luke 14:26 Matthew 16:25 Mark 10:29-30 1 Peter 4:14 Matthew 10:37-38 Matthew 6:33 Matthew 10:22 Matthew 8:21-22 Matthew 19:16 Matthew 5:11 Matthew 25:34 Luke 6:22 1 Corinthians 2:9 Acts 9:16 John 15:19 Matthew 25:46 Matthew 13:8 2 Corinthians 5:16 Matthew 13:23 3 John 1:7 - 30 “But many who are now first will be last, and many who are now last will be first.