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⁵¹Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division. ⁵²For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three. ⁵³A father will be divided against a son, and a son against his father; a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

⁸But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

³⁵For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ³⁶And the enemies of a man will be those of his own household. ³⁷Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

³For, in times past, we ourselves were also unwise, unbelieving, erring, servants of various desires and pleasures, acting with malice and envy, being hateful and hating one another. ⁴But then the kindness and humanity of God our Savior appeared. ⁵And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit, ⁶whom he has poured out upon us in abundance, through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

⁶For the son acts with contempt for the father, and the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s enemies are those of his own household.

⁴⁹I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled? ⁵⁰And I have a baptism, with which I am to be baptized. And how I am constrained, even until it may be accomplished! ⁵¹Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division. ⁵²For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three. ⁵³A father will be divided against a son, and a son against his father; a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.” ⁵⁴And he also said to the crowds: “When you see a cloud rising from the setting of the sun, immediately you say, ‘A rain cloud is coming.’ And so it does.

³⁴Do not think that I came to send peace upon the earth. I came, not to send peace, but the sword.

⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. ⁵Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. ⁶Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth. ⁷Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.

³⁵For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

⁴⁹I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled? ⁵⁰And I have a baptism, with which I am to be baptized. And how I am constrained, even until it may be accomplished! ⁵¹Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division. ⁵²For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three. ⁵³A father will be divided against a son, and a son against his father; a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

²⁵But which of you, by thinking, is able to add one cubit to his stature?

¹Then, as great crowds were standing so close that they were stepping on one another, he began to say to his disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ²For there is nothing covered, which will not be revealed, nor anything hidden, which will not be known. ³For the things that you have spoken in darkness will be declared in the light. And what you have said in the ear in bedrooms will be proclaimed from the housetops. ⁴So I say to you, my friends: Do not be fearful of those who kill the body, and afterwards have no more that they can do. ⁵But I will reveal to you whom you should fear. Fear him who, after he will have killed, has the power to cast into Hell. So I say to you: Fear him. ⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? And yet not one of these is forgotten in the sight of God.

⁴⁹I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled?

⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? And yet not one of these is forgotten in the sight of God.