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37Jesus said to him: “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38This is the greatest and first commandment. 39But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40On these two commandments the entire law depends, and also the prophets.”
8I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.
1“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. 2For with whatever judgment you judge, so shall you be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, so shall it be measured back to you. 3And how can you see the splinter in your brother’s eye, and not see the board in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter from your eye,’ while, behold, a board is in your own eye? 5Hypocrite, first remove the board from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye. 6Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they may trample them under their feet, and then, turning, they may tear you apart.
30And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from your whole mind, and from your whole strength. This is the first commandment.’
5I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing.
6Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate, and broad is the way, which leads to perdition, and many there are who enter through it. 14How narrow is the gate, and how straight is the way, which leads to life, and few there are who find it!
22But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,
24God is Spirit. And so, those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
1Therefore, as most beloved sons, be imitators of God.
12There is a way which seems just to a man, but its conclusion leads to death.
1And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind. 2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
33Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.
4And in response he said, “It has been written: ‘Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
24Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”
21Not all who say to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
1A Psalm of David himself. Do not choose to imitate the malicious; neither should you envy those who work iniquity. 2For they will quickly wither away like dry grass, and in like manner to kitchen herbs, they will soon droop. 3Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches. 4Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart. 5Reveal your way to the Lord, and hope in him, and he will accomplish it. 6And he will bring forth your justice like the light, and your judgment like the midday.
11For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.
23Then he said to everyone: “If anyone is willing to come after me: let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day, and follow me.
17For this reason, do not choose to be imprudent. Instead, understand what is the will of God.