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Luke Chapter 6
Love your enemies
27:
"But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who
hate you,
28: bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse
you.
Matthew Chapter 5
Love your enemies
46: For if you love those
who love you, what reward have
you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Luke Chapter 6
29: To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other
also; and from him who takes away your coat do not withhold even your
shirt.
30: Give to every one who begs from you; and of him who
takes away your goods do not ask them again.
31: And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them
37: "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not,
and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Matthew Chapter 5
48: You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is
perfect.
Luke Chapter 11
9: And I tell you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek,
and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
10: For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks
finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Matthew Chapter 8
The healing of a Centurion's
Servant
5: As he entered Caper'na-um, a centurion came
forward to
him, beseeching him
6: and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at
home, in terrible distress."
7: And he said to him, "I will come and heal him."
8: But the centurion answered him, "Lord, I am not worthy
to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant
will be healed.
9: For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me;
and I say to one, `Go,' and he goes, and to another, `Come,' and he
comes, and to my slave, `Do this,' and he does it."
10: When Jesus heard him, he marveled, and said to those
who followed him, "Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found
such faith.
11: I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit
at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,
12: while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the
outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth."
13: And to the centurion Jesus said, "Go; be it done for
you as you have believed." And the servant was healed at that very
moment.
John Chapter 9
Cure the Blind Man
1: As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his
birth.
2: And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this
man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
3: Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or
his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.
4: We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is
day; night comes, when no one can work.
5: As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world."
6: As he said this, he spat on the ground and made clay of
the spittle and anointed the man's eyes with the clay,
7: saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Silo'am" (which
means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
8: The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a
beggar, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"
9: Some said, "It is he"; others said, "No, but he is like
him." He said, "I am the man."
10: They said to him, "Then how were your eyes opened?"
11: He
answered, "The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said
to me, `Go to Silo'am and wash'; so I went and washed and received my
sight."
12: They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not
know."
13: They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly
been blind.
14: Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and
opened his eyes.
15: The Pharisees again asked him how he had received his
sight. And he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and
I see."
16: Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God,
for he does not keep the sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who
is a sinner do such signs?" There was a division among them.
17: So they again said to the blind man, "What do you say
about him, since he has opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."
24: So for the second time they called the man who had
been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know that this
man is a sinner."
25: He answered, "Whether he is a sinner, I do not know;
one thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see."
35:
Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said,
"Do you believe in the Son of man?"
36: He answered, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe
in him?"
37: Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and it is he
who speaks to you."
38: He said, "Lord, I believe"; and he worshiped him.
39: Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that
those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind."
40: Some of the Pharisees near him heard this, and they
said to him, "Are we also blind?"
41: Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have
no guilt; but now that you say, `We see,' your guilt remains.
Matthew Chapter 23
Denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees
13: "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men;
for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go
in.
15: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you
traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a
proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
16: "Woe to you, blind guides, who say, `If any one swears
by the temple, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gold of the
temple, he is bound by his oath.'
17: You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the
temple that has made the gold sacred?
18: And you say, `If any one swears by the altar, it is
nothing; but if any one swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is
bound by his oath.'
19: You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the
altar that makes the gift sacred?
20: So he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by
everything on it;
21: and he who swears by the temple, swears by it and by
him who dwells in it;
22: and he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of
God and by him who sits upon it.
23: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier
matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to
have done, without neglecting the others. 
24: You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing
a camel!
25: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they
are full of extortion and rapacity.
26: You blind Pharisee! first cleanse the inside of the
cup and of the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
27: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but
within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
28: So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but
within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the
righteous,
30: saying, `If we had lived in the days of our fathers,
we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the
prophets.'
31: Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons
of those who murdered the prophets.
32: Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
33: You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to
escape being sentenced to hell?
34: Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and
scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will
scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,
35: that upon you may
come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent
Abel to the blood of Zechari'ah the son of Barachi'ah, whom you
murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
36: Truly, I say to you, all this will come upon this
generation.
37: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and
stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your
children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you
would not!
38: Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate.
39: For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you
say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"
John Chapter 3
Nicodemus
1: Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named
Nicode'mus, a ruler of the Jews.
2: This man came to Jesus by night and said to him,
"Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do
these signs that you do, unless God is with him." 
3: Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless
one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
4: Nicode'mus said to him, "How can a man be born when he
is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"
5: Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one
is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6: That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7: Do not marvel that I said to you, `You must be born
anew.'
8: The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound
of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is
with every one who is born of the Spirit."
9: Nicode'mus said to him, "How can this be?"
10: Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel, and
yet you do not understand this?
11: Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know,
and bear witness to what we have seen; but you do not receive our
testimony.
12: If I have told you earthly things and you do not
believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13: No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended
from heaven, the Son of man.
14: And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
so must the Son of man be lifted up,
15: that whoever believes in him may have eternal life."
16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17: For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn
the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
18: He who believes in him is not condemned; he who does
not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the
name of the only Son of God.
19: And this is the judgment, that the light has come into
the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their
deeds were evil.
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