Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.

You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was standing in heaven with someone seated on it!

You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”

Then they told me: “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

The blood of the saints and prophets was found in her, along with the blood of all those who had been killed on the earth.”

Then I heard every creature – in heaven, on earth, under the earth, in the sea, and all that is in them – singing: “To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb be praise, honor, glory, and ruling power forever and ever!”

Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, because the patch will pull away from the garment and the tear will be worse.

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

And pointing toward his disciples he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while the whole crowd stood on the shore.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.