Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.

Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; just as you believed, it will be done for you.” And the servant was healed at that hour.

As Jesus was having a meal in Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Jesus and his disciples.

Jesus sent out these twelve, instructing them as follows: “Do not go to Gentile regions and do not enter any Samaritan town.

“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings!

So the slaves of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?’

He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

But so that we don’t offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were very upset and went and told their lord everything that had taken place.

So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your brother from your heart.”

Jesus said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

“Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied, “Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,

Then Peter said to him, “Look, we have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”