And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to go into hell.
Matthew 5:30.
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So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or your sister has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.
Matthew 5:23-24.
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But Ruth said, “Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.”
Ruth 1:16.
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And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.
Acts 1:26.
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Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36.
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Thus says the LORD: Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me, and what is my resting place?
Isaiah 66:1.
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Let this be written for a future generation, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD.
Psalm 102:18.
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And they brought one. Then [Jesus] said to them, “Whose head is this, and whose title?” They answered, “The emperor’s.” Jesus said to them, “Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were utterly amazed at him.
Mark 12:16-17.
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The righteousness of your decrees is everlasting; grant me understanding, that I may live.
Psalm 119:144.
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I will recount the gracious deeds of the LORD, the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, because of all that the LORD has done for us, and the great favour to the house of Israel that he has shown them according to his mercy, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
Isaiah 63:7.
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You rule the raging of the sea and still the surging of its waves.
Psalm 89:9.
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If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
1 Corinthians 15:19.
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Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his mercy endures for ever.
Psalm 136:1.
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But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
Mark 10:38.
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Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, “You lack one thing: go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
Mark 10:21.
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