Luke:11

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* Now it came to pass , as He was praying in a certain place , when He ceased , that one of His disciples said to Him , Lord , teach us to pray , as John also taught his disciples . * So He said to them , When you pray , say : Our Father in Heaven , Holy is Your name . Your kingdom come . Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven . * Give us day by day our bread sufficient for the day . * And forgive us our sins , for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us . And do not lead us into temptation , but deliver us from the evil . * And He said to them , Which of you shall have a friend , and go to him at midnight and say to him , Friend , lend me three loaves ; * for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey , and I have nothing to set before him ; * and he will answer from within and say , Do not trouble me ; the door is now shut , and my children are with me in bed ; I cannot rise and give to you . * I say to you , Though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend , yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as much as he needs . * So I say to you , Ask , and it will be given to you ; seek , and you will find ; knock , and it will be opened to you . * For everyone who asks receives , and he who seeks finds , and to him who knocks it will be opened . * If a son asks for bread from any father among you , he will not give him a stone , will he ? Or if he asks for a fish , he will not give him a serpent instead of a fish , will he ? * Or if he asks for an egg , he will not give him a scorpion , will he ? * If you then , being evil , know how to give good gifts to your children , how much more will the Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him . * And He was casting out a demon , and it was mute . So it was , when the demon had gone out , that the mute spoke ; and the multitudes marveled . * But some of them said , He casts out demons by Beelzebub , the ruler of the demons . * Others , testing Him , sought from Him a sign from Heaven . * But He , knowing their thoughts , said to them : Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation , and a house divided against a house falls . * If Satan also is divided against himself , how will his kingdom stand ? Because you say I cast out demons by Beelzebub . * And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub , by whom do your sons cast them out ? Therefore they will be your judges . * But if I cast out demons with the finger of God , then the kingdom of God has come upon you . * When a strong man , fully armed , guards his own dwelling , his goods are at peace . * But when one stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him , he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted , and divides his spoils . * He who is not with Me is against Me , and he who does not gather with Me scatters . * When an unclean spirit goes out from a man , he goes through dry places , seeking rest ; and finding none , he says , I will return to my house from which I came out . * And when he comes , he finds it swept and put in order . * Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself , and they enter and dwell there ; and the last state of that man is worse than the first . * And it happened , as He spoke these things , that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him , Blessed is the womb that bore You , and the breasts which You sucked ! * But He said , No ; rather , blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it . * And while the crowds were thickly gathered together , He began to say , This is an evil generation . It seeks a sign , and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet . * For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites , so also the Son of Man will be to this generation . * The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them , for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon ; and behold , one greater than Solomon is here . * The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it , for they repented at the preaching of Jonah ; and behold , one greater than Jonah is here . * No one , when he has lit a lamp , puts it in a secret place or under a basket , but on a lampstand , that those who come in may see the light . * The lamp of the body is the eye . Therefore , when your eye is sound , your whole body also is full of light . But when your eye is evil , your body also is full of darkness . * Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness . * If then your whole body is full of light , having no dark part , all will be full of light , as when the shining of a lamp gives you light . * And as He spoke , a certain Pharisee asked Him to dine with him . So He went in and sat down to eat . * And when the Pharisee saw it , he marveled that He had not first washed before dinner . * And the Lord said to him , Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean , but your inward part is full of robbery and wickedness . * Foolish ones ! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also ? * But rather give alms from what is within ; and behold , all things are clean to you . * But woe to you Pharisees ! For you tithe mint and rue and all kinds of herbs , and pass by justice and the love of God . These you ought to have done , without neglecting those . * Woe to you Pharisees ! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces . * Woe to you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! For you are like graves which are not seen , and the men who walk over them are not aware of them . * Then one of the lawyers answered and said to Him , Teacher , by saying these things You also insult us . * And He said , Woe to you also , lawyers ! For you load men with burdens hard to bear , and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers . * Woe to you ! For you build the tombs of the prophets , and your fathers killed them . * Therefore , you bear witness that you approve of the deeds of your fathers ; for they indeed killed them , and you build their tombs . * Therefore also the wisdom of God said , I will send them prophets and apostles , and some of them they will kill and persecute , * that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation , * from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple . Yes , I say to you , it shall be required from this generation . * Woe to you lawyers ! For you have taken away the key of knowledge . You did not enter in yourselves , and you hindered those who were entering . * And as He said these things to them , the scribes and the Pharisees began to quarrel with Him forcefully , and to cross-examine Him about many things , * lying in wait for Him , and seeking to catch Him in something He might say , in order to accuse Him .

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