Matthew:15

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* Then was brought to him one possessed with a demon , blind and mute : and he healed him , insomuch that the mute man spoke and saw . * And all the multitudes were amazed , and said , Can this be the son of David ? * But when the Pharisees heard it , they said , This man does not cast out demons , but by Beelzebul the prince of the demons . * And knowing their thoughts he said to them , Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation ; and every city or house divided against itself will not stand : * and if Satan casts out Satan , he is divided against himself ; how then will his kingdom stand ? * And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons , by whom do your (note :){+}(:note ) sons cast them out ? Therefore they will be your {+} judges . * But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons , then the kingdom of God has come upon you (note :){+}(:note ). * Or how can one enter into the house of the strong [man ,] and spoil his goods , except he first binds the strong [man ]? And then he will spoil his house . * He who is not with me is against me , and he who does not gather with me scatters . * Therefore I say to you (note :){+}(:note ), Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to men ; but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven . * And whoever will speak a word against the Son of Man , it will be forgiven him ; but whoever will speak against the Holy Spirit , it will not be forgiven him , neither in this age , nor in that which is to come . * But the unclean spirit , when he has gone out of the man , passes through waterless places , seeking rest , and does not find it . * Then he says , I will return into my house from where I came out ; and when he has come , he finds it empty , swept , and garnished . * Then he goes , and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself , and they enter in and dwell there : and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first . * Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him , saying , Teacher , we want to see a sign from you . * But he answered and said to them , An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign ; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet . * The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation , and will condemn it : for they repented at the preaching of Jonah ; and look , a greater than Jonah is here . * The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation , and will condemn it : for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon ; and look , a greater than Solomon is here . * Now as he spoke , a Pharisee asks him to dine with him : and he went in , and sat down to meat . * And when the Pharisee saw it , he marveled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner . * And the Lord said to him , Now you (note :){+}(:note ) Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter , but inside you {+} are full from extortion and lack of self-control . * You blind Pharisee , cleanse first the inside of the cup , that its outside may become clean also . * Woe to you (note :){+}(:note ) Pharisees ! For you {+} tithe mint and dill and cumin , and have left undone the weightier matters of the law , justice , and mercy , and faith : but these you {+} ought to have done , and not to have left the other undone . * Woe to you (note :){+}(:note ) Pharisees ! For you {+} love the chief seats in the synagogues , and the salutations in the marketplaces . * Woe to you (note :){+}(:note )! For you {+} are as the tombs which do not appear , and the men who walk over [them ] do not know it . * And one of the lawyers answering says to him , Teacher , in saying this you reproach us also . * And he said , Woe to you (note :){+}(:note ) lawyers also ! For you {+} bind loads that are heavy and grievous to be borne , and lay them on men 's shoulders ; but you {+} yourselves will not move them with one of your {+} fingers . * Woe to you (note :){+}(:note )! For you {+} build the tombs of the prophets , and garnish the tombs of the righteous , * and say , If we had been in the days of our fathers , we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets . * Therefore you (note :){+}(:note ) witness to yourselves , that you {+} are sons of those who slew the prophets . * You (note :){+}(:note ) fill up then the measure of your {+} fathers . * Therefore , look , I send to you (note :){+}(:note ) prophets , and wise men , and scribes : some of them you {+} will kill and persecute : * that on you (note :){+}(:note ) may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth , from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah , who perished between the sanctuary and the altar . * Truly I say to you (note :){+}(:note ), All these things will come upon this generation . * And when he came out from there , the scribes and the Pharisees began to press on [him ] vehemently , and to provoke him to speak of many things ; * laying wait for him , to catch something out of his mouth . * In the mean time , when the multitude was gathered together , he began to say to his disciples first of all , * Don 't fear them : for there is nothing covered , that will not be revealed ; and hid , that will not be known . * What I tell you (note :){+}(:note ) in the darkness , speak {+} in the light ; and what you {+} hear in the ear , proclaim on the housetops . * A city set on a hill can 't be hid . * Neither do [men ] light a lamp , and put it under the bushel , but on the lampstand ; and it shines to all who are in the house . * And don 't be afraid of those who kill the body , but are not able to kill the soul : but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell . * Are not two sparrows sold for $10 ? and not one of them will fall on the ground without your (note :){+}(:note ) Father : * but the very hairs of your (note :){+}(:note ) head are all numbered . * Don 't be afraid therefore : you (note :){+}(:note ) are of more value than many sparrows . * Everyone therefore who will confess me before men , I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven . * But whoever will deny me before men , I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven . * Don 't think that I came to send peace on the earth : I didn 't come to send peace , but a sword . * For I came to set a man at variance against his father , and the daughter against her mother , and the daughter in law against her mother in law : * and a man 's foes [will be ] those of his own household .

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