Luke:11
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And it came to pass ,
that ,
as he was praying in a certain place ,
when he ceased ,
one of his disciples said unto him ,
Lord ,
teach us to pray ,
as John also taught his disciples .
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And he said unto them ,
When ye pray ,
say ,
Our Father which art in heaven ,
Hallowed be thy name .
Thy kingdom come .
Thy will be done ,
as in heaven ,
so in earth .
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Give us day by day our daily bread .
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And forgive us our sins ;
for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us .
And lead us not into temptation ;
but deliver us from evil .
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And he said unto them ,
Which of you shall have a friend ,
and shall go unto him at midnight ,
and say unto him ,
Friend ,
lend me three loaves ;
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For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me ,
and I have nothing to set before him ?
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And he from within shall answer and say ,
Trouble me not :
the door is now shut ,
and my children are with me in bed ;
I cannot rise and give thee .
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I say unto you ,
Though he will not rise and give him ,
because he is his friend ,
yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth .
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And I say unto you ,
Ask ,
and it shall be given you ;
seek ,
and ye shall find ;
knock ,
and it shall be opened unto you .
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For every one that asketh receiveth ;
and he that seeketh findeth ;
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened .
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If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father ,
will he give him a stone ?
or if he ask a fish ,
will he for a fish give him a serpent ?
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Or if he shall ask an egg ,
will he offer him a scorpion ?
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If ye then ,
being evil ,
know how to give good gifts unto your children :
how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ?
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And he was casting out a devil ,
and it was dumb .
And it came to pass ,
when the devil was gone out ,
the dumb spake ;
and the people wondered .
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But some of them said ,
He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils .
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And others ,
tempting him ,
sought of him a sign from heaven .
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But he ,
knowing their thoughts ,
said unto them ,
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation ;
and a house divided against a house falleth .
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If Satan also be divided against himself ,
how shall his kingdom stand ?
because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub .
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And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils ,
by whom do your sons cast them out ?
therefore shall they be your judges .
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But if I with the finger of God cast out devils ,
no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you .
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When a strong man armed keepeth his palace ,
his goods are in peace :
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But when a stronger than he shall come upon him ,
and overcome him ,
he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted ,
and divideth his spoils .
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He that is not with me is against me :
and he that gathereth not with me scattereth .
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When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man ,
he walketh through dry places ,
seeking rest ;
and finding none ,
he saith ,
I will return unto my house whence I came out .
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And when he cometh ,
he findeth it swept and garnished .
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Then goeth he ,
and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself ;
and they enter in ,
and dwell there :
and the last state of that man is worse than the first .
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And it came to pass ,
as he spake these things ,
a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice ,
and said unto him ,
Blessed is the womb that bare thee ,
and the paps which thou hast sucked .
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But he said ,
Yea rather ,
blessed are they that hear the word of God ,
and keep it .
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And when the people were gathered thick together ,
he began to say ,
This is an evil generation :
they seek a sign ;
and there shall no sign be given it ,
but the sign of Jonas the prophet .
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For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites ,
so shall also the Son of man be to this generation .
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The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation ,
and condemn them :
for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon ;
and ,
behold ,
a greater than Solomon is here .
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The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation ,
and shall condemn it :
for they repented at the preaching of Jonas ;
and ,
behold ,
a greater than Jonas is here .
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No man ,
when he hath lighted a candle ,
putteth it in a secret place ,
neither under a bushel ,
but on a candlestick ,
that they which come in may see the light .
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The light of the body is the eye :
therefore when thine eye is single ,
thy whole body also is full of light ;
but when thine eye is evil ,
thy body also is full of darkness .
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Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness .
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If thy whole body therefore be full of light ,
having no part dark ,
the whole shall be full of light ,
as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light .
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And as he spake ,
a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him :
and he went in ,
and sat down to meat .
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And when the Pharisee saw it ,
he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner .
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And the Lord said unto him ,
Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter ;
but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness .
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Ye fools ,
did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also ?
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But rather give alms of such things as ye have ;
and ,
behold ,
all things are clean unto you .
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But woe unto you ,
Pharisees !
for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs ,
and pass over judgment and the love of God :
these ought ye to have done ,
and not to leave the other undone .
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Woe unto you ,
Pharisees !
for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues ,
and greetings in the markets .
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Woe unto you ,
scribes and Pharisees ,
hypocrites !
for ye are as graves which appear not ,
and the men that walk over them are not aware of them .
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Then answered one of the lawyers ,
and said unto him ,
Master ,
thus saying thou reproachest us also .
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And he said ,
Woe unto you also ,
ye lawyers !
for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne ,
and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers .
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Woe unto you !
for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets ,
and your fathers killed them .
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Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers :
for they indeed killed them ,
and ye build their sepulchres .
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Therefore also said the wisdom of God ,
I will send them prophets and apostles ,
and some of them they shall slay and persecute :
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That the blood of all the prophets ,
which was shed from the foundation of the world ,
may be required of this generation ;
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From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias ,
which perished between the altar and the temple :
verily I say unto you ,
It shall be required of this generation .
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Woe unto you ,
lawyers !
for ye have taken away the key of knowledge :
ye entered not in yourselves ,
and them that were entering in ye hindered .
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And as he said these things unto them ,
the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently ,
and to provoke him to speak of many things :
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Laying wait for him ,
and seeking to catch something out of his mouth ,
that they might accuse him .