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And I say to you that to everyone who gives witness to me before men, the Son of man will give witness before the angels of God.

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But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before the angels of God.

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And if anyone says a word against the Son of man, he will have forgiveness: but for him who says evil words against the Holy Spirit, there will be no forgiveness.

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And when they take you before the Synagogues and the authorities and the rulers, take no thought about what answers you will give, or what you will say:

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For the Holy Spirit will make clear to you in that very hour what to say.

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And one of the people said to him, Master, give an order to my brother to make division of the heritage with me.

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But he said, Man, who made me a judge or a maker of decisions for you?

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And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

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And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

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And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.

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And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

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And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

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But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

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So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.