And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. He had also seven sons and three daughters.
He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. “These seven are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the whole earth.”
And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light.
who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
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