For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
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