Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Matthew by R F Weymouth
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for I solemnly tell you that you will not have gone the round
of all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. 010:024 "The learner is never superior to his teacher, and the servant is never superior to his master. 010:025 Enough for the learner to be on a level with his teacher, and for the servant to be on a level with his master. If they have called the master of the house Baal-zebul, how much more will they slander his servants? 010:026 Fear them not, however; there is nothing veiled which will not be uncovered, nor secret which will not become known. 010:027 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what is whispered into your ear, proclaim upon the roofs of the houses. 010:028 "And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. 010:029 Do not two sparrows sell for a halfpenny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave. 010:030 But as for you, the very hairs on your heads are all numbered. 010:031 Away then with fear; you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows. 010:032 "Every man who acknowledges me before men I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in Heaven. 010:033 But whoever disowns me before men I also will disown before my Father who is in Heaven. 010:034 "Do not suppose that I came to bring peace to the earth: I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 010:035 For I came to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; 010:036 and a man's own family will be his foes. 010:037 Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy |
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