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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Matthew by R F Weymouth
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him by the throat and nearly strangling him he exclaimed,
"`Pay me all you owe.'
018:029 "His fellow servant therefore fell at his feet and entreated him,
"`Only give me time,' he said, `and I will pay you.'
018:030 "He would not, however, but went and threw him into prison
until he should pay what was due.
018:031 His fellow servants, therefore, seeing what had happened,
were exceedingly angry; and they came and told their master
without reserve all that had happened.
018:032 At once his master called him and said, "`Wicked servant,
I forgave you all that debt, because you entreated me:
018:033 ought not you also to have had pity on your fellow servant,
just as I had pity on you?'
018:034 "So his master, greatly incensed, handed him over to the jailers
until he should pay all he owed him.
018:035 "In the same way my Heavenly Father will deal with you, if you
do not all of you forgive one another from your hearts."
019:001 When Jesus had finished these discourses, He removed from Galilee
and came into that part of Judaea which lay beyond the Jordan.
019:002 And a vast multitude followed him, and He cured them there.
019:003 Then came some of the Pharisees to Him to put Him to the proof
by the question, "Has a man a right to divorce his wife
whenever he chooses?"
019:004 "Have you not read," He replied, "that He who made them `made them'
from the beginning `male and female,
019:005 and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?
019:006 Thus they are no longer two, but `one'! What therefore God
has joined together, let not man separate."
019:007 "Why then," said they, "did Moses command the husband to give
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