016:030 "`No, father Abraham,' he pleaded; `but if some one goes
to them from the dead, they will repent.'
016:031 "`If they are deaf to Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham,
`they would not be led to believe even if some one should rise
from the dead.'"
017:001 Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of
stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!
017:002 It would be well for him if, with a millstone round his neck,
he were lying at the bottom of the sea, rather than that
he should cause even one of these little ones to fall.
017:003 Be on your guard. "If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him;
and if he is sorry, forgive him;
017:004 and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you,
and seven times turns again to you and says, `I am sorry,'
you must forgive him."
017:005 And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."
017:006 "If your faith," replied the Lord, "is like a mustard seed,
you might command this black-mulberry-tree, `Tear up your
roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it
would obey you.
017:007 But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep,
will say to him when he comes in from the farm, `Come at once
and take your place at table,'
017:008 and will not rather say to him, `Get my dinner ready,
make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished
my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?
017:009 Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?
017:010 So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you,
must say, "`There is no merit in our service: what we have
done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'"