From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.
Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.
Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.
For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
But I say to you, Take no oaths at all: not by the heaven, because it is the seat of God;
So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.
Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.
But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:
See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?
Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:
Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?
Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.
And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:
And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:
Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,
And said, O Lord, the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be feared, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws:
But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.
Then answering them I said, The God of heaven, he will be our help; so we his servants will go on with our building: but you have no part or right or any name in Jerusalem.
Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.
And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:
And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.
And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.
And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters.
But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their haters, who had rule over them: but when they came back and made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation;
You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.
So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,
For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.
Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?
For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;
For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.
At the people's request he sent birds, and gave them the bread of heaven for food.
The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.
The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
<LAMED> For ever, O Lord, your word is fixed in heaven.
Your help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.
May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, send you blessing out of Zion,
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