And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.
And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.
Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.
Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.
Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:
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.
And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One.
And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?
So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
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?
Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:
Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?
And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us.
I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most.
And Ezra took the book, opening it before the eyes of all the people (for he was higher than the people); and when it was open, all the people got to their feet:
I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.
Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.
But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.
There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.
I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.
So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others.
But Balaam, in answer; said to the servants of Balak, Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to do anything more or less than the orders of the Lord my God.
Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.
Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour.
No longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother, very dear to me specially, but much more to you, in the flesh as well as in the Lord.
Being certain that you will do my desire, I am writing to you, in the knowledge that you will do even more than I say.
Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.
And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.
He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.
Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.
Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.
He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.
Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.
Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.
A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.
There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.
The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.
It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
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The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
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