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Friday::Oct 18, 2024

Hard Words from Matthew's Gospel

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e brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.” -Matthew 3:7-8

“Give not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.” -Matthew 7:6

“But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." -Matthew 8:12

“Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.” -Matthew 8:22

“Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.” -Matthew 10:34

“So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” -Matthew 13:49-50

“It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs.” -Matthew 15:26

“But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depths of the sea.” -Matthew 18:6

“Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you: it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.” -Matthew 19:23-4