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Teachings about Forgiveness and Faith
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# Chapter 17
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1. One day Jesus said to his disciples, *"There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!*
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2. *It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to fall into sin.*
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3. *So watch yourselves!*
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*"If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive.*
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4. *Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive."*
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5. The apostles said to the Lord, "Show us how to increase our faith."
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6. The Lord answered, *"If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'May you be uprooted and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you!*
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7. *"When a servant comes in from plowing or taking care of sheep, does his master say, 'Come in and eat with me'?*
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8. *No, he says, 'Prepare my meal, put on your apron, and serve me while I eat. Then you can eat later.'*
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9. *And does the master thank the servant for doing what he was told to do? Of course not.*
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10. *In the same way, when you obey me you should say, 'We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.'"*
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Ten Healed of Leprosy
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11. As Jesus continued on toward Jerusalem, he reached the border between Galilee and Samaria.
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12. As he entered a village there, ten men with leprosy stood at a distance,
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13. crying out, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"
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14. He looked at them and said, *"Go show yourselves to the priests."* And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy.
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15. One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, "Praise God!"
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16. He fell to the ground at Jesus' feet, thanking him for what he had done. This man was a Samaritan.
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17. Jesus asked, *"Didn't I heal ten men? Where are the other nine?*
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18. *Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?"*
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19. And Jesus said to the man, *"Stand up and go. Your faith has healed you."*
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The Coming of the Kingdom
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20. One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, "When will the Kingdom of God come?"
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Jesus replied, *"The Kingdom of God can't be detected by visible signs.*
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21. *You won't be able to say, 'Here it is!' or 'It's over there!' For the Kingdom of God is already among you."*
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22. Then he said to his disciples, *"The time is coming when you will long to see the day when the Son of Man returns, but you won't see it.*
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23. *People will tell you, 'Look, there is the Son of Man,' or 'Here he is,' but don't go out and follow them.*
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24. *For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day when the Son of Man comes.*
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25. *But first the Son of Man must suffer terribly and be rejected by this generation.*
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26. *"When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah's day.*
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27. *In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them all.*
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28. *"And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business--eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building--*
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29. *until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.*
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30. *Yes, it will be 'business as usual' right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed.*
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31. *On that day a person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack. A person out in the field must not return home.*
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32. *Remember what happened to Lot's wife!*
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33. *If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.*
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34. *That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left.*
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35. *Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left."*
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37. "Where will this happen, Lord?" the disciples asked.
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Jesus replied, *"Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near."*
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