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You are the light of the world.  A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.  Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house.  Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them.  What is expressed in the true proverb has happened to them, “The dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A bathed sow returns to wallowing in the mire.”

It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and vexatious wife.

Because he is found by those who test him not, and he manifests himself to those who do not disbelieve him.

He who practices virtue and speaks honestly, who spurns what is gained by oppression, Brushing his hands free of contact with a bribe, stopping his ears lest he hear of bloodshed, closing his eyes lest he look on evil — He shall dwell on the heights, his stronghold shall be the rocky fastness, his food and drink in steady supply.

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense?  Who plants a vineyard without eating its produce?  Or who shepherds a flock without using some of the milk from the flock?

They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, “What were you arguing about on the way?”  But they remained silent.  They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest.  Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.”

Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; only for his own guilt shall a man be put to death.

No one shall take a hand mill or even its upper stone as a pledge for debt, for he would be taking the debtor’s sustenance as a pledge.