Matthew

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

“For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’