- You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.
- While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”
- “If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.”
- What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.
- However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him. - The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.
- And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
- If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. 
