January 25 – Guard Your Heart, Guard Your Future

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, January 25th.

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Guard your heart, Guard your
future.

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Temptation rarely shows up
wearing warning labels.

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Most of the time it looks
exciting, flattering, and

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harmless.
It sounds like an opportunity,

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not a threat.
It feels like something you can

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control, not something that
could control you.

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That’s why Proverbs Chapter 7 is
so detailed.

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God isn’t being dramatic, He’s
being honest.

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He tells the story of someone
who didn’t plan to fall, didn’t

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think it would go that far, and
didn’t see the cost until it was

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too late.
The danger wasn’t just the

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moment, it was the path that led
there.

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In Proverbs Chapter 7, verses 4
to 5, we hear this invitation

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say to Wisdom, You are my
sister, and call insight your

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intimate friend, to keep you
from the forbidden woman, from

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the adulteress with her smooth
words.

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Notice how personal that
language is.

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Wisdom isn’t meant to be a
distant idea.

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It’s meant to be close, trusted,
familiar, and protective.

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When wisdom is near your heart,
it speaks up before temptation

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pulls you in.
It helps you see past smooth

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words and quick thrills to the
consequences hiding underneath.

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Jesus gives us the anchor for
guarding our hearts.

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In Matthew chapter 22 verse 37,
he says you shall love the Lord

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your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all

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your mind.
That kind of love changes

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everything.
When your heart is fully focused

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on God, temptation loses its
shine.

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When your mind is anchored in
truth, lies don’t sound as

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convincing.
Loving God fully doesn’t make

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you immune to temptation, but it
makes you stronger than it.

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Here’s the truth.
Whatever has your heart will

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shape your future.
If your heart is filled with

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desire for approval, attention,
or pleasure, those things will

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guide your choices.
But if your heart is filled with

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love for God, wisdom, and truth,
your decisions start to reflect

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that love even when no one is
watching.

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Guarding your heart isn’t about
fear.

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It’s about direction.
It’s about protecting the future

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God is building in you.
Temptation always promises more

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than it delivers.
It offers excitement but leaves

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regret.
It offers escape but creates

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bondage.
God’s way may require

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self-control, but it leads to
freedom.

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When wisdom is your close friend
and love for God is your deepest

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desire, you don’t have to fall
for every trap that looks

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appealing.
You’re not missing out.

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By guarding your heart, you’re
protecting your peace, your

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purpose, and the future God has
prepared for you.

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Choose wisdom.
Choose love.

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Choose the path that leads to
life.

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Let’s pray Heavenly Father, help
me guard my heart with wisdom

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and truth when temptation tries
to pull me in with smooth words

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and false promises.
Give me clarity and strength to

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walk away.
Teach me to love you with all my

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heart, soul and mind and let
that love guide every choice I

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make.
Protect my future as I choose

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your way today in Jesus name,
Amen.

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to encounter, from dryness to

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delight.
Seek teaches you how to pursue

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God with passion and
intentionality.

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Savor trains your heart to
recognize and enjoy His presence

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in every season.
C opens your spiritual eyes to

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God’s power, glory, and beauty
at work in your life.

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Satisfy leads your soul into
fullness, strength, and deep

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contentment in Him alone.
Sing ignites joy, gratitude, and

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worship that rises naturally
from intimacy with God.

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Stay anchors your heart in
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distractions try to pull you
away, and Stand equips you to

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remain firm in God’s justice,
protection, and victory.

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Now I invite you to spend time
with God in today’s three-year

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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs Chapter 7, verses 1 to

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27 World English Bible.
My son, keep my words.

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Lay up my commandments within
you.

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Keep my commandments and live
guard my teaching as the apple

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of your eye.
Bind them on your fingers.

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Write them on the tablet of your
heart.

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Tell wisdom you are my sister.
Call understanding your

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relative, that they may keep you
from the strange woman, from the

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foreigner who flatters with her
words.

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For at the window of my house I
looked out through my lattice.

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I saw among the simple ones, I
discerned among the youths a

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young man, void of
understanding, passing through

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the street near her corner.
He went the way to her house in

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the twilight, in the evening of
the day, in the middle of the

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night and in the darkness.
Behold, there a woman met him

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with the attire of a prostitute
and with crafty intent.

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She is loud and defiant.
Her feet don’t stay in her house

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now.
She is in the streets now, in

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the squares and lurking at every
corner.

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So she caught him and kissed him
with an impudent face.

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She said to him, sacrifices of
peace, offerings are with me

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today.
I have paid my vows.

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Therefore I came out to meet
you, to diligently seek your

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face and I have found you.
I have spread my couch with

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carpets of tapestry with striped
clothes of the yarn of Egypt.

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I have perfumed my bed with
myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

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Come, let’s take our fill of
loving until the morning.

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Let’s solace ourselves with
loving.

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For my husband isn’t at home.
He has gone on a long journey.

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He has taken a bag of money with
him.

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He will come home at the full
moon.

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With persuasive words she led
him astray.

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With the flattering of her lips
she seduced him.

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He followed her immediately.
As an ox goes to the slaughter,

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as a fool stepping into a noose,
until an arrow strikes through

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his liver, As a bird hurries to
the snare and doesn’t know that

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it will cost his life.
Now, therefore, sons, listen to

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me.
Pay attention to the words of my

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mouth.
Don’t let your heart turn to her

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ways.
Don’t go astray in her paths,

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for she has thrown down many
wounded.

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Yes, all her slain are a mighty
army.

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Her house is the way to she all
going down to the rooms of

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death.
Psalm chapter 110 verse one

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world English Bible a Psalm by
David Yahweh says to my Lord sit

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at my right hand until I make
your enemies your footstool for

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your feet.
Matthew Chapter 22 World English

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Bible Jesus answered and spoke
to them again in parables,

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saying the Kingdom of heaven is
like a certain king who made a

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wedding feast for his son and
sent out his servants to call

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those who were invited to the
wedding feast, but they would

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not come again.
He sent out other servants

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saying, tell those who are
invited, behold, I have prepared

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my dinner, my cattle and my
fatlings are killed, and all

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things are ready come to the
wedding feast.

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But they made light of it and
went their ways, one to his own

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farm, another to his
merchandise, and the rest

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grabbed his servants, treated
them shamefully, and killed

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them.
When the king heard that, he was

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angry and sent his armies,
destroyed those murderers and

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burned their city.
Then he said to his servants,

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the wedding is ready, but those
who were invited weren’t worthy.

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Go, therefore to the
intersections of the highways

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and as many as you may find,
invite to the wedding feast.

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Those servants went out into the
highways and gathered together,

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as many as they found both bad
and good.

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The wedding was filled with
guests, but when the king came

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in to see the guests, he saw
there a man who didn’t have on

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wedding clothing, and he said to
him, Friend, how did you come in

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here not wearing wedding
clothing?

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He was speechless.
Then the king said to the

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servants, bind him hand and
foot, take him away and throw

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him into the outer darkness.
That is where the weeping and

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grinding of teeth will be, for
many are called, but few chosen.

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Then the Pharisees went and took
counsel how they might entrap

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him in his talk.
They sent their disciples to him

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along with the Herodians,
saying, Teacher, we know that

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you are honest and teach the way
of God in truth, no matter whom

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you teach, for you aren’t
partial to anyone.

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Tell us, therefore, what do you
think?

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Is it lawful to pay taxes to
Caesar or not?

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But Jesus perceived their
wickedness and said, Why do you

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test me, you hypocrites?
Show me the tax money.

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They brought to him a denarius.
He asked them, whose is this

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image and inscription?
They said to him Caesar’s.

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Then he said to them, Give
therefore to Caesar the things

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that are Caesar’s, and to God
the things that are gods.

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When they heard it, they
marvelled and left him and went

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away.
On that day Sadducees, those who

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say that there is no
resurrection, came to him.

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They asked him, saying, Teacher
Moses said, If a man dies having

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no children, his brother shall
marry his wife and raise up

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offspring for his brother.
Now they were with us seven

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brothers.
The first married and died, and

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having no offspring, left his
wife to his brother in the same

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way the second also, and the 3rd
to the 7th.

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After them all the woman died in
the resurrection.

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Therefore whose wife will she be
of the seven?

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For they all had her, but Jesus
answered them.

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You are mistaken, not knowing
the Scriptures nor the power of

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God.
For in the resurrection they

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neither marry nor are given in
marriage, but are like God’s

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angels in heaven.
But concerning the resurrection

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of the dead, haven’t you read
that which was spoken to you by

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God, saying, I am the God of
Abraham, and the God of Isaac,

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and the God of Jacob?
God is not the God of the dead,

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but of the living.
When the multitudes heard it,

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they were astonished at His
teaching.

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But the Pharisees, when they
heard that He had silenced the

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Sadducees, gathered themselves
together.

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One of them, a lawyer, asked him
a question, testing him.

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Teacher, which is the greatest
commandment in the law?

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Jesus said to him, You shall
love the Lord your God with all

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your heart, with all your soul,
and with all your mind.

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This is the first and great
commandment.

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A second likewise is this.
You shall love your neighbor as

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yourself.
The whole law and the prophets

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depend on these two
commandments.

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Now while the Pharisees were
gathered together, Jesus asked

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them a question, saying, What do
you think of the Christ?

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Whose son is he?
They said to him of David.

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He said to them, how then does
David in the Spirit call him

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Lord, saying, the Lord said to
my Lord, sit on my right hand

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until I make your enemies a
footstool for your feet.

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If then David calls him Lord,
how is he his son?

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No one was able to answer him a
word, neither did any man dare

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ask him any more questions from
that day forward.

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