God

`All things were delivered up to me by my Father, and no one doth know who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him .'

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

And he said to them, `When ye may pray, say ye: Our Father who art in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name: Thy reign come; Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on earth;

If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

but if by the finger of God I cast forth the demons, then come unawares upon you did the reign of God.

And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it !'

`But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

`Are not five sparrows sold for two assars? and one of them is not forgotten before God,

`And I say to you, Every one--whoever may confess with me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess with him before the messengers of God,

and he who hath denied me before men, shall be denied before the messengers of God,

`And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare--to whom shall they be?

so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

`Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?

and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you--ye of little faith?

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

`Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

and he laid on her his hands, and presently she was set upright, and was glorifying God.

And he said, `To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

And again he said, `To what shall I liken the reign of God?

`There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;

and they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall recline in the reign of God,

And one of those reclining with him, having heard these things, said to him, `Happy is he who shall eat bread in the reign of God;'

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'