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Luke 6 (NIV)
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"But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
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bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
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If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic.
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Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
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Do to others as you would have them do to you.
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"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even `sinners' love those who love them.
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And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even `sinners' do that.
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And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even `sinners' lend to `sinners,' expecting to be repaid in full.
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But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
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Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
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"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
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Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
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He also told them this parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?
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A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
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"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
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How can you say to your brother, `Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
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2 Corinthians 4
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Therefore, since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart.
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Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
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And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
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The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
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For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," [1] made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
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But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
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We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
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persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
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We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
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For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body.
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So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
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It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." [2] With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak,
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because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence.
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All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
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Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
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For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
6 Gen. 1:3
13 Psalm 116:10
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