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The Bible is a great classic everyone should knowh - whether they believe it's from God, or figurative and allegorical .
Either way, there have never been more impactful teachings in all history than those of the Holy Man from Galilee; and if we lived by them, there really would (theoretically) be world peace. There is always life changing Power in the Word for those who believe in His simple yet demanding formula for living, whether or not they "do" organized religion. Of course, Christ knew we would have to live through war and turmoil, and taught how to have personal peace in the midst of it -with hope for a better world. (St. John 18:37: To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice.)
Matt 5:7 blessed are the merciful
Matt 5:9 blessed are the peacemakers
Matt 5:16 let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works
Mat 5:44 Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you...for if ye love them which love you , what reward have ye? do not even the (hypocritical, self righteous) publicans the same?...and if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?
Matt 6: 19-21 - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust (and inflation etc.!) doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust ( nor inflation?!) doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matt 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matt 7: 1,2 Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Matt 7:3-5 - And why beholdest thou the mote (small offense) that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam (large offense) that is in thine own eye?...Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly...
Matt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them
Matt 9:29: ...According to your faith, be it unto you.
Matt 10:26 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known
Matt 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Matt 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven
Matt 19:18 ...Thou shalt not bear false witness
Matt 20:27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Matt 23:39 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as theyself
Matt 26:40 ...Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me
Luke 11:46: Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! For ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 12: 3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light ; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Luke 14:11 (and 18:14) For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke 15:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower (huge new government outlay?!) , sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Luke 16: 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Luke 18: 20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour y father and thy mother.
Luke 20:46, 47 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers; the same shall receive greater damnation.
St. John 10: 11-13 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth....The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
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