What did Jesus say about Spiritual Poverty?

² “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

³ In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

⁴ An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.”

⁷ “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

⁸ “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”

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¹⁰ “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

²³ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

²⁴ You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

¹ “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

² They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

³ They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.

⁴ But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

⁵⁴ “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.

⁵⁵ When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.

⁵⁶ You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?

¹³ “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁴ But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

¹⁵ You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

¹⁶ Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

²⁸ But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

²⁹ He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

³⁰ He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.

³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father?” […] “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

²¹ “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?

²² For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known, neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light.

²³ If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”

²⁴ “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you; and more will be given to you who hear.

²⁵ For whoever has, to him more will be given; and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”

⁴¹ “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

¹⁷ “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”

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¹⁹ “What things?”

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²⁵ “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

²⁶ Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

²⁴ The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

²⁵ When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

²⁶ Then he goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

¹¹ “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

¹² that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”

¹⁵ “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

²³ “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

²⁴ Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

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²⁶ “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

² “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

³ I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

⁵ I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”