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MAGICAL MATTHEW 29

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 7:15 Look out for pseudo- prophets, the ones who come to you dressed as sheep, but inside are ravenous wolves. You will recognise them from their fruits. Bunches of grapes are not gathered from briers, nor figs from thistles. Likewise, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the rotten tree bears bad fruit. […]

MAGICAL MATTHEW 28

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 7:13 Come in through the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads off to destruction; and there are many who go in through it. But how narrow the gate is, and how constricted the way that leads into life! And few people find it. The metaphor […]

MAGICAL MATTHEW 27

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For those who ask, receive; and those who seek, find; and for those who knock, the door will be opened. For is there anyone amongst you, who, if his if […]

MAGICAL MATTHEW 26

TRANSLATION 7:1 Do not pass judgement so that God may not pass judgement upon you; for you will be judged by the standard you use for judgement; and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the plank in […]

MAGICAL MATTHEW 25

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 6 So I am telling you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor for your body, what you will wear. Surely life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Look to the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap or gather into […]

MAGICAL MATTHEW 24

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 6: 22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is healthy your whole body will be filled with light. But if your eye is sick your whole body will be filled with darkness. If therefore the light in you is darkness, how great that darkness is! No one can […]

MAGICAL MATTHEW 23

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 6: 19 Do not accumulate for yourselves wealth on the earth where moth and and rot can eat it, and where thieves tunnel in and steal. Rather accumulate for yourselves wealth in heaven, where moth and rot cannot eat, nor thieves tunnel in and steal. For where your wealth is, there will your […]

MAGICAL MATTHEW 22

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 6: When you fast do not put on a sad face like the play-actors, for they disfigure their faces so that people will see them fasting. Amen, I tell you, they have received their wages. But when you fast, anoint your head and face with oil, so that your fasting may not be […]

MAGICAL MATTHEW 13

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 5: Don’t imagine that I have come destroy the law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to perfect. For amen I tell you, until heaven and earth perish, not a dot nor a dash will perish from the law, before everything has happened. So whoever neglects one of the […]

MAGICAL MATTHEW 21

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 6:5 And when you pray do not be like the play-actors, for they love to pray standing up in synagogues or town-square corners to be seen by people. Amen I tell you, they have received their wage. But when you pray, go into your storeroom, shut the door, and pray to your father […]