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| | Luk 11:1 | One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."
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| | Luk 11:2 | He said to them, "When you pray, say: "`Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.
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| | Luk 11:3 | Give us each day our daily bread.
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| | Luk 11:4 | Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation. '"
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| | Luk 11:5 | Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, `Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
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| | Luk 11:6 | because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.'
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| | Luk 11:7 | "Then the one inside answers, `Don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.'
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| | Luk 11:8 | I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man's boldness he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
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| | Luk 11:9 | "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
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| | Luk 11:10 | For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
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| | Luk 11:11 | "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
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| | Luk 11:12 | Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
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| | Luk 11:13 | If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
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| | Luk 11:14 | Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed.
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| | Luk 11:15 | But some of them said, "By Beelzebub, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons."
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| | Luk 11:16 | Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.
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| | Luk 11:17 | Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: "Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall.
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| | Luk 11:18 | If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? I say this because you claim that I drive out demons by Beelzebub.
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| | Luk 11:19 | Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.
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| | Luk 11:20 | But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.
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| | Luk 11:21 | "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe.
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| | Luk 11:22 | But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up the spoils.
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| | Luk 11:23 | "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters.
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| | Luk 11:24 | "When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, `I will return to the house I left.'
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| | Luk 11:25 | When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.
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| | Luk 11:26 | Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first."
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| | Luk 11:27 | As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you."
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| | Luk 11:28 | He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
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| | Luk 11:29 | As the crowds increased, Jesus said, "This is a wicked generation. It asks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.
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| | Luk 11:30 | For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation.
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| | Luk 11:31 | The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now one greater than Solomon is here.
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| | Luk 11:32 | The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.
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| | Luk 11:33 | "No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.
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| | Luk 11:34 | Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness.
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| | Luk 11:35 | See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
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| | Luk 11:36 | Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you."
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| | Luk 11:37 | When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table.
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| | Luk 11:38 | But the Pharisee, noticing that Jesus did not first wash before the meal, was surprised.
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| | Luk 11:39 | Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
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| | Luk 11:40 | You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?
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| | Luk 11:41 | But give what is inside [the dish] to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.
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| | Luk 11:42 | "Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.
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| | Luk 11:43 | "Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
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| | Luk 11:44 | "Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without knowing it."
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| | Luk 11:45 | One of the experts in the law answered him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also."
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| | Luk 11:46 | Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
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| | Luk 11:47 | "Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your forefathers who killed them.
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| | Luk 11:48 | So you testify that you approve of what your forefathers did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
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| | Luk 11:49 | Because of this, God in his wisdom said, `I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.'
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| | Luk 11:50 | Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,
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| | Luk 11:51 | from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all.
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| | Luk 11:52 | "Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."
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| | Luk 11:53 | When Jesus left there, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions,
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| | Luk 11:54 | waiting to catch him in something he might say.
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