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January 15 - Wise Up for Real Life · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in Scripture and relevant for today, January 15th.
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  Wise up for real life. Have you ever looked back and
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  thought, I really wish I had listened?
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  Maybe someone warned you about a relationship that would end
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  badly, a habit that would catch up with you, or a shortcut that
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  seemed harmless at the time. In the moment, advice can feel
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  annoying or unnecessary. But later, when the consequences
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  hit, wisdom suddenly makes a lot more sense.
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  Real life has a way of teaching hard lessons.
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  When we ignore good counsel in Proverbs chapter 4, wisdom isn't
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  presented as boring or optional. It's urgent.
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  It's personal. Verse 6 says do not forsake her,
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  and she will keep you. Love her and she will guard you.
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  Wisdom isn't trying to control you, it's trying to protect you.
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  Like guardrails on a dangerous Rd.
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  Wisdom keeps you from veering off into choices that can cost
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  you peace, integrity, or direction.
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  God knows the terrain ahead even when you don't, and His wisdom
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  is one of the main ways He keeps you safe.
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  Jesus connects this directly to real life in Matthew chapter 12
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  verse 35 when he says the good person out of his good treasure
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  brings forth good and the evil person out of his evil treasure
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  brings forth evil. In other words, what you store
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  up inside eventually spills out. Your words, reactions,
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  attitudes, and decisions all flow from what's filling your
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  heart. If you're constantly feeding on
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  negativity, compromise, or empty trends, that's what will show up
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  in your life. But when you fill your heart
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  with God's truth, wisdom, and perspective, something different
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  overflows. Wisdom isn't just about knowing
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  the right thing. It's about loving the right
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  thing. Proverbs says wisdom guards
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  those who love her. That means choosing God's voice
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  even when it's quieter than the noise around you.
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  It means listening when Scripture challenges you, when
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  godly advice nudges you, and when the Holy Spirit gently
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  warns you. Wisdom often speaks before
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  trouble arrives. The question is whether we'll
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  pay attention. Real wisdom prepares you for
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  real life. It shapes how you handle
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  pressure, conflict, temptation, and decisions that don't come
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  with clear answers. It helps you pause before you
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  speak, choose before you react, and think long term instead of
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  living for the moment. When you hold on to wisdom, it
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  holds on to you. You don't have to learn
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  everything the hard way. God is offering wisdom freely,
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  lovingly, and daily. Don't just hear it, hold on to
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  it. Let it guard your heart and
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  guide your steps. Let's pray.
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  Heavenly Father, help me not just listen to Your wisdom, but
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  truly value it. Teach me to love what You love
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  and to fill my heart with Your truth.
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  Guard my mind, my words and my choices so that my life reflects
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  Your goodness. Keep me from foolish paths and
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  lead me in wisdom that protects and shapes my future in Jesus
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  to encounter, from dryness to delight.
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  Seek teaches you how to pursue God with passion and
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  intentionality. Savor trains your heart to
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  recognize and enjoy His presence in every season.
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  C Opens your spiritual eyes to God's power, glory, and beauty
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  at work in your life. Satisfy leads your soul into
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  with God in today's three-year Bible reading plan, Proverbs
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  chapter 4 verses 1 to 9 World English Bible.
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  Listen sons to a father's instruction.
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  Pay attention and no understanding, for I give you
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  sound learning. Don't forsake my law, for I was
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  a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my
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  mother. He taught me and said to me, let
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  your heart retain my words, Keep my commandments and live.
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  Get wisdom, get understanding. Don't forget and don't deviate
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  from the words of my mouth. Don't forsake her and she will
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  preserve you. Love her and she will keep you.
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  Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom.
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  Yes, though it costs all your possessions.
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  Get understanding. Esteem her and she will exalt
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  you. She will bring you to honor.
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  When you embrace her, she will give to your head a Garland of
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  grace. She will deliver a crown of
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  splendor to you. Matthew chapter 12 World English
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  Bible At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the
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  grain fields. His disciples were hungry and
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  began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
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  But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, Behold, your
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  disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.
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  But he said to them, Haven't you read what David did when he was
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  hungry, and those who were with him, how he entered into God's
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  house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to
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  eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
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  Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the
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  priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?
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  But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.
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  But if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not
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  sacrifice, you wouldn't have condemned the guiltless, for the
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  Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.
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  He departed from there and went into their synagogue, and
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  behold, there was a man with a withered hand.
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  They asked him, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day, so that
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  they might accuse him? He said to them, What man is
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  there among you who has one sheep?
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  And if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won't he
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  grab onto it and lift it out? Of how much more value then is a
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  man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do
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  good on the Sabbath day. Then He told the man, Stretch
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  out your hand. He stretched it out, and it was
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  restored whole just like the other.
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  But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how they
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  might destroy him. Jesus perceiving that, withdrew
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  from there. Great multitudes followed him,
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  and he healed them all and commanded them that they should
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  not make him known that it might be fulfilled.
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  Which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, Behold my
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  servant whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul is well
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  pleased, I will put my spirit on him.
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  He will proclaim justice to the nation's.
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  He will not strive nor shout, neither will anyone hear his
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  voice in the streets. He won't break a bruised Reed,
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  He won't quench a smoking flax, Until He leads justice to
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  victory in his name the nations will hope.
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  Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute was brought to
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  him, and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both
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  spoke and saw. All the multitudes were amazed
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  and said, Can this be the son of David?
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  But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man does not
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  cast out demons except by Beelzebul the Prince of the
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  demons. Knowing their thoughts, Jesus
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  said to them, Every Kingdom divided against itself is
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  brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against
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  itself will not stand. If Satan casts out Satan, he is
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  divided against himself. How then will his Kingdom stand?
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  If I by Beelzebul cast out demons?
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  By whom do your children cast them out?
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  Therefore they will be your judges.
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  But if I, by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God's
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  Kingdom has come upon you. Or how can one enter into the
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  House of the strong man and plunder his goods?
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  Unless he first bind the strong man, then he will plunder his
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  house. He who is not with me is against
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  me, and he who doesn't gather with me scatters.
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  Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven
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  men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven
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  men. Whoever speaks a word against
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  the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him.
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  But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be
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  forgiven him either in this age or in that which is to come.
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  Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree
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  corrupt and its fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by its
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  fruit. You offspring of Vipers, how can
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  you, being evil, speak good things?
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  For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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  The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things,
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  and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.
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  I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give
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  account of it in the day of Judgment, for by your words you
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  will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
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  Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, Teacher, we
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  want to see a sign from you. But He answered them.
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  An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign,
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  but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the
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  prophet. For as Jonah was 3 days and
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  three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so will the Son of
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  Man be 3 days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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  The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgement with this
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  generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the
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  preaching of Jonah and behold, someone greater than Jonah is
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  here. The queen of the South will rise
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  up in the judgement with this generation and will condemn it,
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  for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of
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  Solomon, and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
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  When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through
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  waterless places seeking rest, and doesn't find it.
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  Then he says, I will return into my house from which I came.
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  And when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put
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  an order. Then he goes and takes with
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  himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter
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  in and dwell there. The last state of that man
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  becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this
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  evil generation. While he was yet speaking to the
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  multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside,
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  seeking to speak to him. One said to him, Behold, your
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  mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to
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  you. But he answered him, who spoke
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  to him, Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?
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  He stretched out his hand toward his disciples and said, Behold
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  my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my
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  father who is in heaven, he is my brother and sister and
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