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  "id": "luke-18-19",
  "source": "Luke",
  "pericope": "On Riches and the Rewards of Discipleship",
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      "v": 18,
      "text": "A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”"
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "Jesus asked him,"
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "“Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God.",
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      "v": 20,
      "text": "You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”",
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      "v": 21,
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      "v": 21,
      "text": "He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”"
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      "v": 22,
      "text": "When Jesus heard these things, he said to him,"
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      "v": 22,
      "text": "“You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”",
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      "v": 23,
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      "text": "But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich."
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      "v": 24,
      "text": "Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said,"
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      "text": "“How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!",
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      "v": 25,
      "text": "For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”",
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      "text": "Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”"
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      "text": "But he said,"
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      "text": "“The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”",
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      "v": 28,
      "text": "Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”"
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      "v": 29,
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      "v": 29,
      "text": "He said to them,"
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      "v": 29,
      "text": "“Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,",
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      "v": 30,
      "text": "who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”",
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      "v": 18,
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      "v": 18,
      "text": "And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
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      "v": 19,
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "And Jesus said unto him,"
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      "text": "Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.",
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      "v": 20,
      "text": "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.",
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      "v": 21,
      "text": "And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up."
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      "v": 22,
      "text": "Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him,"
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      "v": 22,
      "text": "Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.",
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      "text": "And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich."
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      "text": "And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said,"
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      "text": "How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!",
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      "text": "For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.",
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      "text": "And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?"
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      "text": "Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee."
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      "v": 29,
      "text": "And he said unto them,"
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      "text": "Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,",
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      "v": 30,
      "text": "Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.",
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      "slug": "eternal-life",
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