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Bible (Basic English) — Matthew (1941/1949)

“ It is like children seated in the market-places, crying out to one another,
11:17 We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief.
11:18 For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.
11:19 The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.
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Bible (Basic English) — Matthew (1941/1949)

“ If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
6:24 No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
6:25 So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
6:26 See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses
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Bible (Basic English) — Matthew (1941/1949)

“ I came not to send peace but a sword.
10:35 For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:
10:36 And a man will be hated by those of his house.
10:37 He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.
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