Matthew 22:12
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‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
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So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
“Friend,” Jesus replied, “do what you came for.” Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus, and arrested Him.
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.
As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.