I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
