Jesus Christ

Founder of Christianity

Ancient influential 156 sayings

Sayings by Jesus Christ

No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

c. 30-33 CE — From a teaching on serving God (Luke 16:13)
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Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.

c. 30-33 CE — From a warning against greed (Luke 12:15)
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For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

c. 30-33 CE — From a teaching on prayer (Matthew 7:8)
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And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:28-29)
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But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

c. 30-33 CE — From a teaching on humility and divine justice (Matthew 19:30)
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The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

c. 30-33 CE — From the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:22-23)
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For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

c. 30-33 CE — From a teaching to the Pharisees (Luke 16:15)
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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

c. 30-33 CE — From a teaching on loving enemies (Luke 6:32)
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But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:39)
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The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

c. 30-33 CE — From a teaching on the need for laborers (Matthew 9:37)
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If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.

c. 30-33 CE — From a warning against false teachers (Matthew 15:14)
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Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25:40)
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Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:37)
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He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.

c. 30-33 CE — From the story of the woman caught in adultery (John 8:7)
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The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

c. 30-33 CE — From a remark to his disciples in Gethsemane (Matthew 26:41)
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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:28-29)
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