جَاءَكُم يُوحَنَّا يَسْلُكُ طَرِيقَ البِرّ، ولَمْ تُؤْمِنُوا بِهِ أَمَّا العَشَّارُونَ والزَّوَانِي فَآمَنُوا بِهِ وأَنْتُم رَأَيْتُم ذلِكَ ولَمْ تَنْدَمُوا ولَو مُتَأَخِّرِين، لِتُؤْمِنُوا بِهِ/John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax-collectors and the prostitutes believed him and even after you saw it, you did not change your minds and believe him
John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax-collectors and the prostitutes believed him and even after you saw it, you did not change your minds and believe him”. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 21/28-32/:”‘What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, “Son, go and work in the vineyard today.” He answered, “I will not”; but later he changed his mind and went. The father went to the second and said the same; and he answered, “I go, sir”; but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?’ They said, ‘The first.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, the tax-collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax-collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and even after you saw it, you did not change your minds and believe him”.
“If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal First Letter to the Corinthians 13/01-13/:”If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”
