The Rich Young Man

¹⁷uAnd as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and vknelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to winherit eternal life?” ¹⁸And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. ¹⁹You know the commandments: x‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” ²⁰And he said to him, “Teacher, yall these I have kept from my youth.” ²¹And Jesus, zlooking at him, aloved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, bsell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have ctreasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” ²²dDisheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

²³And Jesus elooked around and said to his disciples, f“How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter gthe kingdom of God!” ²⁴And the disciples hwere amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, i“Children, jhow difficult it is2 to enter gthe kingdom of God! ²⁵It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter gthe kingdom of God.” ²⁶And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him,3 “Then who can be saved?” ²⁷Jesus klooked at them and said, l“With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” ²⁸Peter began to say to him, “See, mwe have left everything and followed you.” ²⁹Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, nthere is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and ofor the gospel, ³⁰who will not receive a hundredfold pnow in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, qwith persecutions, and in rthe age to come eternal life. ³¹But smany who are first will be last, and the last first.”

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