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Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For God commanded, `Honor your father and your mother,' and, `He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'
And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord,
And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord."
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.
So the soldiers did this. But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Mag'dalene.
When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

