17 But woe to him who causes other men to stumble and to fall.
18 Be on your guard, you men of God, lest you constrain another man to fall; beware lest you fall into sinful ways yourselves.
19 Now, if your hands cause you to sin, you better cut them off; for it is better far to have no hands and not be guilty in the sight of God and men, than to be perfect in your form and lose your soul.
20 And if your feet should cause offense, you better cut them off; for it is better far to enter into life without your feet than fall beneath the curse.
21 And if your eyes, or ears, cause you to sin, you better lose them all than lose your soul.
22 Your thoughts and words and deeds will all be tried by fire.
23 Remember that you are the salt of earth; but if you lose the virtues of the salt, you are but refuse in the sight of God.
24 Retain the virtues of the salt of life and be at peace among yourselves.
25 The world is full of men who have not in themselves the salt of life, and they are lost. I come to seek and save the lost.
26 How think you? if a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, will he not leave the ninety and the nine,
27 And go out in the desert ways and mountain tops to seek the one that went astray?
28 Yes, this you know; and if he finds the one that went astray, lo, he is glad, and he rejoices over it far more than over all the ninety and the nine that did not go astray.
29 And so there is rejoicing in the courts of heaven when one of human birth who has gone forth into the ways of sin is found and brought back to the fold;
30 Yea, there is joy, more joy than over all the righteous men who never went astray.
31 And John said, Master, who may seek and save the lost? and who may heal the sick, and cast the demons out of those obsessed?
32 When we were on the way we saw a man who was not one of us, cast demons out and heal the sick.
33 He did it by the sacred Word and in the name of Christ; but we forbade him, for he did not walk with us.
34 And Jesus said, You sons of men, do you imagine that you own the powers of God?
35 And do you think that all the world must wait for you to do the works of God?
36 God is not man that he should have a special care for any man, and give him special gifts.