Luke 18:18-30

¹⁸A certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

 ¹⁹"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone. ²⁰You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'"

 ²¹"All these I have kept since I was a boy," he said.

 ²²When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

 ²³When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth. ²⁴Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! ²⁵Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

 ²⁶Those who heard this asked, "Who then can be saved?"

 ²⁷Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."

 ²⁸Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!"

 ²⁹"I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God ³⁰will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."

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