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me and nostuyx rlly liked the CsBa dynamic (i meeaaan i made the caesium fleshed out personality and nost made barium’s fleshed out personality) so i drew something awesome

CAESIUM BARIUM FRIEND YAOI!!

or. something like that. yeah

Do Not Judge

1 ‘Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged. 2 For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use. 3 Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, “Let me take the splinter out of your eye,” and look, there’s a beam of wood in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye. 6 Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

Ask, Search, Knock

7 ‘Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 Who among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him. 12 Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Entering the Kingdom

13 ‘Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it. 14 How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.

15 ‘Be on your guard against false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravaging wolves. 16 You’ll recognise them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? 17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So you’ll recognise them by their fruit.

21 ‘Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, “Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, and do many miracles in your name? ” 23 Then I will announce to them, “I never knew you. Depart from me, you lawbreakers!”

The Two Foundations

24 ‘Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash.’

28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, 29 because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like their scribes. — Matthew 7 | Christian Standard Bible Anglicised (CSBA) Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Copyright © 2024 by Holman Bible Publishers. Cross References: 1 Samuel 15:33; 1 Samuel 24:13; 1 Kings 13:18; Job 22:16; Psalm 6:8; Psalm 16:11; Psalm 34:4; Psalm 37:4; Psalm 84:11; Psalm 109:17; Proverbs 9:8; Proverbs 10:8; Proverbs 10:25; Proverbs 23:9; Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 63:7; Daniel 4:14; Matthew 5:17; Matthew 8:1; Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:33; Matthew 22:40; Matthew 25:10; Luke 6:37; Luke 6:41-42 and 43; Luke 11:10; Luke 13:24; John 3:14; Romans 2:1; 2 Corinthians 11:3; James 3:12

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet

1 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables: 2 ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants to summon those invited to the banquet, but they didn’t want to come. 4 Again, he sent out other servants and said, “Tell those who are invited: See, I’ve prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”

5 ‘But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business, 6 while the rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. 7 The king was enraged, and he sent out his troops, killed those murderers, and burned down their city.

8 ‘Then he told his servants, “The banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. 9 Go then to where the roads exit the city and invite everyone you find to the banquet.” 10 So those servants went out on the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding banquet was filled with guests. 11 When the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed for a wedding. 12 So he said to him, “Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes? ” The man was speechless.

13 ‘Then the king told the attendants, “Tie him up hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

14 ‘For many are invited, but few are chosen.’

God and Caesar

15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap him by what he said. 16 So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians. ‘Teacher,’ they said, ‘we know that you are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You don’t care what anyone thinks nor do you show partiality. 17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? ’

18 Perceiving their malicious intent, Jesus said, ‘Why are you testing me, hypocrites? 19 Show me the coin used for the tax.’ They brought him a denarius. 20 ‘Whose image and inscription is this? ’ he asked them.

21 ‘Caesar’s,’ they said to him.

Then he said to them, ‘Give, then, to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.’ 22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

23 That same day some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up to him and questioned him: 24 ‘Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died. Having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second also, and the third, and so on to all seven. 27 Last of all, the woman died. 28 In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.’

29 Jesus answered them, ‘You are mistaken, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven. 31 Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God: 32 I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.’

33 And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

The Primary Commands

34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they came together. 35 And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test him: 36 ‘Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest? ’

37 He said to him, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the greatest and most important[m] command. 39 The second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself. 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.’

The Question about the Messiah

41 While the Pharisees were together, Jesus questioned them, 42 ‘What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he? ’

They replied, ‘David’s.’

43 He asked them, ‘How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him “Lord”:

44 The Lord declared to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet”?

45 ‘If David calls him “Lord,” how, then, can he be his son? ’ 46 No one was able to answer him at all, and from that day on no one dared to question him any more. — Matthew 22 | Christian Standard Bible Anglicised (CSBA) Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Copyright © 2024 by Holman Bible Publishers. Cross References: Genesis 38:8; Exodus 3:6 Leviticus 19:18; Deuteronomy 6:4-5; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 25:5; 2 Samuel 23:2; 1 Kings 18:36; 2 Kings 10:22; Psalm 110:1; Proverbs 9:2-3; Proverbs 15:17; Ezekiel 21:21; Obadiah 1:14; Zechariah 3:3; Matthew 3:7; Matthew 7:12; Matthew 7:28; Matthew 8:10; Matthew 9:27; Matthew 12:14-15; Matthew 17:25; Matthew 19:19; Matthew 20:2; Matthew 24:38; Matthew 26:64; Mark 3:6; Mark 12:12; Mark 12:16; Mark 12:18; Mark 12:24; Mark 12:28; Mark 12:34-35; Luke 2:47; Luke 7:30; Luke 14:6; Luke 17:27; Luke 20:38; Luke 20:41; John 20:9; Acts 2:30; Acts 7:32; Romans 13:7; Galatians 5:14; Hebrews 13:3; 2 Peter 1:10; 2 Peter 2:3; Revelation 17:14

With Wisdom Comes Sorrow

I applied my mind to examine and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven. God has given people[a] this miserable task to keep them occupied. — Ecclesiastes 1:13 | Christian Standard Bible Anglicised (CSBA) Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Copyright © 2024 by Holman Bible Publishers. Cross References: Job 28:3; Ecclesiastes 1:17; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Ecclesiastes 3:10-11; Ecclesiastes 4:8

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God as Judge

A psalm of Asaph.

1 The Mighty One, God, the Lord, speaks; he summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. 2 From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God appears in radiance. 3 Our God is coming; he will not be silent! Devouring fire precedes him, and a storm rages around him. 4 On high, he summons heaven and earth in order to judge his people: 5 ‘Gather my faithful ones to me, those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.’ 6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God is the Judge. Selah

7 ‘Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel. I am God, your God. 8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or for your burnt offerings, which are continually before me. 9 I will not take a bull from your household or male goats from your pens, 10 for every animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know every bird of the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and everything in it is mine. 13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer a thanksgiving sacrifice to God, and pay your vows to the Most High. 15 Call on me in a day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will honour me.’

16 But God says to the wicked: ‘What right do you have to recite my statutes and to take my covenant on your lips? 17 You hate instruction and fling my words behind you. 18 When you see a thief, you make friends with him, and you associate with adulterers. 19 You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue for deceit. 20 You sit, maligning your brother, slandering your mother’s son. 21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But I will rebuke you and lay out the case before you.

22 ‘Understand this, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to rescue you. 23 Whoever offers a thanksgiving sacrifice honours me, and whoever orders his conduct, I will show him the salvation of God.’ — Psalm 50 | Christian Standard Bible Anglicised (CSBA) Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Copyright © 2024 by Holman Bible Publishers. Cross References: Exodus 20:2; Exodus 24:7; Leviticus 10:2; Numbers 7:45; Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 33:2; Joshua 22:22; Job 8:13; Job 19:18; Psalm 10:7; Psalm 69:31; Psalm 85:13; Psalm 94:20; Ecclesiastes 8:11; Micah 6:7; Matthew 6:26; Acts 17:25; Romans 1:32; Romans 2:21-22; Romans 12:1; 1 Corinthians 10:26; Hebrews 12:23; James 5:13

Do Not Reject The One Who Speaks

See to it that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven. — Hebrews 12:25 | Christian Standard Bible Anglicised (CSBA) Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Copyright © 2024 by Holman Bible Publishers. Cross References: Exodus 20:22; Deuteronomy 4:36; Deuteronomy 18:19; Hebrews 1:1; Hebrews 2:2-3; Hebrews 3:12

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