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19 honor your father and mother,’[a] and, ‘you must love your neighbor as yourself.’”[b]

20 The young man told him, “I have kept all of these.[c] What do I still lack?”

21 Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go and sell what you own and give the money[d] to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:19 Cf. Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16
  2. Matthew 19:19 Cf. Lev 19:18
  3. Matthew 19:20 Other mss. read kept all of these since I was a young man
  4. Matthew 19:21 The Gk. lacks the money