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The Rich Young Man and the Cost of Discipleship

Mark 10:17-31
17And as he was going out on the road, one ran up, knelt, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do in order that I may inherit eternal life?" 18Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one, God." 19You know the commandments: Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not perjure, do not defraud, honor your father and mother. 20He said to him, "Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth." 21Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, One thing you lack: go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come follow me. 22He became gloomy at the word and went away grieving, for he was having many possessions. 23And Jesus looked around and says to his disciples, How difficultly those having money enter toward the kingdom of God! 24The disciples were amazed at his words. Jesus again answered and says, Children, how difficult it is to enter toward the kingdom of God! 25It is easier for a camel to pass through the hole of the needle than for a rich person to enter toward the kingdom of God. 26They were astonished excessively, saying to themselves, And who is able to be saved? 27Jesus looked at them and said, "With humans it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God." 28Peter began to say to him, Look, we have left all and have followed you. 29Jesus asserted, Amen I say to you, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel 30who shall not receive a hundred times now in this time: homes and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions, and in the coming age eternal life. 31Many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
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