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A
certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to
inherit eternal life?"
"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one
is good--except God alone. You know the commandments: 'Do not
commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false
testimony, honor your father and mother."
All these I have kept since I was a boy," he said.
When 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."
When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of
great wealth. Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is
for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! Indeed, 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."
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