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Matthew 17:27

First Nations Version

but, to keep from insulting them, we will pay. Go to the lake and open the mouth of the first fish you catch, and you will find a silver coin. Use that to pay the dues for both of us.”

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We walk in a way that will make no one else stumble, so that no one has a reason to talk bad about our sacred task.


For you know the loving kindness of our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One. Even though he had great treasures, he became poor for your sake, that through his poverty you might share in his great treasures.


But you must take care not to use this freedom you have in a way that could make a weaker family member stumble along the path.


So then, if what I eat causes any of my family members to stumble along the path, then I will never again eat meat in a way that will make them stumble.


It would be better not to eat, drink wine, or do anything that would make a sacred family member stumble on the path.


Hear me, my much-loved sacred family members! Did not the Great Spirit choose the ones the world looks down on as poor to be rich in trusting and sharers together in the good road that Creator has promised to those who love him?


Make sure to turn away from all kinds of evil.


Creator Sets Free (Jesus) knew in his spirit what was troubling them, so he said, “Do these words make you stumble from the path?


If your right eye sees in this way—gouge it out and throw it away!


If your right hand does harm to her—cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose a part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into the Valley of Smoldering Fire.


“From others,” Stands on the Rock (Peter) answered. “So then,” he said back to him, “the family members do not have to pay,


“But for the ones who put a stumbling stone in the path of one of these little ones who trust in me, it would be better for them to have a great stone tied to their necks and be drowned in the deep waters!


“So, if what your hand or foot does makes you stumble from the path, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to walk this life without a hand or foot than to be thrown into the fire that burns on and on.


“But let no one cause one of these little ones who have put their trust in me to stumble away from the path. It would be better to have a great stone tied to one’s neck and to be thrown into the great waters.


If what your hand does causes you to stumble off the path, then cut it off and throw it away! It would be better to live this life with only one hand than to go with two hands into the Valley of Smoldering Fire—a fire that cannot be put out.


It would be better to be thrown into the deep waters with a great stone tied to your neck than to cause even one of these little ones, who trust in me, to stumble on the path. “When you are wronged,





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