But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one stroke of a letter in the law to be dropped. Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. If another disciple sins, you must rebuke the offender, and if there is repentance, you must forgive. And if the same person sins against you seven times a day, and turns back to you seven times and says, 'I repent,' you must forgive. Though these sayings seem to be disparate they all cluster around the idea that in marriage, relationships, and friendships God must hold center place.
Faith is the operative principle of kingdom citizenship.
Faith in what is said by God rather than in what one sees in life. In short, faith replaces sight as the operative principle of existence. Do not go, do not set off in pursuit. For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. But first he must endure much suffering and be rejected by this generation.