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Here are the key **sayings (verses)** from the *Gospel of Thomas*, given simply without extra explanation. --- **Saying 1** > "Whoever finds the meaning of these words will not taste death." **Saying 2** > "Seek until you find. When you find, you will be dismayed. Then you will be astonished. Then you will be king over everything." **Saying 3** > "The kingdom is inside you and outside you. Know yourself, and you will know you are children of the living Father." **Saying 5** > "Know what is in front of you, and what is hidden will be revealed." **Saying 6** > "Do not lie. Do not do what you hate." **Saying 7** > "Blessed is the lion that a person eats and becomes human." **Saying 11** > "The dead are not alive. The living will not die." **Saying 13** > "I will tell you one word. If I tell you, you will pick up stones and throw them at me." **Saying 14** > "What goes into your mouth will not defile you. What comes out of your mouth will defile you." **Saying 16** > "I have come to cast fire, sword, and war upon the earth." **Saying 17** > "I will give you what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no hand has touched." **Saying 18** > "Where the beginning is, there the end will be too." **Saying 19** > "Blessed is he who was, before he came into being." **Saying 22** > "When you make two into one, male and female the same, inside like outside, then you will enter the kingdom." **Saying 24** > "Light exists inside a person of light. If he does not shine, there is darkness." **Saying 29** > "Wonderful that great wealth lives in this poverty." **Saying 36** > "Do not worry about what you will wear." **Saying 37** > "When you strip without shame and trample your clothes, then you will see the living one." **Saying 39** > "The Pharisees have hidden the keys of knowledge. They did not enter, and they kept others from entering." **Saying 42** > "Become passersby." **Saying 49** > "Blessed are the solitary and the chosen. You will find the kingdom." **Saying 50** > "If they ask, 'Where did you come from?' say, 'We came from the light.'" **Saying 56** > "Whoever has known the world has found a corpse." **Saying 70** > "If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you." **Saying 77** > "I am the light above everything. I am the All. Split a piece of wood — I am there. Lift a stone — you will find me." **Saying 82** > "Whoever is near me is near fire." **Saying 83** > "The light is hidden in images." **Saying 84** > "When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your image that came before you — it is immortal and invisible — then you will be tested." **Saying 86** > "Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head." **Saying 87** > "The body is a disaster. Wretched is the body that depends on another body." **Saying 89** > "Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Do you not know that the one who made the inside also made the outside?" **Saying 91** > "You do not know how to examine the present moment." **Saying 92** > "Seek and you will find." **Saying 97** > "The kingdom is like a woman carrying a jar of flour. The road was long, and the jar broke. The flour spilled behind her. She did not know it. When she reached her house, she found the jar empty." **Saying 98** > "The kingdom is like a man who wanted to kill a ruler. He drew his sword and struck the wall to test his hand. Then he killed the ruler." **Saying 100** > "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's. Give to God what is God's. Give to me what is mine." **Saying 103** > "Blessed is the person who knows where the robbers will enter. He will rise and guard his house." **Saying 109** > "The kingdom is like a man who hid a treasure in a field but did not know it. He sold the field. The buyer found the treasure." **Saying 110** > "Whoever has found the world and become rich, let him renounce the world." **Saying 113** > "The kingdom is spread out upon the earth, but people do not see it." **Saying 114** > "Every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom