Je was op zoek naar: treasure them as if they were your own eyes (Engels - Maori)

be strong in your own eyes
kia kaha koutou katoa

and with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
na he maha ana kupu whakarite pera, i korerotia ai e ia te kupu ki a ratou, ko a ratou i ahei ai te whakarongo

and if they were all one member, where were the body?
mehemea hoki kotahi ano wahi ratou katoa, kei hea te tinana

and joshua and all israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
a whakawhati ana a hohua ratou ko iharaira katoa i a ratou ano i o ratou aroaro, a rere ana i te huarahi ki te koraha

and his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
a ko ona waewae rite tonu ki te parahi pai, ano e ka ana i roto i te oumu; ko tona reo, ano ko te tangi a nga wai maha

where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for i bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
kei hea ra tera hari o koutou? he kaiwhakaatu hoki ahau mo ta koutou, me i taea kua tikarohia e koutou o koutou kanohi, a kua homai ki ahau

and when gaal saw the people, he said to zebul, behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. and zebul said unto him, thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
a, i te kitenga o kaara i aua tangata, ka mea ia ki a tepuru, nana, he tangata e heke mai ra i nga tihi o nga maunga. na ka mea a tepuru ki a ia, ko te ata o nga maunga tau e kite na, me te mea he tangata

and it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our god.
a, i te rongonga o o matou hoariri katoa, i taua mea, ka wehi nga tauiwi katoa i tetahi taha o matou, i tetahi taha, a ko te tino hokinga iho o o ratou whakaaro; i kite hoki ratou he mea mahi tenei mahi e to matou atua

they did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
ka mahi koroke ratou, ka haere me te mea he karere ratou; ka tango hoki ki nga putea tawhito ki runga ki o ratou kaihe, i nga koki waina hoki kua tawhitotia, kua pakarukaru, putiki rawa

and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
a hei taniko tena mo koutou, hei titiro iho ma koutou, na ka mahara ki nga whakahau katoa a ihowa, a ka mahi; kei rapu koutou i ta o koutou ngakau, i ta o koutou kanohi, ara i nga mea e whaia atu nei, e puremutia atu nei e koutou

they went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
i haere atu ratou i roto i a tatou, ehara ia i te mea no tatou ratou; mehemea hoki no tatou ratou, kua noho tonu ki a tatou: otiia kua haere atu ratou kia whakakitea ai ehara ratou katoa i a tatou

yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, we have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
na ki te hoki ake to ratou mahara i te whenua i whakaraua atu ai ratou, a ka ripeneta ratou, ka inoi ki a koe i te whenua o o ratou kaiherehere, ka mea, kua hara matou, kua parori ke ta matou mahi, kua mahi matou i te kino