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| Citation | Articles | Verse |
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| Matt. 5:8 | Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God. | |
| Matt. 5:9 | Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. | |
| Matt. 5:10 | Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. | |
| Matt. 5:11 | Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: | |
| Matt. 5:12 | Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you. | |
| Matt. 5:15 | Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. | |
| Matt. 5:16 | So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. | |
| Matt. 5:17 | Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. perfecting all that was imperfect. | |
| Matt. 5:18 | For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. retained by the example and authority of all the four Evangelists. It is used by our Lord as a strong asseveration, and affirmation of the truth. | |
| Matt. 5:19 | He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. | |
| Matt. 5:20 | For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Moses: the Pharisees were a precise set of men, making profession of a more exact observance of the law: and upon that account greatly esteemed among the people. | |
| Matt. 5:21 | You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. punished by that lesser tribunal among the Jews, called the Judgment, which took cognizance of such crimes. | |
| Matt. 5:22 |
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But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. danger of the council... That is, shall deserve to be punished by the highest court of judicature, called the Council, or Sanhedrim, consisting of seventy-two persons, where the highest causes were tried and judged, which was at Jerusalem. Thou fool... This was then looked upon as a heinous injury, when uttered with contempt, spite, or malice: and therefore is here so severely condemned. Shall be in danger of hell fire... literally, according to the Greek, shall deserve to be cast into the Gehenna of fire. Which words our Saviour made use of to express the fire and punishments of hell. |
| Matt. 5:23 | If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath anything against thee; | |
| Matt. 5:25 | Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. | |
| Matt. 5:26 | Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing. | |
| Matt. 5:27-32 | You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. | |
| Matt. 5:28 | But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart. | |
| Matt. 5:31 | And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce. | |
| Matt. 5:32 | But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery. | |
| Matt. 5:33 | Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord. | |
| Matt. 5:34 | But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven for it is the throne of God: judgment; to the honour of God, or our own or neighbour's just defence: but only to swear rashly, or profanely, in common discourse, and without necessity. | |
| Matt. 5:34-36 | But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven for it is the throne of God: judgment; to the honour of God, or our own or neighbour's just defence: but only to swear rashly, or profanely, in common discourse, and without necessity. | |
| Matt. 5:37 | But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil. | |
| Matt. 5:39 | But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other: patience under injuries and affronts, and to be willing even to suffer still more, rather than to indulge the desire of revenge: but what is further added does not strictly oblige according to the letter, for neither did Christ nor St. Paul turn the other cheek. St. John 18., and Acts 23. | |
| Matt. 5:40 | And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him. | |
| Matt. 5:42 | Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not away. | |
| Matt. 5:44 |
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But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: |
| Matt. 5:46 | For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this? men, odious and infamous among the Jews, for their extortions and injustice. | |
| Matt. 5:48 | Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect. | |
| Matt. 6:1 | Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven. almsdeeds; which ought to be performed not out of ostentation, or a view to please men, but solely to please God. | |
| Matt. 6:1-18 | Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven. almsdeeds; which ought to be performed not out of ostentation, or a view to please men, but solely to please God. | |
| Matt. 6:2 | Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. | |
| Matt. 6:6 | But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will repay thee. | |
| Matt. 6:7 | And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard. | |
| Matt. 6:10 | Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. | |
| Matt. 6:12 | And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. | |
| Matt. 6:16 | And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. | |
| Matt. 6:18 | That thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee. | |
| Matt. 6:19 | Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal. | |
| Matt. 6:20 | But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal. | |
| Matt. 6:21 | For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also. | |
| Matt. 6:22 | The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome. | |
| Matt. 6:23 | But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then the light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great shall it be! | |
| Matt. 6:24 | No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. | |
| Matt. 6:25 | Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? | |
| Matt. 6:26 | Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? | |
| Matt. 6:27 | And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit? | |
| Matt. 6:31 | Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? | |
| Matt. 6:32 | For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. |