Matthew 5:11-48 ▼

11 Blessed are you? when they may reproach you? and may persecute you and may say all evil against you?, lying, on account of Me.

12 Rejoice and exult, because your? reward is great in the heavens; for thus they persecuted the prophets before you?.

13 You? are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should become tasteless, with what will it be salted? For nothing is it potent any longer except, having been cast out, to be trampled upon by men.

14 You? are the light of the world. A city lying on a hill is not able to be hidden.

15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under the basket, but upon the lampstand, and it shines to all those in the house.

16 Thus let your? light shine before men, so that they may see your? good works and may glorify your? Father who is in the heavens.

17 Do not suppose that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.

18 For truly I say to you?, until the heaven and the earth should pass away, not even one iota, or one stroke of a letter, shall pass away from the Law, until everything should come to pass.

19 Whoever then may break one of the least of these commandments and may teach men thus, he will be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whoever may do and may teach them, this one will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.

20 For I say to you? that unless your? righteousness should abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you? shall certainly not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

21 You? heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘You shall not murder,’ and, ‘Whoever may murder will be liable to the judgment.’

22 But I say to you? that everyone being angry with his brother will be liable to the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be liable to the Sanhedrin. But whoever may say, ‘Fool!’ will be liable to the Gehenna of fire.

23 Therefore, if you may offer your gift at the altar, and there may remember that your brother has something against you,

24 leave your gift there before the altar and first go, be reconciled to your brother, and then, having come, offer your gift.

25 Be agreeing quickly with your adversary while you are with him in the way, lest ever the adversary may deliver you to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you will be cast into prison.

26 Truly I say to you, you shall never come out from there until you should pay back the last kodrantes.

27 You? heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’

28 But I say to you? that everyone looking at a woman in order to desire her already committed adultery with her in his heart.

29 Now if your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. For it is better for you that one of your members should perish and not that your whole body should be cast into Gehenna.

30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. For it is better for you that one of your members should perish and not that your whole body should go away into Gehenna.

31 And it was said, ‘Whoever may send away his wife, let him give to her a certificate of divorce.’

32 But I say to you? that everyone sending away his wife, except for the reason of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever shall marry her who has been sent away, he commits adultery.

33 Again, you? heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but you shall repay your oaths to the Lord.’

34 But I say to you? not to swear at all: neither by heaven, because it is the throne of God;

35 nor by the earth, because it is the footstool for His feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

36 Nor may you swear by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.

37 But let your? word ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and ‘No,’ ‘No.’ And that which is more than these comes from the evil one.

38 You? heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’

39 But I say to you? not to resist the evil person. But whoever may strike you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other.

40 And the one wanting to sue you and to take your tunic, yield to him also the cloak.

41 And whoever will compel you to go one milion, go with him two.

42 To the one asking you, you should give, and from the one wanting to borrow from you, you should not turn away.

43 You? heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and shall hate your enemy.’

44 But I say to you?, love your? enemies and pray for those persecuting you?,

45 so that you? may be sons of your? Father who is in the heavens. For He makes His sun rise on evil and good, and He sends rain on righteous and unrighteous.

46 For if you? love those loving you?, what reward do you? have? Do not also the tax collectors do the same?

47 And if you? greet only your? brothers, what extraordinary thing do you? do? Do not also the Gentiles do the same?

48 You? shall be perfect, therefore, as your? heavenly Father is perfect.