TRANSLATION MATTHEW 6:1 Be mindful that your social justice is not done in front of people, to be seen by them, for if so, you will get no wage from your father in heaven. When you are doing something charitable, do not sound a trumpet in front of you, as the play-actors do in the […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 5: 43 You have heard that God said, ‘You shall love your fellow Jew, and hate your enemy;’ but I am telling you; love your enemy and pray for those who harass you, so that you may be true children of your father in heaven, who makes his sun rise on the bad […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 5:38 You have heard that God said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” but I am telling you, do not stand against the one who harasses you. Whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other towards him also. And if some wants to bring you to […]

Again you have heard that God said to our first generation, “Do not swear falsely but deliver your pledges to the Lord;” but I am telling you, do not swear at all, not by heaven for it is God’s throne, nor by the earth for it is his footstool; nor by Jerusalem for it is […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 5: 31 God said, “whoever dismisses his wife should give her a bill of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who dismisses his wife for any reason except whoring, makes her sexually unfaithful, and anyone who marries a divorced woman participates in sexual infidelity. A divorced woman in Jesus’ society might well […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 5: 27 You have heard that God said, ‘Do not be sexually unfaithful to your wife.’ But I say to you, ‘Anyone who looks at a woman with desire to possess her, has already been sexually unfaithful with her in his heart.’ If your right eye makes you stumble, root it out and […]

TRANSLATION a MATTHEW 5: 21 You have heard that God said to our first generation, ‘Do not murder,’ and ‘anyone who murders will be subject to judgement.’ But I say to you, that anyone who harbours anger against a brother will be subject to judgement; and anyone who calls his brother a waste of space […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 5:13 You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt becomes dull, what can make it salty again? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled down by people. You are the light of the universe; a city cannot be hidden when it stands on a […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 5: 1 When Jesus saw the crowds he went up into a mountain and sat down. Then his disciples came to him. He opened his mouth and taught them, in these words: Good fortune to the destitute and crushed! Theirs is the Rule of Heaven. Good fortune to those who grieve! They shall […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 4:23 And he journeyed over the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the glad news of the kingdom and healing all disease and debility among the people. So word of him spread throughout Syria. And they brought to him all who were sick, suffering from many kinds of illness and enduring […]