Matthew 5:28-7:29 I, however, say to you that any one who looks at a woman with an impure intention has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁸ I, however, say to you that any one who looks at a woman with an impure intention has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ If your right eye is a snare to you, take it out and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it thrown into the Pit. ³⁰ And, if your right hand is a snare to you, cut it off and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it go down to the Pit. ³¹ It was also said--'Let any one who divorces his wife serve her with a notice of separation.' ³² I, however, say to you that any one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of her unchastity, leads to her committing adultery; while any one who marries her after her divorce is guilty of adultery. ³³ Again, you have heard that to our ancestors it was said--'Thou shalt not break an oath, but thou shall keep thine oaths as a debt due to the Lord.' ³⁴ I, however, say to you that you must not swear at all, either by Heaven, since that is God's throne, ³⁵ Or by the earth, since that is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, since that is the city of the Great King. ³⁶ Nor should you swear by your head, since you cannot make a single hair either white or black. ³⁷ Let your words be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from what is wrong. ³⁸ You have heard that it was said--'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' ³⁹ I, however, say to you that you must not resist wrong; but, if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also; ⁴⁰ And, when any one wants to go to law with you, to take your coat, let him have your cloak as well; ⁴¹ And, if any one compels you to go one mile, go two miles with him. ⁴² Give to him who asks of you; and, from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away. ⁴³ You have heard that it was said--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thy enemy.' ⁴⁴ I, however, say to you--Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, ⁴⁵ That you may become Sons of your Father who is in Heaven; for he causes his sun to rise upon bad and good alike, and sends rain upon the righteous and upon the unrighteous. ⁴⁶ For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this! ⁴⁷ And, if you show courtesy to your brothers only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do this! ⁴⁸ You, then, must become perfect--as your heavenly Father is perfect. ⁶ ¹ Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in Heaven has no reward for you. ² Therefore, when you do acts of charity, do not have a trumpet blown in front of you, as hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. There, I tell you, is their reward! ³ But, when you do acts of charity, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ So that your charity may be secret; and your Father, who sees what is in secret, will recompense you. ⁵ And, when you pray, you are not to behave as hypocrites do. They like to pray standing in the Synagogues and at the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. There, I tell you, is their reward! ⁶ But, when one of you prays, let him go into his own room, shut the door, and pray to his Father who dwells in secret; and his Father, who sees what is secret, will recompense him. ⁷ When praying, do not repeat the same words over and over again, as is done by the Gentiles, who think that by using many words they will obtain a hearing. ⁸ Do not imitate them; for God, your Father, knows what you need before you ask him. ⁹ You, therefore, should pray thus--'Our Father, who art in Heaven, May thy name be held holy, ¹⁰ Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done--on earth, as in Heaven. ¹¹ Give us to-day the bread that we shall need; ¹² And forgive us our wrong-doings, as we have forgiven those who have wronged us; ¹³ And take us not into temptation, but deliver us from Evil.' ¹⁴ For, if you forgive others their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also; ¹⁵ But, if you do not forgive others their offences, not even your Father will forgive your offences. ¹⁶ And, when you fast, do not put on gloomy looks, as hypocrites do who disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. That, I tell you, is their reward! ¹⁷ But, when one of your fasts, let him anoint his head and wash his face, ¹⁸ That he may not be seen by men to be fasting, but by his Father who dwells in secret; and his Father, who sees what is secret, will recompense him. ¹⁹ Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ But store up treasures for yourselves in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ²² The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is unclouded, your whole body will be lit up; ²³ But, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be! ²⁴ No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. ²⁵ That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life here--what you can get to eat or drink; nor yet about your body-- what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing? ²⁶ Look at the wild birds--they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them! And are not you more precious than they? ²⁷ But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a single moment? ²⁸ And why be anxious about clothing? Study the wild lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin; ²⁹ Yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his splendor was not robed like one of these. ³⁰ If God so clothes even the grass of the field, which is living to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, will not he much more clothe you, O men of little faith? ³¹ Do not then ask anxiously 'What can we get to eat?' or 'What can we get to drink?' or 'What can we get to wear?' ³² All these are the things for which the nations are seeking, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. ³³ But first seek his Kingdom and the righteousness that he requires, and then all these things shall be added for you. ³⁴ Therefore do not be anxious about to-morrow, for to-morrow will bring its own anxieties. Every day has trouble enough of its own. ⁷ ¹ Do not judge, that you may not be judged. ² For, just as you judge others, you will yourselves be judged, and the measure that you mete will be meted out to you. ³ And why do you look at the straw in your brother's eye, while you pay no attention at all to the beam in yours? ⁴ How will you say to your brother 'Let me take out the straw from your eye,' when all the time there is a beam in your own? ⁵ Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw from your brother's. ⁶ Do not give what is sacred to dogs; nor yet throw your pearls before pigs, lest they should trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you. ⁷ Ask, and your prayer shall be granted; search, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you. ⁸ For he that asks receives, he that searches finds, and to him that knocks the door shall be opened. ⁹ Who among you, when his son asks him for a loaf, will give him a stone, ¹⁰ Or when he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹¹ If you, then, wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in Heaven give what is good to those that ask him! ¹² Do to others whatever you would wish them to do to you; for that is the teaching of both the Law and the Prophets. ¹³ Go in by the small gate. Broad and spacious is the road that leads to destruction, and those that go in by it are many; ¹⁴ For small is the gate, and narrow the road, that leads to Life, and those that find it are few. ¹⁵ Beware of false Teachers--men who come to you in the guise of sheep, but at heart they are ravenous wolves. ¹⁶ By the fruit of their lives you will know them. Do people gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ So, too, every sound tree bears good fruit, while a worthless tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ A sound tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree that fails to bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ Hence it is by the fruit of their lives that you will know such men. ²¹ Not every one who says to me 'Master! Master!' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven. ²² On 'That Day' many will say to me 'Master, Master, was not it in your name that we taught, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many miracles?' ²³ And then I shall say to them plainly 'I never knew you. Go from my presence, you who live in sin.' ²⁴ Everyone, therefore, that listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it may be compared to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ The rain poured down, the rivers rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, for its foundations were upon the rock. ²⁶ And every one that listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it may be compared to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. ²⁷ The rain poured down, the rivers rose, the winds blew and struck against that house, and it fell; and great was its downfall." ²⁸ By the time that Jesus had finished speaking, the crowd was filled with amazement at his teaching. ²⁹ For he taught them like one who had authority, and not like their Teachers of the Law.