Matthew 7:24 Cross References - MNT

²⁴ "Every one who hears my words and does them I will liken to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.

³ "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. ⁴ "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. ⁵ "Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth." ⁶ "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for the righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied. ⁷ "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. ⁸ "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. ⁹ "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. ¹⁰ "Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ "Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake. ¹² "Rejoice and exult in it, because your reward was great in the heavens; for so did they persecute the prophets before you.

²⁸ But I say to you that whoever looks with lust at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit. ³⁰ And if your right hand entices you into sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit. ³¹ "It was also said, "Whoever divorces his wife must give her a bill of separation. ³² But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress, and whoever marries her when so divorced, commits adultery.

¹⁴ "For if you forgive men their offenses against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you also; ¹⁵ "but if you do not forgive men your offenses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your offenses.

¹⁹ "Store up for yourselves no treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; ²⁰ "but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. ²¹ "For wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

⁷ "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ "For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door is opened.

¹³ "Enter by the narrow gate; for broad is the gate and wide the road that leads to destruction, and many are they who go in by it; ¹⁴ "but the gate is narrow and the road is steep, which leads to life, and they are few who find it.

⁵⁰ "Behold my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, is my brother and sister and mother."

⁴⁷ "I will show whom the man that comes to me, and listens to my works, and does them, is like. ⁴⁸ "He is like a man who is building a house who digged and went deep and laid a foundation upon rock. And, when a flood came, the torrent dashed against that house, but could not move, because it had been founded upon rock. ⁴⁹ "But he who listens but does not do, is like a man who built a house upon the soil, without foundations, against which the torrent burst, and at once it fell in, and the ruin of that house was great."

²⁸ "No, rather," he answered, "blessed are those who listen to the word of God, and keep it."

¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.

¹⁵ "If you love me, you will obey my commandments,

²² "How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus replied. "If any loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. ²⁴ "He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

¹⁰ "If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.

¹⁴ "You are my friends if you do what I command you.

⁶ For He will render to every man according to his works; ⁷ eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality; ⁸ but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness. ⁹ Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

¹⁰ According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it. ¹¹ The foundation is already laid—Jesus Christ—and no man can lay another.

⁶ because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love. ⁷ You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

⁷ Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he also reap. ⁸ The man who is sowing to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption; but he who is sowing to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life eternal.

²¹ So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. ²² And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like. ²⁵ But the man who looks closely into the perfect law—the law of liberty—and continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does. ²⁶ If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion, ²⁷ and undefiled before our God and Father, to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and ever to keep himself unspotted from the world.

¹⁷ In just the same way faith, if it have not deeds, is by itself a lifeless thing. ¹⁸ Some one indeed may say, "You have faith, and I have deeds." "Then show me your faith," I answer, "apart from any deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds." ¹⁹ You believe that God is one? You do well; even the demons believe, and they shudder. ²⁰ But do you want to be convinced, O foolish man, that faith apart from deeds is barren? ²¹ Was not Abraham our ancestor justified by deeds, in that he offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar? ²² You see how faith was cooperating with deeds, and faith was made perfect by deeds. ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which said, And Abraham believed God, and this was imputed to him as righteousness, and he was called God's friend. ²⁴ You see, then, that it is by his deeds a man is justified, and not simply by his faith. ²⁵ In like manner was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by her deeds, in the fact that she received the messengers and sent them forth by another way? ²⁶ So just as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

¹³ Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show his deeds by his good life, in the meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike. ¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom which comes from on high is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, conciliatory, overflowing with mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without insincerity. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by those who are working peace.

³ This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments.

²² and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight. ²³ His commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do. ²⁴ He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him, and Christ in him. By this we know that Christ is abiding in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

³ For love to God means obeying his commandments; and his commandments are not irksome. ⁴ For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world. ⁵ And who it the one that is overcoming the world if not the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁴ "Blessed are they who wash their robes, so that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the City. ¹⁵ Without are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who live and make a lie.