Matthew 5:20
Greek Text— Matthew 5:20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,
He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”
Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”
In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.
“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”
But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.
I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,
The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.
Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”
Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.