Matthew 5:22

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

Let brotherly love continue.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned. He was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,

Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”

Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!

Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,

All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”