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Therefore if you present your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
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leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come [and] present your gift.
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{Settle the case quickly with your accuser} while you are with him on the way, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
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Truly I say to you, you will never come out of there until you have paid back the last penny!
The Sermon on the Mount: Adultery and Lust
27 "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'
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But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
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And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw [it] from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body be thrown into hell.
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And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw [it] from you! For it is better for you that one of your limbs be destroyed than your whole body go into hell.
The Sermon on the Mount: Divorce
31 "And it was said, 'Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.'
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But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
The Sermon on the Mount: Taking Oaths
33 "Again you have heard that it was said to the {people of old}, 'Do not swear falsely, but fulfill your oaths to the Lord.'