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If therefore when you are offering your gift upon the altar, you remember that your brother has a grievance against you,
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leave your gift there before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother first, and then return and proceed to offer your gift.
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Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the magistrate against you, and the magistrate should give you in custody to the officer and you be thrown into prison.
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I solemnly tell you that you will certainly not be released till you have paid the very last farthing.
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"You have heard that it was said, `Thou shalt not commit adultery.'
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But I tell you that whoever looks at a woman and cherishes lustful thoughts has already in his heart become guilty with regard to her.
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If therefore your eye, even the right eye, is a snare to you, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.
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And if your right hand is a snare to you, cut it off and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should go into Gehenna.
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"It was also said, `If any man puts away his wife, let him give her a written notice of divorce.'
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But I tell you that every man who puts away his wife except on the ground of unfaithfulness causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries her when so divorced commits adultery.
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"Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, `Thou shalt not swear falsely, but shalt perform thy vows to the Lord.'