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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Jesus' Most Radical Pronouncement On Morality: Judgment According To Intent


"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, 
if you love one another.”
John 13:35
http://biblehub.com/john/13-35.htm

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Matthew 5
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
http://biblehub.com/aramaic-plain-english/matthew/5.htm


20 For I say to you, that unless your goodness will exceed that of the Scribes and the Pharisees, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

21You have heard that it was said to the ancients, 'Do not murder, and whoever murders is condemned to judgment.' 22But I am saying to you, that everyone who will be angry against his brother without cause is condemned before the judge, and everyone who will say to his brother, 'I spit on you', is condemned before the assembly, and whoever will say 'You fool' is condemned to the Gehenna of fire. 23If therefore you bring your offering to the altar, and there you remember that your brother holds any grudge against you, 24Leave your offering there before the altar and go, first be reconciled with your brother, and then come, bring your offering. 25Be allied with your plaintiff quickly, while you are with him in the street, lest the plaintiff delivers you to the judge and the judge delivers you to the Tax Collector and you fall into prison. 26And truly I say to you, you will not come out from there until you give the last quarter cent.

33Again you have heard that it was said to the ancients, "Do not lie in your oath, but you will fulfill to THE LORD JEHOVAH your oath." 34But I say to you, Do not swear at all, not by Heaven, for it is the throne of God 35Neither by the earth, for it is his stool for his feet, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. 36Neither shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make in it a certain hair black or white. 37But your statement shall be, "Yes, yes" and, "No, no"; anything more than these is from The Evil One.

38You have heard that it was said, "An eye in exchange for an eye, and a tooth in exchange for a tooth." 39But I am saying to you, you shall not rise up against an evil person, but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other. 40And whoever wants to sue you and take your coat, leave for him also your cloak. 41Whoever compels you to go one mile with him, go with him two miles. 42Whoever asks you, give to him, and whoever wants to borrow from you, do not refuse him.

43You have heard that it was said, "Show kindness to your neighbor and hate your enemy." 44But I say to you, love your enemies and bless the one who curses you, and do what is beautiful to the one who hates you, and pray over those who take you by force and persecute you. 45So that you will become the children of your Father who is in Heaven, for his sun rises on the good and upon the evil and his rain descends on the just and on the unjust. 46For if you love those who love you, what benefit is it to you? Behold, do not even the Tax Collectors the same thing? 47And if you pray for the peace of your brethren only, what excellent thing are you doing? Behold, are not even the Tax Collectors doing the same thing? 48Be therefore perfect, just as your Father who is in Heaven is perfect.

"Who Were The Tax Collectors And Shepherds In Jesus' Time"

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27You have heard that it was spoken, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 28But I am saying to you, everyone who looks at a woman so as to lust for her, immediately commits adultery with her in his heart. 29But if your right eye subverts you, pluck it out and cast it from you, for it is profitable for you that your one member be lost, and not that your whole body should fall into Gehenna. 30And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, cast it from you, for it is profitable for you that one of your members be lost, and not that your whole body fall into Gehenna. (Alan: "Gehenna" or "hell" was the name of Jerusalem's dump, "the place where the fires never went out.)

31It has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce.' 32But I am saying to you that everyone who divorces his wife, apart from the report of fornication, he causes her to commit adultery, and whoever takes her who is divorced is committing adultery. (Alan: Separation is not prohibited.)


"Love Your Enemies. Do Good To Those Who Hate You," Luke 6: 27-42



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