The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
Matthew 5:10 (KJV)

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for there's is the kingdom of heaven.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Lucy-Pevensie
Matthew 5:11 (KJV)

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Lucy-Pevensie
Matthew 5:12 (KJV)

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Lucy-Pevensie
Matthew 5:13
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”

King James Version (KJV)
 
Matthew 5:15 (NIV)

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Isny
Matthew 5:17 (KJV)

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Lucy-Pevensie
Matthew 5:18 (KJV)

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
 
Matthew 5:19 (NIV)

Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the
kingdom of heaven, but whoever practises and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Isny
Matthew 5:20 (NIV)

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not
enter the kingdom of heaven.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Isny
Matthew 5:21 (NIV)

‘You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, “You shall not murder, [a] and anyone who murders will be subject
to judgment.”

a [Exodus 20:30]
 
  • Like
Reactions: Isny
Matthew 5:22 (NIV)

But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother
or sister, “Raca,” [d] is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, “You fool!” will be in danger of the fire of hell.

[d] An Aramaic term of contempt
 
  • Like
Reactions: Isny
Matthew 5:23 (KJV)

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
 
Matthew 5:24 (KJV)

Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
 
Matthew 5:25 (KJV)

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
 
Matthew 5:26 (KJV)

Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
 
Matthew 5:27 (KJV)

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
 
Matthew 5:28 (KJV)

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.