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1
" You have heard that it was said to those of
old, You shall not murder and whoever murders
will be liable to judgment." (Matthew 521, ESV)
2
" For I tell you, unless your righteousness
exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you
will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven." (Matthew
520, ESV)
3
" You have heard that it was said to those of
old, You shall not murder and whoever murders
will be liable to judgment." (Matthew 521,
ESV) "You shall not murder. (Exodus 2013,
ESV) Whoever takes a human life shall surely be
put to death. (Leviticus 2417, ESV)
4
" But I say to you that everyone who is angry
with his brother will be liable to judgment
whoever insults his brother will be liable to the
council and whoever says, You fool! will be
liable to the hell of fire." (Matthew 522, ESV)
5
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law
or the Prophets I have not come to abolish them
but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you,
until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota,
not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is
accomplished." (Matthew 517-18, ESV)
6
But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have
one teacher, and you are all brothers. And call
no man your father on earth, for you have one
Father, who is in Heaven. Neither be called
instructors, for you have one instructor, the
Christ." (Matthew 238-10, ESV)
7
Any man who is angry with his brother deserves to
be punished with death. He who says to his
brother You blockhead! deserves to be condemned
to death by the supreme court. He who says You
Idiot! deserves to suffer death in hell."
(Matthew 522, Tracys Translation)
8
An everyone who hears these words of mine and
does not do them will be like a foolish man who
built his house on sand. (Matthew 726,
ESV) You blind fools! For which is greater, the
gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or
the alter that makes the gift sacred? (Matthew
2317, ESV)
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So if you are offering your gift at the altar
and there remember that your brother has
something against you, leave your gift there
before the altar and go. First be reconciled to
your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
(Matthew 523-24, ESV)
10
Do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by
testing you may discern what is the will of God,
what is good and acceptable and perfect.
(Romans 122, ESV) If we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If
we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. . . . Whoever says he is in the
light and hates his brother is still in the
darkness. (1 John 18-9 1 John 29 , ESV)
11
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a
broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not
despise. (Psalm 5117, ESV)
12
A Modest Proposal for Peace Let Christians of
the world agree that they will not kill one
another.
13
The Sermon dos not generate an ethic of
nonviolence, but rather a community of
nonviolence is necessary if the Sermon is to be
read rightly. Without such a community, the world
has no way of knowing that all God creation was
meant to live in peace. (Stanley Hauerwas)
14
Come to terms quickly with your accuser while
you are going with him to court, lest your
accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge
to the guard, and you be put in prison. Truly I
say to you, you will never get out until you have
paid the last penny. (Matthew 525-26, ESV)