Matthew 5:24

leave your gift there before the altar, and go, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

In Context

23If, therefore, you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has any thing against you,

25Come to an agreement with your opponent at law quickly, while you are on the road with him, lest your opponent at law deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:23Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, its justice, its mercy, and its faithfulness. These you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have neglected.

Romans 12:17repay to no one evil for evil; practice that which is honorable in the sight of all men.

1 Corinthians 11:28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread, and drink of this cup:

James 3:13Who is wise and discreet among you? Let him show, by a good behavior, his works, with the meekness of wisdom.

1 Peter 3:7Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, bestowing honor on the wife as the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 5:22-27

The Sermon on the Mount. 21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: 22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. 23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother… Read the whole commentary →

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