Matthew 5:24

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

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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

23Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has ought against you;

25Agree with yours adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:9Debate your cause with your neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

Matthew 23:23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for all of you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought all of you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Romans 12:17Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

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

James 3:13Who is a wise man and imbued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

1 Peter 3:7Likewise, all of you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not 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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