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Verse 7:15 continues the warnings about judgment and adds a caution about false prophets [4] [5] [6] by repeating some of the language used by John the Baptist in chapter 3. The chapter ends with the parable of the wise and the foolish builders in Matthew 7:24–27, which has a parallel in Luke 6:46–49.
The last verse of chapter 5 of Matthew (Matthew 5:48) [29] is a focal point of the Sermon that summarizes its teachings by advising the disciples to seek perfection. [30] The Greek word telios used to refer to perfection also implies an end, or destination, advising the disciples to seek the path towards perfection and the Kingdom of God. [ 30 ]
Matthew 7:23 is the twenty-third verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This verse continues Jesus ' warning against false prophets .
The slavery metaphor also can mitigate Jesus' warning. One cannot be a slave to both God and money, but it does not mean that one cannot be both a slave to God and also pursue a reasonable interest in money. This verse is not a call for the renunciation of all wealth, merely a warning against the idolization of the pursuit of money. [4]
The first discourse (Matthew 5–7) is called the Sermon on the Mount and is one of the best known and most quoted parts of the New Testament. [6] It includes the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer and the Golden Rule. To most believers in Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount contains the central tenets of Christian discipleship. [6]
Sermon 19*: The Great Privilege of those that are born of God - 1 John 3:9; Sermon 20: The Lord our Righteousness - Jeremiah 23:6; Sermon 21*: Upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount: Discourse One - Matthew 5:1-4; Sermon 22*: Upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount: Discourse Two - Matthew 5:5-7
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Matthew 6:21–27 from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! The World English Bible translates the ...
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