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Also if thy right hand make thee to offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for better it is for thee that one of thy members perish, then that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

But I say vnto you, whosoeuer shall put away his wife (except it be for fornication) causeth her to commit adulterie: & whosoeuer shal marrie her that is diuorced, committeth adulterie.

But I say vnto you, Sweare not at all, neither by heauen, for it is the throne of God:

Nor yet by the earth: for it is his footestoole: neither by Hierusalem: for it is the citie of the great King.

But let your communication be Yea, yea: Nay, nay. For whatsoeuer is more then these, commeth of euill.

Ye haue heard that it hath bene sayd, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

But I say vnto you, Loue your enemies: blesse them that curse you: doe good to them that hate you, and pray for them which hurt you, and persecute you,

That ye may be the children of your father that is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to arise on the euill, and the good, and sendeth raine on the iust, and vniust.

For if ye loue them, which loue you, what rewarde shall you haue? Doe not the Publicanes euen the same?

And when thou prayest, be not as the hypocrites: for they loue to stand, and pray in the Synagogues, and in the corners of the streetes, because they would be seene of men. Verely I say vnto you, they haue their rewarde.

Also when ye pray, vse no vaine repetitions as the Heathen: for they thinke to be heard for their much babbling.

Be ye not like them therefore: for your Father knoweth whereof ye haue neede, before ye aske of him.

And leade vs not into tentation, but deliuer vs from euill: for thine is the kingdome, and the power, and the glorie for euer. Amen.

For if ye doe forgiue men their trespasses, your heauenly Father will also forgiue you.

Moreouer, when ye fast, looke not sowre as the hypocrites: for they disfigure their faces, that they might seeme vnto men to fast. Verely I say vnto you, that they haue their rewarde.

Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth, where the mothe & canker corrupt, and where theeues digge through and steale.

But lay vp treasures for your selues in heauen, where neither the mothe nor canker corrupteth, & where theeues neither digge through, nor steale.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

No man can serue two masters: for eyther he shall hate the one, and loue the other, or els he shall leane to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serue God and riches.

Therefore I say vnto you, be not carefull for your life, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth then meate? and the bodie then raiment?