Matthew 5:17-22

Etheridge(i) 17 Think not that I came to loose the law or the prophets: not that I might loose, but that I might fulfill. 18 For, Amen I say unto you, that until heaven and earth shall pass away, one yod, or one point,["One line." - Codex Vienniensis] shall not pass from the law, till all be done. 19 Every one, therefore, who shall set loose one from these least commandments, and shall so teach the children of men, the least shall he be called in the kingdom of heaven: but every one who shall do and teach [them], this [one] shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness shall abound more than that of the scribes * and the Pharishee, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [* Sophree. This order of public teachers (the preaching and writing clergy of the Jews) does not seem sufficiently indicated by the word " scribes " in the English version. Luther well renders the corresponding Greek term by Schriftgelehrten.] 21 YOU have heard that it was said unto them who were before, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill is obnoxious to the judgment. 22 But I say unto you, that he who is angry against his brother rashly, is obnoxious to the judgment; and he who shall say to his brother, Thou empty one! is liable to the council; and every one who shall say, Thou fool! is liable to the gihano of fire.
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