Matthew 6:1
Pure-hearted Giving
6:1 “Be 1 careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. 2 Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
Matthew 7:4
7:4 Or how can you say
3 to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?
Matthew 12:32
12:32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven.
4 But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven,
5 either in this age or in the age to come.
Matthew 21:15
21:15 But when the chief priests and the experts in the law
6 saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts,
7 “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant
Matthew 23:16
23:16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. 8 But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.’
1 tc ‡ Several mss (א L Z Θ Ë1 33 892 1241 1424 al) have δέ (de, “but, now”) at the beginning of this verse; the reading without δέ is supported by B D W 0250 Ë13 Ï lat. A decision is difficult, but apparently the conjunction was added by later scribes to indicate a transition in the thought-flow of the Sermon on the Mount. NA27 has δέ in brackets, indicating reservations about its authenticity.
2 tn Grk “before people in order to be seen by them.”
3 tn Grk “how will you say?”
5 tn Grk “it will be forgiven him.”
6 tn Grk “it will not be forgiven him.”
7 tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
8 tn Grk “crying out in the temple [courts] and saying.” The participle λέγοντας (legontas) is somewhat redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.
9 tn Grk “Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing.”