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.’

[6:1]  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 ˹³ 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.

[6:1]  ² tn Grk “before people in order to be seen by them.”

[7:4]  ³ tn Grk “how will you say?”

[12:32]  ⁵ tn Grk “it will be forgiven him.”

[12:32]  ⁶ tn Grk “it will not be forgiven him.”

[21:15]  ⁷ tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[21:15]  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.

[23:16]  ⁹ tn Grk “Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing.”