The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.

Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.

If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

And many false prophets will appear and deceive many,

Blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”

For this reason that field has been called the “Field of Blood” to this day.

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

“So when you see the abomination of desolation – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

But so that we don’t offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick, until he brings justice to victory.

He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.