You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.’

As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Then Jesus said to him, “See that you do not speak to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”