For everyone who asks ¹  receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

In ¹  reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”

But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

“Whoever, then, acknowledges ¹  me before people, I will acknowledge ²  before my Father in heaven.

And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while ¹  the whole crowd stood on the shore.

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.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ ¹  will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

“Everyone ¹  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ²  a wise man ³  who built his house on rock.

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Then he said to them, “Therefore every expert in the law ¹  who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old.”

And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much ¹  and will inherit eternal life.

But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother ¹  will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults ²  a brother will be brought before ³  the council, ⁴  and whoever says ‘Fool’ ⁵  will be sent ⁶  to fiery hell. ⁷