MATTHEW 5 27-37

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27 -  “You have heard it said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you everyone looking upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery in his heart. 29 If your right eye will cause you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It’s better to lose it than your whole body be thrown into gehenna.” (Gehenna Valley was the place of the city dump, where even the bodies of criminals were thrown, so the fires were kept burning. It was a great threat and insult to not be properly buried.) 30 “And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you! For it’s better you lose it than your whole body go into gehenna.

     31 It’s also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you, anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries her commits adultery.

     33 Again you’ve heard it said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the LORD what you have sworn.’” {Lying wasn’t in the “ten commandments” except not to swear an oath falsely. Not that lying isn’t a “trespass”/missing the mark, translated “sin”.} “But I say to you, don’t take an oath at all! Either by heaven, for it’s the throne of God, 35 or by the earth, for it’s his footstool. Nor by Jerusalem, for it’s the city of the great KING. 36 And don’t take an oath by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black. 37 Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. Anything more than this comes from evil.” [Ponéros - evil, wicked, bad, malicious, slothful, from porneo - to work hard, and ponos - pain ridden, aligns with the Hebrew understanding of evil as anything that opposes God's will and righteousness/rightness.]

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