Matthew 5:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

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  • Rom 12:17-18 : 17 Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men. 18 As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.
  • Jas 5:16 : 16 So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
  • 1 Cor 6:7-8 : 7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss? 8 So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.
  • Jas 3:13-18 : 13 Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. 15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. 16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing. 17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
  • Mark 9:50 : 50 Salt is good; but if the taste goes from it, how will you make it salt again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Prov 25:9 : 9 Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:
  • Matt 18:15-17 : 15 And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again. 16 But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain. 17 And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.
  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.
  • 1 Pet 3:7-8 : 7 And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer. 8 Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:
  • 1 Cor 11:28 : 28 But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.

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  • Matt 5:22-23
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    22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.

    23 If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,

  • Matt 5:25-26
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    25 Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.

    26 Truly I say to you, You will not come out from there till you have made payment of the very last farthing.

  • Matt 18:15
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    15 And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.

  • Luke 17:3-4
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    3 Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.

    4 And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.

  • Mark 11:25-26
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    25 And whenever you make a prayer, let there be forgiveness in your hearts, if you have anything against anyone; so that you may have forgiveness for your sins from your Father who is in heaven.

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  • Matt 18:34-35
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    34 And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.

    35 So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.

  • Luke 12:58
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    58 For if anyone has a cause at law against you, and you are going with him before the ruler, make an attempt, on the way, to come to an agreement with him, for if you do not, he may take you before the judge and the judge will give you up to the police, and they will put you in prison.

  • Matt 7:3-5
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    3 And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

    4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye?

    5 You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

  • Matt 5:38-42
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    38 You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

    39 But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned.

    40 And if any man goes to law with you and takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe from him.

    41 And whoever makes you go one mile, go with him two.

    42 Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.

  • Luke 6:29-30
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    29 If a man gives you a blow on one side of your face, then let the other side be turned to him; from him who takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe.

    30 Give to everyone who comes with a request, and if a man takes away your property, make no attempt to get it back again.

  • Eccl 5:1
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    1 Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

  • Matt 6:14-15
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    14 For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.

    15 But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.

  • Jas 5:9
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    9 Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

  • Luke 6:37
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    37 Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged: do not give punishment to others, and you will not get punishment yourselves: make others free, and you will be made free:

  • Acts 8:22
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    22 Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

  • 1 Kgs 8:31
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    31 If a man does wrong to his neighbour, and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

  • 2 Chr 6:22
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    22 If a man does wrong to his neighbour and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

  • Deut 22:1-2
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    1 If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

    2 If their owner is not near, or if you are not certain who he is, then take the beast to your house and keep it till its owner comes in search of it, and then you are to give it back to him.

  • Matt 6:1
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    1 Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

  • Lev 19:17
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    17 Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

  • Jer 7:5
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    5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

  • Gen 27:44-45
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    44 And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away;

    45 Till the memory of what you have done to him is past and he is no longer angry: then I will send word for you to come back; are the two of you to be taken from me in one day?

  • 2 Thess 3:15
    68%

    15 Have no feeling of hate for him, but take him in hand seriously as a brother.

  • Luke 6:41-42
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    41 And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

    42 How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.

  • Prov 6:3
    67%

    3 Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

  • Deut 19:19
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    19 Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.

  • Matt 6:4
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    4 So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

  • Col 3:13
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    13 Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

  • 1 Cor 6:6-7
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    6 But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges.

    7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

  • Eccl 5:6
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    6 Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

  • Matt 15:5
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    5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

  • Eph 4:26
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    26 Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

  • Matt 10:13
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    13 And if the house is good enough, let your peace come on it: but if not, let your peace come back to you.