| Matthew 5:24 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | leave your gift at the altar. First go away and make peace with that person. Then come back and offer your gift.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. |
| ASV: | leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. |
| BBE: | While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering. |
| DBY: | leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. |
| ERV: | leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. |
| WEY: | leave your gift there before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother first, and then return and proceed to offer your gift. |
| WBS: | Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. |
| WEB: | leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. |
| YLT: | leave there thy gift before the altar, and go -- first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift. |
| Matthew 5:24 Cross References |
| XREF: | Romans 12:17 Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.
Romans 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| PNT: | 5:23,24 Therefore if thou shalt bring thy gift to the altar. This springs immediately out of the modification of the law, Thou shalt not kill, which required that there should be no anger with a brother. If about to offer a gift on the altar, and the remembrance comes that a brother hath aught against thee, leave the gift, go and make it right with him, and then offer thy gift. This shows that one guilty of wrongs to his fellow-man cannot offer acceptable worship of God. |
| WES: | 5:24 Leaving thy gift, go - For neither thy gift nor thy prayer will atone for thy want of love: but this will make them both an abomination before God. |
| MHC: | 5:21-26 The Jewish teachers had taught, that nothing except actual murder was forbidden by the sixth commandment. Thus they explained away its spiritual meaning. Christ showed the full meaning of this commandment; according to which we must be judged hereafter, and therefore ought to be ruled now. All rash anger is heart murder. By our brother, here, we are to understand any person, though ever so much below us, for we are all made of one blood. Raca, is a scornful word, and comes from pride: Thou fool, is a spiteful word, and comes from hatred. Malicious slanders and censures are poison that kills secretly and slowly. Christ told them that how light soever they made of these sins, they would certainly be called into judgment for them. We ought carefully to preserve Christian love and peace with all our brethren; and if at any time there is a quarrel, we should confess our fault, humble ourselves to our brother, making or offering satisfaction for wrong done in word or deed: and we should do this quickly; because, till this is done, we are unfit for communion with God in holy ordinances. And when we are preparing for any religious exercises, it is good for us to make that an occasion of serious reflection and self-examination. What is here said is very applicable to our being reconciled to God through Christ. While we are alive, we are in the way to his judgement-seat; after death, it will be too late. When we consider the importance of the case, and the uncertainty of life, how needful it is to seek peace with God, without delay! |
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