Catholic Public Domain Version

Matthew 5:23-29 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

23. Therefore, if you offer your gift at the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you,

24. leave your gift there, before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to your brother, and then you may approach and offer your gift.

25. Be reconciled with your adversary quickly, while you are still on the way with him, lest perhaps the adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you will be thrown in prison.

26. Amen I say to you, that you shall not go forth from there, until you have repaid the last quarter.

27. You have heard that it was said to the ancients: 'You shall not commit adultery.'

28. But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

29. And if your right eye causes you to sin, root it out and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body be cast into Hell.