11. Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you, and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake.
12. Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
13. Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have become insipid, wherewith shall it be salted? It is no longer fit for anything but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot by men.
14. Ye are the light of the world: a city situated on the top of a mountain cannot be hid.
15. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under the bushel, but upon the lamp-stand, and it shines for all who are in the house.
16. Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see your upright works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
17. Think not that I am come to make void the law or the prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.
18. For verily I say unto you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all come to pass.
19. Whosoever then shall do away with one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall practise and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.
20. For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
21. Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill; but whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the judgment.
22. But I say unto you, that every one that is lightly angry with his brother shall be subject to the judgment; but whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be subject to be called before the sanhedrim; but whosoever shall say, Fool, shall be subject to the penalty of the hell of fire.
23. If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something against thee,
24. leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.