Lexham English Bible

Matthew 5:32-45 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

32. But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

33. “Again you have heard that it was said to the people of old, ‘Do not swear falsely, but fulfill your oaths to the Lord.’

34. But I say to you, do not swear at all, either by heaven, because it is the throne of God,

35. or by the earth, because it is the footstool of his feet, or by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great king.

36. And do not swear by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.

37. But let your statement be ‘Yes, yes; no, no,’ and anything beyond these is from the evil one.

38. “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

39. But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer, but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also.

40. And the one who wants to go to court with you and take your tunic, let him have your outer garment also.

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

42. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

43. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’

44. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

45. in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, because he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust.