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Matthew 5:25-33 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.

30. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body go into Hell.

31. And it has been said: 'Whoever would dismiss his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.'

32. But I say to you, that anyone who will have dismissed his wife, except in the case of fornication, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever will have married her who has been dismissed commits adultery.

33. Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients: 'You shall not swear falsely. For you shall repay your oaths to the Lord.'

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