You blind people! Which is more important, the gift or the Altar that makes the gift sacred?
Matthew 5:23 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Therefore, if you are offering your [sacrificial] gift on the Altar and [just then] you remember that your brother has a grievance against you, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So if when you are offering your gift at the altar you there remember that your brother has any [grievance] against you, American Standard Version (1901) If therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, Common English Bible Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, if you offer your gift at the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath any thing against thee; |
You blind people! Which is more important, the gift or the Altar that makes the gift sacred?
[stop right there]; leave your gift at the Altar and [immediately] go to that brother and settle the matter first, before returning to offer your gift.
Jesus said to him, “Be sure you do not tell anyone [about your healing yet]; but [first] go and show yourself to the priest and then offer the [sacrificial] gift required by the Law of Moses [See Lev. 13:49; 14:2ff], as evidence to them [that you have been healed].”
And whenever you stand praying, forgive whatever [grievance] you might have against anyone, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you of your sins.”
Then Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I [plan to] give half of my possessions to poor people. And if I have cheated anyone out of something, [I promise] to repay them four times as much.”