Matthew 5:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Leave your gift at the altar and go. First make peace with your brother, and then come back and present your gift. American Standard Version (1901) leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Common English Bible leave your gift at the altar and go. First make things right with your brother or sister and then come back and offer your gift. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother: and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift. |
Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not disclose another's secret;
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its saltness, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.