Matthew 5:20 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁰ 8 But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For I tell you, unless your righteousness (your uprightness and your right standing with God) is more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Common English Bible

²⁰ I say to you that unless your righteousness is greater than the righteousness of the legal experts and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ For I say to you, that unless your justice has surpassed that of the scribes and the Pharisees you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:20 Cross References

Matthew 16:12

0 Then he commanded his disciples, that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.

Matthew 18:5

3 And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.

Matthew 3:10

THEN Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.

Matthew 7:21

9 For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes and Pharisees.

Mark 10:15

3 And Jesus looking round about, saith to his disciples: How hardly shall they that have riches, enter into the kingdom of God!

Mark 10:25

3 Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests, and to the scribes and ancients, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles.

Luke 11:44

2 Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you yourselves have not entered in, and those that were entering in, you have hindered.

Luke 12:1

But he that shall deny me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God.

Luke 18:17

5 For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 3:9

8 But we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17

In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Philippians 3:9

8 For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;

Hebrews 12:14

3 And to the church of the firstborn, who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

Revelation 21:27

And he said to me: See thou do it not: for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them that keep the words of the prophecy of this book. Adore God.