Matthew 5:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ 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

²⁴ 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)

²⁴ 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

²⁴ 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

²⁴ 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.

Matthew 5:24 Cross References

James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.

Job 42:8

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 done.”

Proverbs 25:9

Argue your case with your neighbor directly, and do not disclose another’s secret,

1 Timothy 2:8

I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument,

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.

1 Corinthians 11:28

Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

Mark 9:50

Salt is good, but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Matthew 5:23

So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something against you,