Matthew 5:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ Truly I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Truly I say to you, you will not be released until you have paid the last fraction of a penny.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing.

Common English Bible

²⁶ I say to you in all seriousness that you won’t get out of there until you’ve paid the very last penny.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Amen I say to you, that you shall not go forth from there, until you have repaid the last quarter.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.

Matthew 5:26 Cross References

Matthew 10:29

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Matthew 18:34

And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt.

Matthew 25:41

Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You who are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels,

Matthew 25:46

And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.”

Mark 12:42

A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny.

Luke 12:58

Thus when you go with your accuser before a magistrate, on the way make an effort to reach a settlement, or you may be dragged before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you in prison.

Luke 12:59

I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny.”

Luke 16:26

Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’

2 Thessalonians 1:9

These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

James 2:13

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.