Matthew 5:26 - Plain English Version

²⁶ And you will stay in jail until you give that other person all the money that you owe them. That’s for sure.”

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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.

Matthew 5:26 Cross References

Matthew 10:29

Think about those little birds called sparrows. They don’t cost very much. You can buy them for a few dollars. But God remembers each one of them anyway. And if one of them falls down to the ground, God knows about it.

Matthew 18:34

The big boss was really angry, and he told the soldiers to grab that work-man, to beat him up, and to put him in jail. He will stay there until he can give all that money back to the big boss.”

Matthew 25:41

Then I will turn to the people on my left-hand side, and I will say to them, ‘Get away from me, you mob that God will punish. Go into that big fire that burns for ever. God made that fire for all the bad spirits and for their boss, the devil. And you have to go there too.

Matthew 25:46

Then that bad mob will go to the bad place, and God will punish them for ever. But the good mob will go to live in the good place for ever.” (We have not yet translated 26:1—27:62a. You can read those stories and messages in Mark chapters 14 and 15, and Luke chapters 22 and 23. They are about the way people killed Jesus, and put his body in a cave, and blocked that cave with a big stone.)

Mark 12:42

But then a poor widow woman came in, and she didn’t put much money into the money box. She just put in 2 very little coins.

Luke 16:26

And anyway, he can’t go to you. There is a really big gully in between this place and that place where you are. Nobody can cross over from here to that place, and nobody can come from that place to here.’

2 Thessalonians 1:9

God will go on punishing them for ever. He will properly ruin them. He will shut them out so they can never come near our leader Jesus. They will never see how really great and powerful he is.

James 2:13

Later on, God will judge you. And if you don’t feel sorry for other people now, then God will not feel sorry for you. But if you feel sorry for them now, and if you are good to them, God will feel sorry for you later on, when he judges you, and he will be good to you. You see, people that are sorry for other people don’t have to worry about God judging them.