Matthew 5:26

New English Translation

I tell you the truth, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!

Cross References

Matthew 10:29

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

Matthew 18:34

And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.

Matthew 25:41

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

Matthew 25:46

And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Mark 12:42

And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, worth less than a penny.

Luke 12:58

As you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, so that he will not drag you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

Luke 12:59

I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the very last cent!”

Luke 16:26

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

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

James 2:13

For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.