Popular Bible Verses from Matthew 5

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And who would light a lamp and then hide it in an obscure place? Instead, it’s placed where everyone in the house can benefit from its light. So don’t hide your light! Let it shine brightly before others, so that your commendable works will shine as light upon them, and then they will give their praise to your Father in heaven.”

“Your lives light up the world. For how can you hide a city that stands on a hilltop?

“What bliss you experience when your heart is pure! For then your eyes will open to see more and more of God.

“How enriched you are when you crave righteousness! For you will be satisfied.

However, I say to you, love your enemy, bless the one who curses you, do something wonderful for the one who hates you, and respond to the very ones who persecute you by praying for them.

“What happiness comes to you when you feel your spiritual poverty! For yours is the realm of heaven’s kingdom.

“How joyful you are when you make peace! For then you will be recognized as a true child of God.

“What delight comes to you when you wait upon the Lord! For you will find what you long for.

“How enriched you are when persecuted for doing what is right! For then you experience the realm of heaven’s kingdom.

“How blessed you are when you demonstrate tender mercy! For tender mercy will be demonstrated to you.

“How blessed you are when people insult and persecute you and speak all kinds of cruel lies about you because of your love for me! So leap for joy—since your heavenly reward is great. For you are being rejected the same way the prophets were before you.

“What blessing comes to you when gentleness lives in you! For you will inherit the earth.

“Your lives are like salt among the people. But if you, like salt, become bland, how can your ‘saltiness’ be restored? Flavorless salt is good for nothing and will be thrown out and trampled on by others.

Since you are children of a perfect Father in heaven, become perfect like him.”

A simple ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ will suffice. Anything beyond this springs from a deceiver.

“Your ancestors have also been taught, ‘Take an eye in exchange for an eye and a tooth in exchange for a tooth.’ However, I say to you, don’t repay an evil act with another evil act. But whoever insults you by slapping you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

If your right eye seduces you to fall into sin, then go blind in your right eye! For you’re better off losing sight in one eye than to have your whole body thrown into hell. And if your right hand entices you to sin, let it go limp and useless! For you’re better off losing a part of your body than to have it all thrown into hell.