2 Quotes & Sayings By Matthew 5:8
Matthew 5:8 You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. In the Old Testament, this commandment is found in Leviticus 19:18 'You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite. Love your neighbor as yourself.' In the New Testament, in Matthew 7:12-14, Jesus expands on this commandment in a parable in which a woman is accused of adultery by her neighbor's wife. Jesus said that she must neither give evidence nor call on anyone to prove her innocence
In this case, she was innocent. In the Parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25, Jesus says that when we come to someone in need, we must do for them whatever they require from us. In Luke 10:33-37, Jesus said that when he returns, he will send his angels to gather those who have been faithful and will bring them into his kingdom.
In Matthew 5:21-22, Jesus says that if we have any animosity toward our brother or sister we should pray for them and forgive them because the Lord has forgiven them many times over. Finally, in Luke 6:35-36 Jesus says that if we have any bitterness or anger toward our brother or sister we should offer ourselves as a sacrifice so that the person will be saved from sin and from eternal condemnation. In Deut 24:16-17 'The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.' In Exod 20:5-6 it is written 'You shall not bow down to them nor serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God.' In Rev 2:14 it is written 'I will kill her children with death.' In Rev 3:14 it is written 'They are of their father the devil and worketh wonders, they speak great swelling words of vanity...' In Rev 13:15 it is written 'These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.'