Do the things that will show that you have turned form your sins.
(Matthew 3:8, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor:
the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them!
Happy are those who mourn:
God will comfort them!
Happy are the meek:
they will receive what God has promised!
Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires:
God will satisfy them fully!
Happy are those who show mercy to others:
God will show mercy to them!
Happy are those the pure in heart:
they will see God!
Happy are those who work for peace among men:
God will call them his sons!
Happy are those who suffer persecution because they do what God requires:
the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them!
Happy are you when men insult you and mistreat you and tell all kinds of evil lies against you because you are my followers. Rejoice and be glad, because a great reward is kept for you in heaven.
(Matthew 5:3-12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
You are like light for the whole world.
(Matthew 5:14)
Your light must shine before people, so that they will see the good things you do and give praise to your Father in heaven.
(Matthew 5:16, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Do not use any vow when you make a promise; do not swear by haven, because it is God’s throne; nor by earth, because it is the resting place for h his feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King. Do not even swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black. Just say ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’
(Matthew 5:34-37, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Do not take revenge on someone who does you wrong.
(Matthew 5:39, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
When someone asks you for something, give it to him; when someone wants to borrow something, lend it to him.
(Matthew 5:42, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.
(Matthew 5:44-45)
Love your enemies, and pray for those who mistreat you, so that you will become the sons of your Father in heaven.
(Matthew 5:44-45, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
You must be perfect just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
(Matthew 5:48)
You must always act like your Father in heaven.
(Matthew 5:48, Contemporary English Version)
Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men, to be seen by them.
(Mathew 6:1)
When you help a needy person, do it in such a way that even your closest friend will not know about it, but it will be a private matter.
(Matthew 6:3, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Your Father already knows what you need before you ask him.
(Matthew 6:8)
Your heart will always be where your riches are.
(Matthew 6:21)
You cannot serve both God and money.
(Matthew 6:24)
God will judge you in the same way that you judge others.
(Matthew 7:2)
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door will be opened.
(Matthew 7:7,8)
Your Father in heaven will give good things to those who ask him!
(Matthew 7:11, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Do for others what you want them to do for you.
(Matthew 7:12 / Tobit 4:15)
You will know them by what they do.
(Matthew 7:16)
You can tell what they are by what they do.
(Matthew 7:16, Contemporary English Version)
You will know false prophets by what they do.
(Matthew 7:20)
You will know the false prophets by the way they act.
(Matthew 7:20, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The crowds were amazed at the way he taught. He wasn`t like their teachers of the Law; instead, he taught with authority.
(Matthew 7:28-29, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Jesus was surprised.
(Matthew 8:10, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Many will come from the east and the west and sit down at the table in the Kingdom of heaven with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
(Matthew 8:11, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Jesus drove out the evil spirits with a word.
(Matthew 8:16, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
“Follow me.”
(Matthew 8:22)
Everyone was amazed.
(Matthew 8:27, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
“The Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.”
(Matthew 9:6, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
“People who are well do not need a doctor, but only those who are sick.”
(Matthew 9:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
“I have not come to call respectable people, but outcasts.”
(Matthew 9:13)
“I didn’t come to invite good people to be my followers. I came to invite sinners.”
(Matthew 9:13, Contemporary English Version)
Everybody was amazed.
(Matthew 9:33, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Go and preach, The Kingdom of heaven is near.
(Matthew 10:7, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
You have received without paying, so give without being paid.
(Matthew 10:8, Good News Bible)
You must be as cautious as snakes and as gentle as doves.
(Matthew 10:16, Good News Bible)
Everyone will hate you, because of me.
(Matthew 10:22, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
(Matthew 10:28)
Do not be afraid of men.
(Matthew 10:28, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If anyone declares publicly that he belongs to me, I will do the same for him before my Father in heaven.
(Matthew 10:32)
Whoever does not take up his cross and follow in my steps is not worthy of me.
(Matthew 10:28, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God’s wisdom is shown to be true by its results.
(Matthew 11:19)
Wisdom is shown to be right by what it does.
(Matthew 11:19, Contemporary English Version)
God`s wisdom, however, is shown to be true by its results.
(Matthew 11:19, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Come to me you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
(Matthew 11:28)
Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying your heavy loads, and I will give you rest.
(Matthew 11:28, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.
(Matthew 12:8, Good News Bible)
The crowds were amazed.
(Matthew 12:23, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Anyone who is not for me is really against me.
(Matthew 12:30, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
(Matthew 12:34, Good News Bible)
Your words will be used to judge you.
(Matthew 12:37, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Whoever does what my Father in heaven wants him to do is my brother, my sister, and my mother.
(Matthew 12:48, Good News Bible)
The person who does what my Father in heaven wants him to do is my brother, my sister, my mother.
(Matthew 12:50, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
“Everyone who has done right will shine like the sun in their Father’s kingdom.”
(Matthew 13:43, Contemporary English Version)
“The kingdom of heaven is like what happens when a net is thrown into ta lake and catches all kinds of fish.”
(Matthew 13:47, Contemporary English Version)
“Every student of the Scriptures who becomes a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like someone who brings out new and old reassures from the storeroom.”
(Matthew 13:52, Contemporary English Version)
Those who heard him were amazed.
(Matthew 13:54, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
His heart was filled with pity for them.
(Matthew 14:14, Good News Bible)
When he saw the large crowd his heart was filled with pity for them.
(Matthew 14:14, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
“It is useless for you to worship me,
when you teach rules made up by humans.”
(Matthew 15:6, Contemporary English Version)
Listen and understand!
(Matthew 15:10, Good News Bible)
It is not what goes into a person’s mouth that makes him unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes his unclean.
(Matthew 15:11, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The things that come out of the mouth come from the heart; such things make a man unclean.
(Matthew 15:18, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Eating without washing your hands will not make you unfit to worship God.
(Mathew 15:20, Contemporary English Version)
If you have faith as big as a mustard seed, you can say to this hill, ‘Go from here to there!’ and it will go. You could do anything!
(Matthew 17:20, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child. And the person who welcomes in my name one such child as this, welcomes me.
(Matthew 18:3-5, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith.
(Matthew 18:7, Good News Bible)
The world is in for trouble because of the way it causes people to sin. There will always be something to cause people to sin.
(Matthew 18:7, Contemporary English Version)
The Son of Man came to save the lost.
(Matthew 18:11, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Where two or three come together in my name, I am there with them.
(Matthew 18:20)
Large crowds followed him.
(Matthew 19:2, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Man must not separate, then, what God has joined together.
(Matthew 19:6, Good News Bible)
Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of heaven belong to uh as these.
(Matthew 19:14, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me.
(Matthew 19:21, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
For God everything is possible.
(Matthew 19:26)
There are some things that people cannot do, but God can do anything.
(Matthew 19:26. Contemporary English Version)
For God everything is possible.
(Matthew 19:26, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Many who are now first will be last, and many who now are last will be first.
(Matthew 19:30, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last.
(Matthew 20:16, Good News Bible)
If one of you wants to be great he must be the servant of the rest.
(Matthew 20:26)
A large crowd followed Jesus.
(Matthew 20:29, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Jesus had pity on them.
(Matthew 20:34, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
When Jesus entered Jerusalem the whole city was thrown in an uproar.
(Matthew 21:10, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
(Matthew 21:22, Good News Bible)
Many are invited, but few are chosen.
(Matthew 22:14)
Pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and pay to God what belongs to God.
(Matthew 22:21, Good News Bible)
Pay to God what belongs to God.
(Matthew 22:21)
When the dead are raised to life they will be like the angels in heaven, and men and women will not marry.
(Matthew 22:30, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
(Matthew 22:37)
Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too!
(Matthew 23:26, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The Son of Man will come like the lightning which flashes across the whole sky from the east to the west.
(Matthew 24:27, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Heaven and earth will pass away; by words will never pass away.
(Matthew 24:35, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Whenever you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refused to help me.
(Matthew 25:45, Good News Bible)
You will always have poor people with you, but you will not always have me.
(Matthew 26:11, Good News Bible)
Keep watch, and pray, so you will not all into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
(Matthew 26:41, Good News Bible)
All who take the sword will die by the sword.
(Matthew 26:52, Good News Bible)
Jesus kept quiet.
(Matthew 26:63, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
He went out and wept bitterly.
(Matthew 26:75, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Judas threw the money into the sanctuary and left them; then he went off and hanged himself.
(Matthew 27:5, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Jesus refused to answer a single word, so that the Governor was greatly surprised.
(Matthew 27:14, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
They left the tomb in a hurry, afraid and yet filled with joy.
(Matthew 28:8, Good News Bible)