19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. …
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. …
Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-20)Those to whom Christ preached, and for whose use he gave these instructions to his disciples, were such as in their religion had an eye, 1. To the scriptures of the Old Testament as their rule, and therein Christ here shows them they were in the right: 2. To the scribes and the Pharisees as their example , and therein Christ here shows them they were in the wrong; for, I. The rule which Christ cam…
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