Matthew 5:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

Matthew 5:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 5:17
Thou shalt not kill.
Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill.
Numbers 35:30-34
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. …
Exodus 21:12-14
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. …
Numbers 35:16-21
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-26)

Christ having laid down these principles, that Moses and the prophets were still to be their rulers, but that the scribes and Pharisees were to be no longer their rulers, proceeds to expound the law in some particular instances, and to vindicate it from the corrupt glosses which those expositors had put upon it. He adds not any thing new, only limits and restrains some permissions which had been a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time--or, as in the Margin, “to them of old time.” Which of these translations is the right one has been much controverted. Either of them is grammatically defensible, though the latter--“to the ancients”--is more consistent with New Testament usage (see the Greek of Ro 9:12, 26; Re 6:11; 9:4); and most critics decide in favor of it. But it is not…