22But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
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We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. …
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? …
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: …
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: …
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…
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