1. Blessed are they that have Count it all joy, my brethren, been persecuted for righteousness' when ye fall into manifold sake: for theirs is the temptations; knowing that the kingdom of heaven. Blessed proof of your faith worketh are ye when men shall reproach patience (i. 2, 3). you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you Take, brethren, for an example falsely, for My sake. Rejoice of suffering and of patience, and be exceeding glad: for the prophets who spake in the great is your reward in heaven: name of the Lord. Behold, we for so persecuted they the prophets call them blessed which endured which were before you (v. 10, 11). (v. 10-12).
2. Ye therefore shall be perfect, And let patience have its as your heavenly Father is perfect work, that ye may be perfect (v. 48). perfect and entire, lacking in nothing (i. 4).
3. Ask, and it shall be given But if any of you lacketh you; seek, and ye shall find; wisdom, let him ask of God, knock, and it shall be opened who giveth to all liberally and unto you: for every one that upbraideth not; and it shall be asketh receiveth (vii. 7, 8). given him (i. 5).
4. Blessed are the poor in Let the brother of low degree spirit: for theirs is the kingdom glory in his high estate (i. 9). of heaven (v. 3. Comp. Luke vi. 20). Did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom? (ii. 5).
5. Not every one that saith Be ye doers of the word, and unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall not hearers only, deluding your enter into the kingdom of own selves. For if any one is heaven; but he that doeth the a hearer of the word, and not will of My Father which is in a doer, he is like unto a man heaven.... And every one beholding his natural face in a that heareth these words of mirror (i. 22, 23). Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand (vii. 21, 26).
6. Blessed are the merciful: So speak ye, and so do, as for they shall obtain mercy (v. 7). men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. For judgment If ye forgive not men their is without mercy to him that trespasses, neither will your hath showed no mercy: mercy Father forgive your trespasses glorieth against judgment (ii. (vi. 15). 12, 13).
With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged (vii. 2).
7. Do men gather grapes of Can a fig-tree, my brethren, thorns, or figs of thistles? yield olives, or a vine figs? (vii. 16). (iii. 12).
8. No man can serve two Know ye not that the friendship masters: for either he will hate of the world is enmity the one, and love the other; or with God? Whosoever, therefore else he will hold to one, and would be a friend of the despise the other. Ye cannot world maketh himself an enemy serve God and Mammon (vi. 24). of God (iv. 4).
9. Whosoever shall humble Humble yourselves in the himself shall be exalted (xxiii. sight of the Lord, and He shall 12). exalt you (iv. 10).
10. Be not therefore anxious Whereas ye know not what for the morrow (vi. 34). shall be on the morrow (iv. 14).
11. Lay not up for yourselves Your riches are corrupted, treasures upon the earth, where and your garments are moth-eaten. moth and rust doth consume Your gold and your (vi. 19). silver are rusted (v. 2, 3).
12. Swear not at all; neither But above all things, my by the heaven, for it is the throne brethren, swear not, neither by of God; nor by the earth, for the heaven, nor by the earth, it is the footstool of His feet; nor by any other oath. nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let But let your yea be yea, and your speech, be Yea, yea; Nay, your nay, nay; that ye fall not nay: and whatsoever is more under judgment (v. 12). than these is of the evil one (v. 34-37).