Overcome Evil with Good

Verse: Matthew 5:40-42 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you....

More Like Jesus

Verse: Matthew 5:38-39 “You have heard that is was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’  39 But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.  If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Devotion This scripture is often used (incorrectly)...

Empty Words?

Verse: Matthew 5:36-37 And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil. Devotion I love the practicality of this. Have you ever sworn to someone that...

The Help of Jesus in Marriage

Verse: Matthew 5:31-32  31 It was also said, Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a...

The Cost of Holding Grudges

Verse: Matthew 5:25-26 25 Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.26 Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have...