Law Teaching

25Come to terms with your accuser quickly, while you are with him on the way, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

26Truly I tell you, you will certainly not get out of there until you have paid the last quadrans.

27You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’

28But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman in order to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

29But if your right eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members should perish than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.

30And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better for you that one of your members should perish than that your whole body should go into Gehenna.

31But it was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

32But 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 divorced woman commits adultery.