25 Settle the case quickly with your accuser[a] 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. 26 Truly I say to you, you will never come out of there until you have paid back the last penny!

The Sermon on the Mount: Adultery and Lust

27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:25 Literally “be making friends quickly with your accuser”
  2. Matthew 5:27 A quotation from Exod 20:14; Deut 5:17