Matthew 5:35 Nor by the Earth, for it is his footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

Matthew 5:36 Neither shalt you swear by your head, because you cannot not make one hair white or black.

Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea or Nay, nay. For whatsoever is more than these comes of evil.

Barnes Notes: A man of honor and integrity does not need oaths and swearing to convince another who may also be of honor and integrity:.James 5:12. If it's necessary to laboriously explain to someone, you can be sure thay have no insight and may be looking at what you may say for that which could be used against you in some way. In these situations it's good to know your rights and in order to know your rights, know the constitution.

2Corinthians 11:3 "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."

Exodus 20:7,8; Leviticus 19:11,12.

Matthew 5:38 You have heard that it has been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.(*).

Matthew 5:39 But I say unto you, That you resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Clarke's Commentary: According to the original translation, it ought to be translated 'Do not repel one outrage by another', that is. if someone is treating you badly, don't be toward them as he or she may be being toward you:.Matthew 22:37-40. He that does so makes himself precisely what the other is, a wicked man or woman.

Matthew 5:39 But I say unto you, That you resist.(original is 'to set one's self against', 'withstand', 'oppose', 'resist'.(James 4:7).not evil.(original 'hardships', 'painful' {things that seem bad to you; things that bring pressure upon you; things that cause desire for relief; things that cause you to only be able to see one day's food at a time, like as war causes for so many}; explained here), but whosoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Why would someone smite you for not going along with what he or she wanted you to do (such as with the covid con), if you calmly declined?.Proverbs 15:1. Learn not to exasperate a situation:.Proverbs 16:7. The verse means don't be belligerent in your manner of speaking and don't be obnoxious either, in your behavior.

Doesn't mean to be a doormat, but also doesn't mean that your other cheek won't be smitten also. It does mean, instead of fighting we acknowledge our darker side and this dissipates it. Stop blaming others for the world the way it is. It has been all of us that have caused it by how we are which has fed this information into the collective consciousness to affect all and just as it has caused the evil, so it can also cause the good:.Proverbs 20:22; 24:29; Romans 12:17-19; Lamentations 3:30; 1Peter 2:19.

God is dealing with the evil, so God says in the above scriptures 'resist not' and that God will look after it:.Romans 12:19. God's doing it so you don't have to, but you should not be ignorant of ways to get sucked into evil:.2Corinthians 2:11. Be sharp. Be alert. Apply the things that can peacefully gain you favor, the things of the rights God has given you, such as Natural Law, Common Law/Constitutional Law. Learn about how to calmly handle the scams that may be robbing you, such as the birth certificate and other scams.

Eclectic Notes: To interpret such cases in scripture as rules to be kept literally in the case specified is to make God's teaching a laughingstock to the commonsense of the world. Are we to surrender our property to any one who claims it and to give to every beggar, thus encouraging fraud and idleness? NO, but we ought to be ready to give to all who are in need and our reason for refusing to give must not be that we prefer to keep all that we have got. We are not told to give everything that is asked for, but to help every one who asks. We may give him a wholesome word or may pray for him or whatever we are both willing and able to. Christ did not consent when He was asked to interfere about the inheritance, but He gave a wholesome rebuke and warning:.Luke 12.13-15.

Matthew 5:40 And if any man will sue you at the law.(here it's talking of being in front of a judge; compare with verses 42-48 just below).and take away your coat, let him have your cloke also.

All true Christians should be preferring the ways of peace (Romans 12:18) in relationships and all interactions with others. But does that mean you should not stand up for the rights God gave you? No.

Do remain excluded from the mass mind angers that spill over into personal contentious issues and be contrary minded to temporary selfish advantages.

Matthew 5:41 And whosoever shall compel.(force, constrain; talking of those who may have authority over you for some reason).you to go a mile, go with him twain.

Original means to be forced to do that which is in good purpose for the king in his service to the nation. In this case it was delivering mail to another carrier on the king's mail route (important to get the message out) and they could ask for anyone along the route to help them in taking the mail another thousand paces; a Roman mile was a thousand paces.

Matthew 5:42 Give to him that asks you and from him that would borrow of you turn not you away.

Compare with verses 40,41 just above.

Matthew 5:43 You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

Comprised with.Barnes Notes: the law about loving one's neighbor is in Leviticus 19:18. That we must, therefore, hate our enemy, was an inference drawn from it by the corrupt teachers of religion Emmanuel castigated in Matthew 23rd chapter. They supposed that if we loved one, we must, of course, hate the other. They were total strangers to that great, peculiar law of love, which talks about loving both. A neighbor is literally one that lives near to us; after that, one that is near to us by acts of kindness and friendship:.Luke10:29. More on it.

Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.

Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies.(original for word 'enemies' is those who 'dislike' you, 'hate' you, those who are 'adversaries' toward any particular individual of good heart such as you may be, where they 'oppose' and are 'hostile' to you, meaning subjective enemies as compared to those who commit Crimes against Humanity, where it's not focused just on you, but on killing, on murdering, all they can. These are the satanic criminals, who are out to harm any and all and so they must be stopped and so one goes to war against them to protect all), bless.(original 'be good and kind to').them that curse.(original 'are ready to do negative things to you').you, do good.(what is good?).to them that hate.(original those that are 'against you and ready to be at war' with you).you and pray.(the original Greek word for 'pray' here, means 'to be all for wanting another's best':.Philippians 2:3; and, if you're all for another's best, ask the Creator for these things for others as well as for yourself; which others? you decide that!).for them which despitefully use you.(take advantage of you in some way; they don't love or even like you, you are only for them to get something from and at your expense; speaking metaphorically, the low consciousness way of uncaring is to step on you and walk away, to 'use you till you bruise and leave you to lose', you know the feeling).and persecute.(to harass enough to make another want to flee away or to keep them at bay).you.

Example:.2Kings 6:21-23. But it also says:.Deuteronomy 7:1-6. So, what's one to do, love them or kill them? Read again the above notes at this verse's beginning.

Care for your enemies.

Matthew 5:45 That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Word 'sends' not in original, just means God is responsible for creating the system that brings weather but the verse is mostly a metaphor for daily life:.Romans 11:14.

Matthew 5:46 For if you love them which love you, what reward have you? Do not even the publicans the same?

Matthew 5:47 And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others? Do not even the publicans so?

Matthew 5:48 Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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