Matthew Chapter 5 verse 24 Holy Bible
leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
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While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.
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leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
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Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
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leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
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leave there thy gift before the altar, and go -- first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.
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Matthew 5 : 24 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - First. Joined in the Authorized Version and Revised Version to "be reconciled," and rightly, since the point is not "the unavoidable, surprising, nay, repellent removal of one's self from the temple" (Meyer), but reconciliation. Be reconciled (διαλλάγηθι); here only in the New Testament. There seems to be no essential difference between this and καταλλάσσω (vide Thayer).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Leave there thy gift.--The words describe an act which would appear to men as a breach of liturgical propriety. To leave the gift and the priest, the act of sacrifice unfinished, would be strange and startling, yet that, our Lord teaches, were better than to sacrifice with the sense of a wrong unconfessed and unatoned for, and, a fortiori, better than the deeper evil of not being ready to forgive. The Talmud gives a curious rule, to which the words may perhaps allude: "If a man is on the point of offering the Passover, and remembers that there is any leaven left in the house, let him return to his house, and remove it, and then come and finish the Passover" (Pesachim, f. 49). What the scribes laid down as a duty in regard to the "leaven of bread," our Lord applies to the leaven of malice and wickedness.Be reconciled.--It is not enough to see in this only a command to remove ill-will and enmity from our own mind, though that, of course, is implied. There must be also confession of wrong and the endeavour to make amends, to bring about, as far as in us lies, reconciliation, or atonement.
