Matthew 5:22

Jesus teaches that unjustified anger and contemptuous words make one liable to judgment, even to hell. It traces murder back to the sinful anger of the heart.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Jn 3:14–15We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
• 1 Jn 4:20–21If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
• 1 Jn 2:9He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
• Eph 4:26–27“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
• Eph 4:31–32Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• Jas 3:6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
• Titus 3:2to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
• Matt 10:28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
• Matt 18:35So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”
• Rom 12:10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
• 1 Pet 3:9not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
• Ps 109:3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
• Matt 18:21Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
• 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
• Matt 5:23–24“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
• Ps 37:8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing.
• Jude 1:9But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”
• 1 Jn 3:10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
• 1 Th 4:6that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
• Mark 14:55Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.
• Matt 26:59Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
• Acts 17:18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
• Luke 16:23–24In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
• John 11:47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
• Deut 15:11For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
• Matt 5:34but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;
• Gen 37:4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
• Prov 14:16A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
• Matt 18:8–9If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
• Rev 20:14Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
• Luke 12:5But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
• Matt 5:28–30but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• Obad 1:10For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
• Ps 7:4if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
• Jas 2:20But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
• Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• Ps 14:1For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
• John 8:48Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
• Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
• Prov 18:6A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

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