Matius 5:12

5:12 Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

Matius 12:50

12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is ¹  my brother and sister and mother.”

Matius 19:5

19:5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ² 

Matius 22:37

22:37 Jesus ³  said to him, “‘Love ⁴  the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ⁵ 

[12:50]  ¹ tn The pleonastic pronoun αὐτός (autos, “he”) which precedes this verb has not been translated.

[19:5]  ² sn A quotation from Gen 2:24.

[22:37]  ³ tn Grk “And he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[22:37]  ⁴ tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).

[22:37]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Deut 6:5. The threefold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.