NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 5:23

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23

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

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Verse 23. He commands us to leave unfinished any work we may have begun, though in its own nature most acceptable to God, in order to go and be reconciled to our brother; because God will have mercy and not sacrifice. Thus he in a manner seems to prefer the love of our neighbour to the love of himself. Menochius.

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