33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath,but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.’34 But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all:either by heaven, for it is God’s throne;35 or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.36 And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black.37 All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’;anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
22 And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.
26 If we deliberately keep on sinningafter we have received the knowledge of the truth,no sacrifice for sins is left,27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging firethat will consume the enemies of God.28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of Godunderfoot,who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenantthat sanctified them,and who has insulted the Spiritof grace?
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47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
