Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Some Say Do Not Commit Adultery. I Say Do Not Desire Another Woman

²⁷ “You heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit-adultery’. ²⁸ But I say to you that everyone looking-at a woman so-as to desire^[a] her already committed-adultery-with her in his heart. ²⁹ And if your right eye is causing you to fall, tear it out^[b] and throw it from you. For it is better^[c] for you that one of your body-parts perish and your whole body not be thrown into Gehenna. ³⁰ And if your right hand is causing you to fall, cut it off and throw it from you. For it is better for you that one of your body-parts perish and your whole body not go into Gehenna.

Some Say Get a Legal Divorce. I Say Divorcees Who Remarry Commit Adultery

³¹ “And it was said, ‘Whoever sends-away^[d] his wife, let him give her a divorce^[e] certificate’. ³² But I say to you that everyone sending-away his wife except for a matter^[f] of sexual-immorality is causing her to commit-adultery^[g]. And whoever marries a woman having been sent-away [from her husband] is committing-adultery.

Some Say Do Not Break Your Oath. I Say Do Not Swear an Oath At All

³³ “Again, you heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not break-your-oath^[h], but you shall pay your oaths to the Lord’. ³⁴ But I say to you not to swear-with-an-oath^[i] at all— ³⁵ neither by heaven, because it is the throne of God; nor by earth, because it is a footstool of His feet; nor with reference to Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King; ³⁶ nor may you swear-with-an-oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.