- From the mount (in Matthew).
- 5.1-2. The background of the Sermon on the Mount.
- 5.3-12. Beatitudes: Both awesome and awful.
- 5.13. The earth’s salt.
- 5.14-16. The world’s light.
- 5.17-20. We gotta be better than “the righteous.”
- 5.21-22. Our anger might create big, big trouble.
- 5.23-24. God doesn’t want angry worshipers.
- 5.25-26. Make peace with your enemies.
- 5.27-28. Our lusts might create big, big trouble.
- 5.29-30. Cutting it off.
- 5.31-32. Jesus and divorce.
- 5.33-37. Oaths, honesty, and multiple levels of truth.
- 5.38-42. Jesus rejects karmic thinking.
- 5.43-44. Love your enemies.
- 5.44-48. Be indiscriminate in loving other people.
- 6.1-4. For whom are you doing charity?
- 6.5. The street-corner show-off.
- 6.6. Get in the closet.
- 6.7-8. Do not pad your prayers.
- 6.8. Don’t let God’s foreknowledge weird you out about prayer!
- 6.9-10. Our Father who art in heaven.
- 6.9. Hallowed be thy name.
- 6.10. Thy kingdom come.
- 6.11. Daily bread.
- 6.12. Is it “debts” or “trespasses”?
- 6.13. Lead us not into temptation.
- 6.13. Deliver us from evil.
- 6.13. For thine is the kingdom…
- 6.14-15. Prayer’s one prerequisite: Forgiveness.
- 6.19-21. Treasures in heaven.
- 6.22-23. Generosity and stinginess in God’s kingdom.
- 6.24. Worshiping Mammon instead of Jesus.
- 6.25-34. Worrying has no place in God’s kingdom.
- 7.1-5. Double standards.
- 7.6. Deaf ears aren’t opportunities.
- 7.7-11. Can we really ask God for anything we want?
- 7.12. The Golden Rule.
- 7.13-14. The narrow gate. Or door. Either way, tricky to get in.
- 7.15-20. Watch out for fake and fleshly prophets.
- 7.21-23. When Jesus says, “I don’t know you.”
- 7.24-27. The Sermon on the Mount.
- From the plain (in Luke).
- 6.20-26. Awesome and awful.
- 6.27-28. Love your enemies.
- 6.27-30. Jesus rejects karmic thinking.
- 6.31. The Golden Rule.
- 6.31-36. Be indiscriminate in loving other people.
- 6.37-38, 41-42. Double standards.
- 6.39-40. Can’t see; pretty sure they can.*
- 6.43-45. Watch out for fake and fruitless prophets.*
- 6.46. When Jesus says, “I don’t know you.”
- 6.47-49. The Sermon on the Mount.
