Hard Sayings of Jesus

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

Take up your cross and follow me.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Sell your possessions and give to the poor.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.

If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.

Forgive seventy times seven.

Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

The first shall be last, and the last shall be first.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell.

Let the dead bury their own dead.

You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?

Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.

For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.

Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.

Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.

Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.

I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me.

I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world – to bear witness to the truth.

I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.