Jesus Christ

Founder of Christianity

Ancient influential 156 sayings

Sayings by Jesus Christ

Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6:27-28)
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Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

c. 30-33 CE — From the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7:3)
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Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:1)
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Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.

c. 30-33 CE — From a teaching on servant leadership (Mark 10:43-44)
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Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar—and to God what belongs to God.

c. 30-33 CE — From a response to a question about paying taxes (Mark 12:17)
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If you love me, keep my commands.

c. 30-33 CE — From a discourse with his disciples (John 14:15)
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I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

c. 30-33 CE — From a declaration of his identity (John 8:12)
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Do to others as you would have them do to you.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6:31)
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A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

c. 30-33 CE — From a final discourse with his disciples (John 13:34)
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Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

c. 30-33 CE — From a conversation with the Samaritan woman (John 4:13-14)
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My kingdom is not of this world.

c. 30-33 CE — From a response to Pilate (John 18:36)
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If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:31)
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So the last will be first, and the first will be last.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20:16)
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The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Parable of the Weeds (Matthew 13:24-25)
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Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders (Matthew 7:24)
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Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.

c. 30-33 CE — From a teaching on receiving the Kingdom of God (Mark 10:15)
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The kingdom of God is within you.

c. 30-33 CE — From a response to the Pharisees (Luke 17:21)
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It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

c. 30-33 CE — From a response to criticism about associating with sinners (Luke 5:31-32)
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Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

c. 30-33 CE — From the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:7)
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If you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

c. 30-33 CE — From a teaching on forgiveness (Matthew 6:14-15)
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