"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.

For I tell you, as long as heaven and earth endure, not one dotting of an i or crossing of a t will be dropped from the Law until it is all observed.

But your way of speaking must be 'Yes' or 'No.' Anything that goes beyond that comes from the evil one.

But I tell you not to resist injury, but if anyone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other to him too;

And where no one will welcome you, or listen to you, leave that house or town and shake off its very dust from your feet.

Peter answered, "If it is you, Master, order me to come to you on the water."

For John came to you with a way of uprightness, and you would not believe him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes believed him, but even after seeing that, you would not change your minds and believe him!

So they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, to say to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth, and teach the way of God with sincerity, regardless of the consequences, for you are impartial.

But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I charge you, on your oath, by the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the son of God."