Erste Lesung
Sirach 15: 15-20
15:15 He added his commandments and precepts.
15:16 If you choose to keep the commandments, und wenn, having chosen them, you fulfill them with perpetual fidelity, they will preserve you.
15:17 He has set water and fire before you. Extend your hand to whichever one you would choose.
15:18 Before man is life and death, good and evil. Whichever one he chooses will be given to him.
15:19 For the wisdom of God is manifold. And he is strong in power, seeing all things without ceasing.
15:20 The eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear him, and he knows each one of the works of man.
Zweite Lesung
Erster Brief an die Korinther 2: 6-10
2:6 Jetzt, Wir sprechen Weisheit unter den Vollkommenen, doch wahrhaftig, Das ist nicht die Weisheit unseres Zeitalters, noch das der Führer dieses Zeitalters, was auf nichts reduziert werden soll.
2:7 Stattdessen, Wir sprechen von der Weisheit Gottes in einem verborgenen Geheimnis, die Gott vor diesem Zeitalter zu unserer Ehre vorherbestimmt hat,
2:8 etwas, das keiner der Führer dieser Welt wusste. Denn wenn sie es gewusst hätten, Sie hätten den Herrn der Herrlichkeit niemals gekreuzigt.
2:9 Aber das ist genau so, wie es geschrieben wurde: „Das Auge hat nicht gesehen, und das Ohr hat nicht gehört, noch ist es in das Herz des Menschen gelangt, welche Dinge Gott für diejenigen vorbereitet hat, die ihn lieben.“
2:10 Aber Gott hat uns diese Dinge durch seinen Geist offenbart. Denn der Geist erforscht alle Dinge, sogar die Tiefen Gottes.
Evangelium
Matthew 5: 17-37
5:17 Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill.
5:18 Amen, das sage ich dir, sicherlich, until heaven and earth pass away, not one iota, not one dot shall pass away from the law, until all is done.
5:19 Deshalb, whoever will have loosened one of the least of these commandments, and have taught men so, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever will have done and taught these, such a one shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
5:20 Denn ich sage es dir, that unless your justice has surpassed that of the scribes and the Pharisees you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
5:21 You have heard that it was said to the ancients: ‘You shall not murder; whoever will have murdered shall be liable to judgment.’
5:22 Aber ich sage es dir, that anyone who becomes angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment. But whoever will have called his brother, ‘Idiot,’ shall be liable to the council. Dann, whoever will have called him, ‘Worthless,’ shall be liable to the fires of Hell.
5:23 Deshalb, if you offer your gift at the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you,
5:24 leave your gift there, before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to your brother, and then you may approach and offer your gift.
5:25 Be reconciled with your adversary quickly, while you are still on the way with him, lest perhaps the adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you will be thrown in prison.
5:26 Amen, das sage ich dir, that you shall not go forth from there, until you have repaid the last quarter.
5:27 You have heard that it was said to the ancients: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
5:28 Aber ich sage es dir, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
5:29 And if your right eye causes you to sin, root it out and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body be cast into Hell.
5:30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body go into Hell.
5:31 And it has been said: ‘Whoever would dismiss his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.’
5:32 Aber ich sage es dir, that anyone who will have dismissed his wife, except in the case of fornication, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever will have married her who has been dismissed commits adultery.
5:33 Nochmal, you have heard that it was said to the ancients: ‘You shall not swear falsely. For you shall repay your oaths to the Lord.’
5:34 Aber ich sage es dir, do not swear an oath at all, auch nicht beim Himmel, for it is the throne of God,
5:35 nor by earth, for it is his footstool, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king.
5:36 Neither shall you swear an oath by your own head, because you are not able to cause one hair to become white or black.
5:37 But let your word ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ For anything beyond that is of evil.