“For I tell you, unless your righteousness (your uprightness and your right standing with God) is more than that...
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” – Matthew 5:14...
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste (its strength, its quality), how...
“Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous – with life-joy and satisfaction in God ‘s favor and salvation,...
“Blessed and happy and enviably fortunate and spiritually prosperous (in the state in which the born-again child of God...
“Blessed [spiritually calm with life-joy in God’s favor] are the makers and maintainers of peace, for they will [express...