This volume treats Matthew 5 through 7 in full. Boice works through the Beatitudes and the images of salt and light, Christ's relation to the law and His intensification of it in the matters of anger, lust, divorce, oaths, retaliation and love of enemies, then the warnings against performing righteousness before men, the Lord's Prayer, the cure for anxiety, the prohibition of hypocritical judging, the narrow gate, false prophets, and the house built on rock.

The Boice Expositional Commentary series grew out of James Montgomery Boice's pulpit ministry at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, which means the chapters began as sermons and read like them: Reformed in conviction, pastoral in tone, and free of technical apparatus. The Sermon on the Mount is both the best known and the least obeyed portion of Christ's teaching, and Boice refuses to soften its demands or to turn them into mere ideals. Suited to personal study, small groups, and preachers approaching these chapters.