Matthew 23:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

The weightier

These

Matthew 5:19

General references

Leviticus 27:30

Matthew 22:36

Matthew 23:4

Bible References

The weightier

But go and learn what that is I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous men but sinners.

But if ye had known what is: I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

And he said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding.

And Samuel said, Has Jehovah delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, As in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, Attention than the fat of rams.

To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

Shalt thou reign, because thou viest with the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? Then it was well with him.

For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

These

Whosoever then shall do away with one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall practise and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.

General references

And as to every tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of the tree, it is Jehovah's: it is holy to Jehovah.

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?

but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger.