Matthew 23:5

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But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

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The borders

Matthew 9:20

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TAKE heed that ye do not your alms before men, in order to catch their eye: for otherwise ye have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

And he said unto them, Ye are they who affect to be righteous persons before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is an abomination in the sight of God.

who devour the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers: these shall receive a more abundant punishment.

AND as he looked up, he saw some casting their gifts into the treasury who were rich.

How can ye believe, who receiving honour one from another, seek not the honour which cometh from God alone?

He that speaketh from himself, seeks his own individual honour: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and iniquity in him there is none.

for they loved honour from men, more than honour from God.

Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will:

Let nothing be done contentiously or vain-gloriously; but in humility reckoning others superior to yourselves.

who opposeth himself against, and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is the object of adoration; so that he in the temple of God sitteth as God, exhibiting himself in public that he is God.

The borders

And, behold, a woman, who had an haemorrage twelve years, came behind, and touched the fringe of his garment: