But Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in men's eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God's sight.

They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment."

Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God's temple, displaying himself as God.

They make

You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.

Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.

The borders

But a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them to make tassels for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread on the tassel of the corners.

You shall make yourselves tassels for the four corners of the clothing you wear.

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You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.

I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.