Thematic Bible
Matthew 23:1 (show verse)
Then Jesus spoke to the multitude and to his disciples,
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Matthew 23:2 (show verse)
saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have sat down in Moses' seat;
Matthew 23:3 (show verse)
therefore, whatever they bid you to observe, observe it and do it, but do not act according to their works, for they say and do not do it.
Matthew 23:4 (show verse)
For they bind burdens that are heavy and grievous to bear and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Matthew 23:5 (show verse)
But they do all their works that they may be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments
Matthew 23:6 (show verse)
and love the first place at feasts and the chief seats in the synagogues
Matthew 23:7 (show verse)
and greetings in the markets and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
Matthew 23:8 (show verse)
But, as for you, desire not to be called Rabbi, for one is your Master, the Christ; and you are all brothers.
Matthew 23:9 (show verse)
And call no one your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens.
Matthew 23:10 (show verse)
Neither be ye called masters, for one is your Master, the Christ.
Matthew 23:11 (show verse)
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
Matthew 23:12 (show verse)
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 23:13 (show verse)
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens in front of men, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye those that are entering to go in.
Matthew 23:14 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer; therefore, ye shall receive the greater judgment.
Matthew 23:15 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.
Matthew 23:16 (show verse)
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Matthew 23:17 (show verse)
Ye fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
Matthew 23:18 (show verse)
And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor.
Matthew 23:19 (show verse)
Ye fools and blind, for which one is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
Matthew 23:20 (show verse)
Whosoever therefore shall swear by the altar, swears by it and by all things thereon.
Matthew 23:21 (show verse)
And whosoever shall swear by the temple, swears by it and by Him that dwells therein.
Matthew 23:22 (show verse)
And he that shall swear by the heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him that sits thereon.
Matthew 23:23 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted that which is more important of the law: judgment, mercy, and faith; these were expedient for ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew 23:24 (show verse)
Ye blind guides, who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
Matthew 23:25 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup or of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and incontinence.
Matthew 23:26 (show verse)
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter that the outside of them may be clean also.
Matthew 23:27 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whitewashed sepulchres, who indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:28 (show verse)
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 23:29 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous
Matthew 23:30 (show verse)
and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Matthew 23:31 (show verse)
Therefore ye are witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
Matthew 23:32 (show verse)
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 23:33 (show verse)
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the judgment of hell?
Matthew 23:34 (show verse)
Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes, and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city,
Matthew 23:35 (show verse)
that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye murdered between the temple and the altar.
Matthew 23:36 (show verse)
Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Matthew 23:37 (show verse)
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that didst kill the prophets and stone those who are sent unto thee, how often I desired to gather thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Matthew 23:38 (show verse)
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Matthew 23:39 (show verse)
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me from now on until ye shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.