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Matthew 23:1 (show verse)

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes, and to his disciples,
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Matthew 23:2 (show verse)

saying: The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat:

Matthew 23:3 (show verse)

therefore, all things that they command you to observe, observe and do. But do not according to their works: for they command, and do not.

Matthew 23:4 (show verse)

For they bind up burdens that are heavy and hard to be borne, and lay them on the shoulders of men; but they refuse to move them with one of their fingers.

Matthew 23:5 (show verse)

And they do all their works for the purpose of being seen by men. They make their amulets broad, and enlarge the fringes of their mantles.

Matthew 23:6 (show verse)

They also love the most honorable places at suppers, and the first seats in the synagogues,

Matthew 23:7 (show verse)

and salutations in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

Matthew 23:8 (show verse)

But you must not be called Rabbi; for one is your leader, and all of you are brethren.

Matthew 23:9 (show verse)

And call no man on earth your father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 23:10 (show verse)

And be not called leaders; for one is your leader, the Christ.

Matthew 23:11 (show verse)

And the greatest among you shall be your minister.

Matthew 23:12 (show verse)

Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.

Matthew 23:13 (show verse)

But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you eat up the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers. For this reason, you shall receive the greater condemnation.

Matthew 23:14 (show verse)

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you close the kingdom of heaven in the face of men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you suffer those who are entering, to go in.

Matthew 23:15 (show verse)

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him twofold more a child of hell than yourselves.

Matthew 23:16 (show verse)

Alas for you, blind guides! who say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, becomes a debtor.

Matthew 23:17 (show verse)

Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

Matthew 23:18 (show verse)

And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift that is on it, becomes a debtor.

Matthew 23:19 (show verse)

Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Matthew 23:20 (show verse)

Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all that is on it.

Matthew 23:21 (show verse)

And whoever swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him that dwells in it.

Matthew 23:22 (show verse)

And he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him that sits upon it.

Matthew 23:23 (show verse)

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, its justice, its mercy, and its faithfulness. These you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have neglected.

Matthew 23:24 (show verse)

Blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel.

Matthew 23:25 (show verse)

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.

Matthew 23:26 (show verse)

Blind Pharisee! first make clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may be clean.

Matthew 23:27 (show verse)

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitened sepulchers, which without appear beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:28 (show verse)

So also you outwardly appear to men to be just, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 23:29 (show verse)

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers 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)

So then you testify against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.

Matthew 23:32 (show verse)

Do you also fill up the measure of your fathers.

Matthew 23:33 (show verse)

Serpents, generation of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell?
Church » Corruption in
eternal Death » Is called » Damnation of hell
Ecclesiasticism » Jewish, rebuked by jesus
Escape » None, from the judgments of God
Eternal » For punishments, ancient modes of hell » Greek, gehenna), the place of punishment
Eternal » Wicked words of Christ concerning » Other references of Christ to
Everlasting » For punishments, ancient modes of hell » Greek, gehenna), the place of punishment
Everlasting » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Other references of Christ to
Gehenna » Greek, the place of punishment
Hell » Gehenna
Hell » In the rv the greek word "gehenna" is translated "hell" in the following scriptures
Judgments » No escape from
Pharisees » Hypocrisy of, reproved » By jesus
Pharisees » Christ » Denounced woes against
Pharisees » Christ » Called, serpents and generation of vipers
Punishment » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Other references of Christ to
Punishment of the The Wicked » Future described as » Damnation of hell
Satire » Of jesus against hypocrites
Serpents » Evil men compared to
Serpents » Illustrative » Of hypocrites
Sin » Defined » Denunciation of
Sin » No escape from the consequences of
Speech » Plainness of
Teachers » FALSE » Admonition against
the future » Punishment » Future state of the wicked » Hell » Greek, gehenna), the place of punishment
the future » Punishment future state of the wicked » Other references of Christ to
Titles and names of the wicked » Serpents
Viper » Figurative
Wicked people » Compared with » Serpents
Wicked, the, are compared to » Serpents
Words of Christ » Concerning the future state of the wicked » Other references of Christ to

Matthew 23:34 (show verse)

For this reason, behold, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Matthew 23:35 (show verse)

that upon you may come all the righteous blood which has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just to the blood of Zachariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 23:36 (show verse)

Verily I say to you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Matthew 23:37 (show verse)

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest those who are sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children together, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, and you refused.

Matthew 23:38 (show verse)

Behold, your house is left to you deserted.

Matthew 23:39 (show verse)

For I say to you, That you shall not see me henceforth, till you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.