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Matthew 23:1 (show verse)
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and His disciples,
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Matthew 23:2 (show verse)
saying, The scribes and Pharisees sat upon the seat of Moses;
Matthew 23:3 (show verse)
therefore do and keep all things so many as they may speak to you, but do not according to their works; for they say, and do not.
Matthew 23:4 (show verse)
But they bind heavy burdens, and place them on the shoulders of the people; and they themselves are not willing to touch them with their finger.
Matthew 23:5 (show verse)
And they do all their works to be seen by the people: for they broaden their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Matthew 23:6 (show verse)
and they love the first couch at the suppers, and the first seats in the synagogues,
Matthew 23:7 (show verse)
and salutations in the forums, and to be called by the people, "Doctor."
Matthew 23:8 (show verse)
But be ye not called Doctor: for One is your teacher; and you are all brothers.
Matthew 23:9 (show verse)
And call no man father upon the earth: for One is your Heavenly Father.
Matthew 23:10 (show verse)
Be not called teachers: because One is your teacher, Christ.
Matthew 23:11 (show verse)
And the great of you shall be your deacon.
Matthew 23:12 (show verse)
But whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 23:13 (show verse)
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens against the people: for you do not go in, neither do you permit those coming in to enter.
Matthew 23:14 (show verse)
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Matthew 23:15 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you compass the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when it may be done, you make him twofold more the son of hell than yourselves.
Matthew 23:16 (show verse)
Woe unto you, blind guides, who are saying, Whosoever may swear by the temple it is nothing; but whosoever may swear by the gold of the temple, he is debtor.
Matthew 23:17 (show verse)
Ye fools and blind: for which is the greater, the gold, or the temple sanctifying the gold?
Matthew 23:18 (show verse)
And, Whosoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever may swear by the gift upon it, is debtor.
Matthew 23:19 (show verse)
Ye blind: for which is the greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?
Matthew 23:20 (show verse)
Therefore the one swearing by the altar, swears by it, and by all things which are on it.
Matthew 23:21 (show verse)
And the one swearing by the temple, swears by it, and by Him who inhabited it.
Matthew 23:22 (show verse)
And the one swearing by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by Him that sitteth upon it.
Matthew 23:23 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you tithe mint and anise and cummin, and pass by the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: it behooves to do these and not to neglect those.
Matthew 23:24 (show verse)
Ye blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow down the camel.
Matthew 23:25 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you purify the exterior of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of extortion and impurity.
Matthew 23:26 (show verse)
Ye blind Pharisee, first purify the inside of the cup, in order that its outside may be clean.
Matthew 23:27 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you are like whitened sepulchers, which are beautiful indeed externally, but within they are full of the hones of the dead people, and every impurity.
Matthew 23:28 (show verse)
So you also appear unto the people indeed righteous, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 23:29 (show verse)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and ornament the sepulchers of the righteous,
Matthew 23:30 (show verse)
and you say, If we were in the days of our fathers we would not have been their fellow-partakers in the blood of the prophets.
Matthew 23:31 (show verse)
So you witness to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
Matthew 23:32 (show verse)
And you fill up the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 23:33 (show verse)
Ye serpents, generations of vipers, how can you escape from the judgment of hell?
Matthew 23:34 (show verse)
Therefore I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: you will kill and crucify some of them; and will scourge some of them in your synagogues, and will persecute them from city to city;
Matthew 23:35 (show verse)
in order that all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of the blessed, whom they slew between the temple and the altar, may come upon you.
Matthew 23:36 (show verse)
Truly I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
Matthew 23:37 (show verse)
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that have been sent unto thee! how frequently did I wish to gather together thy children, in the manner in which a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but ye were not willing!
Matthew 23:38 (show verse)
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Matthew 23:39 (show verse)
For I say unto you, that ye can see me no more until you can say; Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.