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Matthew 23:1 (show verse)

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

"The scribes and Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses;

Matthew 23:3 (show verse)

so do whatever they tell you, obey them, but do not do as they do. They talk but they do not act.

Matthew 23:4 (show verse)

They make up heavy loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not stir a finger to remove them.

Matthew 23:5 (show verse)

Besides, all they do is done to catch the notice of men; they make their phylacteries broad, they wear large tassels,

Matthew 23:6 (show verse)

they are fond of the best places at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues;

Matthew 23:7 (show verse)

they like to be saluted in the marketplaces and to be called 'rabbi' by men.

Matthew 23:8 (show verse)

But you are not to be called 'rabbi,' for One is your teacher, and you are all brothers;

Matthew 23:9 (show verse)

you are not to call anyone 'father' on earth, for One is your heavenly Father;

Matthew 23:10 (show verse)

nor must you be called 'leaders,' for One is your leader, even the Christ.

Matthew 23:11 (show verse)

He who is greatest among you must be your servant.

Matthew 23:12 (show verse)

Whoever uplifts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be uplifted.

Matthew 23:13 (show verse)

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.

Matthew 23:14 (show verse)

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Matthew 23:15 (show verse)

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

Matthew 23:16 (show verse)

Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.'

Matthew 23:17 (show verse)

You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

Matthew 23:18 (show verse)

You say again, 'Swear by the altar, and it means nothing; but swear by the gift upon it, and the oath is binding.'

Matthew 23:19 (show verse)

You are blind! for which is the greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Matthew 23:20 (show verse)

He who swears by the altar swears by it and by all that lies on it;

Matthew 23:21 (show verse)

he who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who inhabits it;

Matthew 23:22 (show verse)

he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it.

Matthew 23:23 (show verse)

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omit ting the former.

Matthew 23:24 (show verse)

Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!

Matthew 23:25 (show verse)

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.

Matthew 23:26 (show verse)

Blind Pharisee! first clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean as well.

Matthew 23:27 (show verse)

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity.

Matthew 23:28 (show verse)

So to men you seem just, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Matthew 23:29 (show verse)

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the just,

Matthew 23:30 (show verse)

and you say 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

Matthew 23:31 (show verse)

So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets!

Matthew 23:32 (show verse)

And you will fill up the measure that your fathers filled.

Matthew 23:33 (show verse)

You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?
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)

This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town;

Matthew 23:35 (show verse)

it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Matthew 23:36 (show verse)

I tell you truly, it will all come upon this generation.

Matthew 23:37 (show verse)

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

Matthew 23:38 (show verse)

See, your House is left to you, desolate.

Matthew 23:39 (show verse)

For I tell you, you will never see me again till you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."