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Matthew 23 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
13 But woe to you Scribes & Pharisees, hypocrites: because you shut the Kingdom of Heaven before men. For your selves do not enter in: & those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.
14 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour widows' houses, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgement.
15 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you go round about the sea and the land, to make one proselyte: and when he is made, you make him the child of hell double more than yourselves.
16 Woe to you blind guides, that say, whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing: but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is bound.
17 Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18 And whosoever shall swear by the Altar, it is nothing: but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, is bound.
19 Ye blind; for whether is greater, the gift, or the Altar that sanctifieth the gift?
20 He therefore that sweareth by the Altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it:
21 And whosoever shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it and by him that dwelleth in it:
22 And he that sweareth by Heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
23 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law, judgement, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, & not to have omitted those.
24 Blind guides, that strain a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you make clean that, on the outside of the cup and dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and the dish that the outside may become clean.
27 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear unto men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and all filthiness.
28 So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you build the Prophets' sepulchres, and garnish the monuments of just men,
30 and say: If we had been in our fathers' days, we had not been their fellows in the blood of the Prophets.
31 Therefore you are a testimony to your own selves, that you are the sons of them that killed the Prophets.
32 And fill you up the measure of your fathers.
33 You serpents, viper's broods, how will you flee from the judgement of Hell?
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