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MATTHEW ยท Chapter 23
23:1 Then spoke Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
23:2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
23:3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and
do; but do not all of you after their works: for they say, and do not.
23:4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay
them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one
of their fingers.
23:5 But all their works they do in order to be seen of men: they make
broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
23:6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in
the synagogues,
23:7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi,
Rabbi.
23:8 But be not all of you called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even
Christ; and all you are brethren.
23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father,
which is in heaven.
23:10 Neither be all of you called masters: for one is your Master,
even Christ.
23:11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be brought low; and he
that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for all
of you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for all of you neither
go in yourselves, neither suffer all of you them that are entering to go
in.
23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for all of you
devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore all
of you shall receive the greater damnation.
23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for all of you
compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, all of
you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
23:16 Woe unto you, all of you blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall
swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold
of the temple, he is a debtor!
23:17 All of you fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold,
or the temple that santifies the gold?
23:18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever
swears by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
23:19 All of you fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift,
or the altar that santifies the gift?
23:20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, swears by it, and by
all things thereon.
23:21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, swears by it, and by him
that dwells therein.
23:22 And he that shall swear by heaven, swears by the throne of God,
and by him that sits thereon.
23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for all of you
pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier
matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought all of you
to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
23:24 All of you blind guides, which strain out a gnat, and swallow
a camel.
23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for all of you
make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are
full of extortion and excess.
23:26 You blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup
and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for all of you
are like unto whitewashed sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward,
but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
23:28 Even so all of you also outwardly appear righteous unto men,
but within all of you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because all
of you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the
righteous,
23:30 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.
23:31 Wherefore all of you be witnesses unto yourselves, that all of
you are the children of them which killed the prophets.
23:32 Fill all of you up then the measure of your fathers.
23:33 All of you serpents, all of you generation of vipers, how can
all of you escape the damnation of hell?
23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes: and some of them all of you shall kill and crucify; and some of
them shall all of you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from
city to city:
23:35 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 all of you slew between the temple and the altar.
23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this
generation.
23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone
them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children
together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and all of
you would not!
23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
23:39 For I say unto you, All of you shall not see me henceforth, till
all of you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.
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