Matthew:23:1-39

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* Then spoke Jesus to the multitude , and to his disciples , * Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses ' seat : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 , * And love the uppermost rooms at feasts , and the chief seats in the synagogues , * And greetings in the markets , and to be called of men , Rabbi , Rabbi . * But be not all of you called Rabbi : for one is your Master , even Christ ; and all you are brethren . * And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father , which is in heaven . * Neither be all of you called masters : for one is your Master , even Christ . * But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant . * And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be brought low ; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 ! * All of you fools and blind : for whether is greater , the gold , or the temple that santifies the gold ? * And , Whosoever shall swear by the altar , it is nothing ; but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it , he is guilty . * All of you fools and blind : for whether is greater , the gift , or the altar that santifies the gift ? * Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar , swears by it , and by all things thereon . * And whoso shall swear by the temple , swears by it , and by him that dwells therein . * And he that shall swear by heaven , swears by the throne of God , and by him that sits thereon . * 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 . * All of you blind guides , which strain out a gnat , and swallow a camel . * 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 . * You blind Pharisee , cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter , that the outside of them may be clean also . * 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 . * Even so all of you also outwardly appear righteous unto men , but within all of you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity . * Woe unto you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! because all of you build the tombs of the prophets , and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous , * 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 . * Wherefore all of you be witnesses unto yourselves , that all of you are the children of them which killed the prophets . * Fill all of you up then the measure of your fathers . * All of you serpents , all of you generation of vipers , how can all of you escape the damnation of hell ? * 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 : * 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 . * Verily I say unto you , All these things shall come upon this generation . * 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 ! * Behold , your house is left unto you desolate . * 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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