Matthew:23

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* Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples , * Saying : The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses . * All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you , observe and do : but according to their works do ye not ; for they say , and do not . * For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens , and lay them on men 's shoulders ; but with a finger of their own they will not move them . * And all their works they do for to be seen of men . For they make their phylacteries broad , and enlarge their fringes . * And they love the first places at feasts , and the first chairs in the synagogues , * And salutations in the market place , and to be called by men , Rabbi . * But be not you called Rabbi . For one is your master ; and all you are brethren . * And call none your father upon earth ; for one is your father , who is in heaven . * Neither be ye called masters ; for one is you master , Christ . * He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant . * And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled : and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted . * But woe to you scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men , for you yourselves do not enter in ; and those that are going in , you suffer not to enter . * Woe to you scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites : because you devour the houses of widows , praying long prayers . For this you shall receive the greater judgment . * 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 twofold more than yourselves . * 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 a debtor . * Ye foolish and blind ; for whether is greater , the gold , or the temple that sanctifieth the gold ? * And whosoever shall swear by the altar , it is nothing ; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it , is a debtor . * Ye blind : for whether is greater , the gift , or the altar that sanctifieth the gift ? * He therefore that sweareth by the altar , sweareth by it , and by all things that are upon it : * And whosoever shall swear by temple , sweareth by it , and by him that dwelleth in it : * And he that sweareth by heaven , sweareth by the throne of God , and by him that sitteth thereon . * Woe to you scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ; because you tithe mint , and anise , and cummin , and have left the weightier things of the law ; judgment , and mercy , and faith . These things you ought to have done , and not to leave those undone . * Blind guides , who strain out a gnat , and swallow a camel . * Woe to you scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish , but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness . * Thou blind Pharisee , first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish , that the outside may become clean . * Woe to you scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ; because you are like to whited sepulchres , which outwardly appear to men beautiful , but within are full of dead men 's bones , and of all filthiness . * So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just ; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity . * Woe to you scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ; that build the sepulchres of the prophets , and adorn the monuments of the just , * 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 you are witnesses against yourselves , that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets . * Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers . * You serpents , generation of vipers , how will you flee from the judgment of hell ? * Therefore behold I send to you prophets , and wise men , and scribes : and some of them you will put to death and crucify , and some you will scourge in your synagogues , and persecute from city to city : * That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth , from the blood of Abel the just , even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias , whom you killed between the temple and the altar . * Amen I say to you , all these things shall come upon this generation . * Jerusalem , Jerusalem , thou that killest the prophets , and stonest them that are sent unto thee , how often would I have gathered together thy children , as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings , and thou wouldest not ? * Behold , you house shall be left to you , desolate . * For I say to you , you shall not see me henceforth till you say : Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord .

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