nkjv Matthew:23:2-33 SEEK
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saying : "
The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses '
seat .
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Therefore whatever they tell you to observe ,
that observe and do ,
but do not do according to their works ;
for they say ,
and do not do .
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For they bind heavy burdens ,
hard to bear ,
and lay them on men '
s shoulders ;
but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers .
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But all their works they do to be seen by men .
They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments .
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They love the best places at feasts ,
the best seats in the synagogues ,
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greetings in the marketplaces ,
and to be called by men , "
Rabbi ,
Rabbi .'
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But you ,
do not be called "
Rabbi ';
for One is your Teacher ,
the Christ ,
and you are all brethren .
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Do not call anyone on earth your father ;
for One is your Father ,
He who is in heaven .
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And do not be called teachers ;
for One is your Teacher ,
the Christ .
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But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant .
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And whoever exalts himself will be humbled ,
and he who humbles himself will be exalted .
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But woe to you ,
scribes and Pharisees ,
hypocrites !
For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men ;
for you neither go in yourselves ,
nor do you allow those who are entering to go in .
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Woe to you ,
scribes and Pharisees ,
hypocrites !
For you devour widows '
houses ,
and for a pretense make long prayers .
Therefore you will receive greater condemnation .
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Woe to you ,
scribes and Pharisees ,
hypocrites !
For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte ,
and when he is won ,
you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves .
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Woe to you ,
blind guides ,
who say , "
Whoever swears by the temple ,
it is nothing ;
but whoever swears by the gold of the temple ,
he is obliged to perform it .'
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Fools and blind !
For which is greater ,
the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold ?
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And , "
Whoever swears by the altar ,
it is nothing ;
but whoever swears by the gift that is on it ,
he is obliged to perform it .'
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Fools and blind !
For which is greater ,
the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift ?
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Therefore he who swears by the altar ,
swears by it and by all things on it .
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He who swears by the temple ,
swears by it and by Him who dwells in it .
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And he who swears by heaven ,
swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it .
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Woe to you ,
scribes and Pharisees ,
hypocrites !
For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin ,
and have neglected the weightier matters of the law :
justice and mercy and faith .
These you ought to have done ,
without leaving the others undone .
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Blind guides ,
who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel !
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Woe to you ,
scribes and Pharisees ,
hypocrites !
For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish ,
but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence .
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Blind Pharisee ,
first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish ,
that the outside of them may be clean also .
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Woe to you ,
scribes and Pharisees ,
hypocrites !
For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly ,
but inside are full of dead men '
s bones and all uncleanness .
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Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men ,
but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness .
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Woe to you ,
scribes and Pharisees ,
hypocrites !
Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous ,
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and say , "
If we had lived in the days of our fathers ,
we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets .'
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Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets .
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Fill up ,
then ,
the measure of your fathers '
guilt .
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Serpents ,
brood of vipers !
How can you escape the condemnation of hell ?