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