Matthew 23 : 1 (MKJV)
Then Jesus spoke to the crowd and to His disciples,
Matthew 23 : 2 (MKJV)
saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
Matthew 23 : 3 (MKJV)
Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do. But do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.
Matthew 23 : 4 (MKJV)
For they bind heavy and hard-to-carry burdens and lay them on men's shoulders. But they will not move them with one of their fingers.
Matthew 23 : 5 (MKJV)
But they do all their works in order to be seen of men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
Matthew 23 : 6 (MKJV)
And they love the first couch at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
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and greetings in the market-places, and to be called, Rabbi! Rabbi! by men.
Matthew 23 : 8 (MKJV)
But you must not be called Rabbi, for One is your teacher, Christ, and you are all brothers.
Matthew 23 : 9 (MKJV)
And call no one your father on the earth, for One is your Father in Heaven.
Matthew 23 : 10 (MKJV)
Nor be called teachers, for One is your Teacher, even Christ.
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But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.
Matthew 23 : 12 (MKJV)
And whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he who shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 23 : 13 (MKJV)
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.
Matthew 23 : 14 (MKJV)
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.
Matthew 23 : 15 (MKJV)
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you compass sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Matthew 23 : 16 (MKJV)
Woe to you, blind guides, saying, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
Matthew 23 : 17 (MKJV)
Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
Matthew 23 : 18 (MKJV)
And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is a debtor!
Matthew 23 : 19 (MKJV)
Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
Matthew 23 : 20 (MKJV)
Therefore whoever shall swear by the altar swears by it, and by all things on it.
Matthew 23 : 21 (MKJV)
And whoever shall swear by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwells in it.
Matthew 23 : 22 (MKJV)
And he who shall swear by Heaven swears by the throne of God, and by Him who sits on it.
Matthew 23 : 23 (MKJV)
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew 23 : 24 (MKJV)
Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Matthew 23 : 25 (MKJV)
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew 23 : 26 (MKJV)
Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of them may be clean also.
Matthew 23 : 27 (MKJV)
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 23 : 28 (MKJV)
Even so you also appear righteous to men outwardly, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 23 : 29 (MKJV)
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
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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.
Matthew 23 : 31 (MKJV)
Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets;
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and you fill up the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 23 : 33 (MKJV)
Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?
Matthew 23 : 34 (MKJV)
Therefore, behold, I send prophets and wise men and scribes to you. And you will kill and crucify some of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city;
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so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.
Matthew 23 : 36 (MKJV)
Truly I say to you, All these things shall come on this generation.
Matthew 23 : 37 (MKJV)
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
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Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
Matthew 23 : 39 (MKJV)
For I say to you, You shall not see Me from now on until you say, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord."
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