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# Matthew 23 (New King James Version)
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Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees
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##### Chapter 23
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###### 1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples,
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###### 2 saying: **"The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.**
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###### 3 **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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###### 4 **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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###### 5 **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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###### 6 **They love the** **best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,**
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###### 7 **greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, 'Rabbi, Rabbi.'**
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###### 8 **But you, do not be called 'Rabbi'; for One is your** **Teacher,** **the Christ, and you are all brethren.**
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###### 9 **Do not call anyone on earth your father;** **for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.**
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###### 10 **And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.**
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###### 11 **But** **he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.**
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###### 12 **And whoever exalts himself will be** **humbled, and he who humbles himself will be** **exalted.**
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###### 13 **"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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###### 14 **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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###### 15 **"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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###### 16 **"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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###### 17 **Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold** **or the temple that** **sanctifies the gold?**
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###### 18 **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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###### 19 **Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift** **or the altar that sanctifies the gift?**
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###### 20 **Therefore he who** **swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it.**
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###### 21 **He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by** **Him who** **dwells in it.**
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###### 22 **And he who swears by heaven, swears by** **the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.**
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###### 23 **"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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###### 24 **Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!**
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###### 25 **"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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###### 26 **Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.**
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###### 27 **"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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###### 28 **Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.**
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###### 29 **"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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###### 30 **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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###### 31 **"Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that** **you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.**
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###### 32 **Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' _guilt._**
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###### 33 **Serpents,** **brood** **of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?**
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###### 34 **Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes:** **_some_ of them you will kill and crucify, and** **_some_ of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,**
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###### 35 **that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth,** **from the blood of righteous Abel to** **the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.**
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###### 36 **Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.**Jesus Laments over Jerusalem
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###### 37 **"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets** **and stones those who are sent to her! How often** **I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks** **under _her_ wings, but you were not willing!**
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###### 38 **See! Your house is left to you desolate;**
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###### 39 **for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say,** **'Blessed _is_ He who comes in the name of the Lord**!' **"**
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