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Matthew 23
Berean Standard Bible · Westminster Leningrad Codex
So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
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They tie up heavy, burdensome loads (note: SBL, NE, and WH They tie up heavy loads) and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
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All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter (note: BYZ and TR include 14Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. See Mark 12:40 and Luke 20:47.).
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell (note: Greek Gehenna; also in verse 33) as you are.
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Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
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And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
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You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel (note: See Leviticus 11:4 and Leviticus 11:23, where camels and gnats are both forbidden as food.).
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
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Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish (note: NA does not include and dish.), so that the outside may become clean as well.
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
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In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
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And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
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Fill up, then (note: Or Go ahead, then, and complete), the measure of the sin of your fathers.
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Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.
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And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on 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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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
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For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
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