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Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Explain This Verse
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Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: Explain This Verse
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All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, Explain This Verse
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And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, Explain This Verse
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And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. Explain This Verse
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But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. Explain This Verse
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And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Explain This Verse
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Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. Explain This Verse
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But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. Explain This Verse
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And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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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! Explain This Verse
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Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? Explain This Verse
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And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. Explain This Verse
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Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? Explain This Verse
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Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. Explain This Verse
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And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. Explain This Verse
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And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Explain This Verse
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Explain This Verse
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Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Explain This Verse
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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: Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. Explain This Verse
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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! Explain This Verse