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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"The scribes and the Pharisees are seated in the chair of Moses. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don't do what they do, because they don't practice what they teach. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people's shoulders, but they themselves aren't willing to lift a finger to move them. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They do everything to be seen by others: They enlarge their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They love the place of honor at banquets, the front seats in the synagogues, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called 'Rabbi' by people. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' because you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers and sisters. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You are not to be called instructors either, because you have one Instructor, the Messiah. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The greatest among you will be your servant. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you don't go in, and you don't allow those entering to go in. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14 |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make one convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as fit for hell as you are! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever takes an oath by the temple, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gold of the temple is bound by his oath.' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Also, 'Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it means nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gift that is on it is bound by his oath.' |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Blind people! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Therefore, the one who takes an oath by the altar takes an oath by it and by everything on it. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The one who takes an oath by the temple takes an oath by it and by him who dwells in it. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And the one who takes an oath by heaven takes an oath by God's throne and by him who sits on it. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, and yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These things should have been done without neglecting the others. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel! |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside of it may also become clean. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every kind of impurity. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we wouldn't have taken part with them in shedding the prophets' blood.' |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors' sins! |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell? |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Truly I tell you, all these things will come on this generation. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 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! |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38See, your house is left to you desolate. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord '!" |
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