Matthew 23:1-15 ▼

1 Then spake Iesus to the multitudes, and to his disciples,

2 Saying: The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moyses seate.

3 All therfore, whatsoeuer they bid you obserue, that obserue and do: but do not ye after their workes, for they say, and do not.

4 Yea, they bynde together heauy burthens, and greeuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders: but they them selues wyll not moue them with one of their fingers.

5 All their workes they do, for to be sene of men: They make broade their philacteries, and enlarge the hemmes of their garmentes.

6 And loue the vppermost seates at feastes, and to syt in the chiefe place in councels,

7 And greetynges in the markettes, and to be called of men, Rabbi.

8 But be not ye called Rabbi: For one is your maister, euen Christe, and all ye are brethren.

9 And call no man your father, vpon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heauen.

10 Neither be ye called maisters: for one is your maister euen Christe.

11 He that is greatest among you, shalbe your seruaunt.

12 But whosoeuer exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted.

13 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: ye neither go in your selues, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in.

14 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye deuoure widdowes houses, and that vnder a pretence of long prayer: therfore ye shall receaue the greater dampnation.

15 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye compasse sea and lande, to make one proselite: & when he is become one, ye make hym two folde more the chylde of hell, then ye your selues are .