Matthew - Chapter 23 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples,
  • 2. saying, {cf6 The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses seat:}
  • 3. {cf6 all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, {cf15i these} do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.}
  • 4. {cf6 Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.}
  • 5. {cf6 But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders {cf15i of their garments},}
  • 6. {cf6 and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,}
  • 7. {cf6 and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of men, Rabbi.}
  • 8. {cf6 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.}
  • 9. {cf6 And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, {cf15i even} he who is in heaven.}
  • 10. {cf6 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, {cf15i even} the Christ.}
  • 11. {cf6 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.}
  • 12. {cf6 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.}
  • 13. {cf6 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.}
  • 14. {cf6 {cf15i Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, even while for a pretence ye make long prayers: therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.}}
  • 15. {cf6 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.}
  • 16. {cf6 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.}
  • 17. {cf6 Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?}
  • 18. {cf6 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor.}
  • 19. {cf6 Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?}
  • 20. {cf6 He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.}
  • 21. {cf6 And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.}
  • 22. {cf6 And he that sweareth by the heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.}
  • 23. {cf6 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.}
  • 24. {cf6 Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!}
  • 25. {cf6 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.}
  • 26. {cf6 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.}
  • 27. {cf6 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.}
  • 28. {cf6 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.}
  • 29. {cf6 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,}
  • 30. {cf6 and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.}
  • 31. {cf6 Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.}
  • 32. {cf6 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.}
  • 33. {cf6 Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?}
  • 34. {cf6 Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:}
  • 35. {cf6 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.}
  • 36. {cf6 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.}
  • 37. {cf6 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!}
  • 38. {cf6 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.}
  • 39. {cf6 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed {cf15i is} he that cometh in the name of the Lord.}
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