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  Matthew   chapter 23

   1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his
  disciples,
   2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in
  Moses' seat:
   3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe,
  that observe and do; but do not ye after their works:
  for they say, and do not.
   4 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.
   5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men:
  they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the
  borders of their garments,
   6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the
  chief seats in the synagogues,
   7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of
  men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
   8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your
  Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
   9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for
  one is your Father, which is in heaven.
  10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your
  Master, even Christ.
  11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your
  servant.
  12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased;
  and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
  13 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.
  14 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.
  15 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.
  16 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!
  17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the
  gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
  18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is
  nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is
  upon it, he is guilty.
  19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the
  gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
  20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth
  by it, and by all things thereon.
  21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by
  it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
  22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the
  throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
  23 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.
  24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and
  swallow a camel.
  25 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.
  26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is
  within the cup and platter, that the outside of them
  may be clean also.
  27 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.
  28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto
  men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and
  iniquity.
  29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
  because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and
  garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
  30 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.
  31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye
  are the children of them which killed the prophets.
  32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
  33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye
  escape the damnation of hell?
  34 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:
  35 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.
  36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come
  upon this generation.
  37 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!
  38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
  39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me
  henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that
  cometh in the name of the Lord.

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