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Matthew - ch 23 v 21 - 39

  1. He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.
  2. He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.
  3. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin,1 and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
  4. You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
  5. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.2
  6. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
  7. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
  8. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
  9. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
  10. and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'
  11. Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
  12. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
  13. You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna3?
  14. Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
  15. that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
  16. Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
  17. "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
  18. Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
  19. For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"4
  1. cumin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.
  2. TR reads "self-indulgence" instead of "unrighteousness"
  3. or, Hell
  4. Psalm 118:26
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