{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/mat023.htm","path":"bib/kjv/mat023.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/mat023.htm","text":"1\u00a0Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,\n \n2\u00a0Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:\n \n3\u00a0All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.\n \n4\u00a0For 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.\n \n5\u00a0But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,\n \n6\u00a0And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,\n \n7\u00a0And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.\n \n8\u00a0But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.\n \n9\u00a0And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.\n \n10\u00a0Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.\n \n11\u00a0But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.\n \n12\u00a0And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.\n \n13\u00a0But 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.\n \n14\u00a0Woe 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.\n \n15\u00a0Woe 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.\n \n16\u00a0Woe 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!\n \n17\u00a0Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?\n \n18\u00a0And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.\n \n19\u00a0Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?\n \n20\u00a0Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.\n \n21\u00a0And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.\n \n22\u00a0And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.\n \n23\u00a0Woe 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.\n \n24\u00a0Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.\n \n25\u00a0Woe 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.\n \n26\u00a0Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.\n \n27\u00a0Woe 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.\n \n28\u00a0Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.\n \n29\u00a0Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,\n \n30\u00a0And 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.\n \n31\u00a0Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.\n \n32\u00a0Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.\n \n33\u00a0Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?\n \n34\u00a0Wherefore, 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:\n \n35\u00a0That 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.\n \n36\u00a0Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.\n \n37\u00a0O 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!\n \n38\u00a0Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.\n \n39\u00a0For 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.","title":"King James Version: Matthew: Matthew Chapter 23","type":"page"}