23Matthew 23

1Then Jesus spoke to the multitude, and to his disciples,Select Matthew 23:1

2Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses's seat.Select Matthew 23:2

3All therefore, whatever they bid you observe, [that] observe and do: but do not ye according to their works: for they say, and do not.Select Matthew 23:3

4For 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.Select Matthew 23:4

5But all their works they do to be seen by men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,Select Matthew 23:5

6And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,Select Matthew 23:6

7And greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.Select Matthew 23:7

8But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, [even] Christ; and all ye are brethren.Select Matthew 23:8

9And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father who is in heaven.Select Matthew 23:9

10Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, [even] Christ.Select Matthew 23:10

11But he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant.Select Matthew 23:11

12And whoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself, shall be exalted.Select Matthew 23:12

13But woe to 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.Select Matthew 23:13

14Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.Select Matthew 23:14

15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves.Select Matthew 23:15

16Woe to you, [ye] blind guides, who say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.Select Matthew 23:16

17[Ye] fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?Select Matthew 23:17

18And whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.Select Matthew 23:18

19[Ye] fools, and blind: for which [is] greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?Select Matthew 23:19

20Whoever therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things upon it.Select Matthew 23:20

21And whoever shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it.Select Matthew 23:21

22And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth upon it.Select Matthew 23:22

23Woe to 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 ye ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone.Select Matthew 23:23

24[Ye] blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.Select Matthew 23:24

25Woe to 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.Select Matthew 23:25

26[Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.Select Matthew 23:26

27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitened sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness.Select Matthew 23:27

28Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.Select Matthew 23:28

29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,Select Matthew 23:29

30And 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.Select Matthew 23:30

31Wherefore ye are witnesses to yourselves, that ye are the children of them who killed the prophets.Select Matthew 23:31

32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.Select Matthew 23:32

33[Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?Select Matthew 23:33

34Wherefore behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city:Select Matthew 23:34

35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.Select Matthew 23:35

36Verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.Select Matthew 23:36

37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that killest the prophets, and stonest them who are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under [her] wings, and ye would not!Select Matthew 23:37

38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.Select Matthew 23:38

39For I say to you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord.Select Matthew 23:39