Lamsa(i)
15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him the son of hell twice more than yourselves.
16 Woe to you, blind guides, for you say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold which is in the temple, he is guilty!
17 O you fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
18 And whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the offering that is on it, he is guilty.
19 O you fools and blind! for which is greater, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering?
20 Therefore he who swears by the altar, he swears by it and by everything that is on it.
21 And whoever swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who dwells in it.
22 And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.
23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you take tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have overlooked the more important matters of the law, such as justice, mercy, and trustworthiness. These were necessary for you to have done, and the same by no means to have left undone.
24 O blind guides, who strain at gnats and swallow camels!
25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and iniquity.
26 Blind Pharisees! clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that their outside may also be clean.
27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like tombs painted white, which look beautiful from the outside, but inside are full of dead bones and all kinds of corruption.
28 Even so, from the outside you appear to men to be righteous, but from within you are full of iniquity and hypocrisy.