Riverside(i)
13 "But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut the kingdom of heaven before men. You yourselves do not enter nor do you permit those who are entering to go in.
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15 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is won you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
16 Alas for you, blind guides! You say, 'Whoever swears by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Temple is bound.'
17 Fools and blind, which is greater, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold holy?
18 You say, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound.'
19 You blind, which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?
20 He, then, who swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it,
21 and he who 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 upon it.
23 "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint, dill, and carraway and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law — justice and kindness and good faith. These you should have practiced, without neglecting those other things.
24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and drink down a camel!
25 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full through greed and self-indulgence.
26 Blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of your cup so that the outside of it may become clean also.
27 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs which outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of uncleanness.
28 So you, too, outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous