Matthew 23:25 Cross References - ACV

²⁵ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside they are full of plunder and unrighteousness.

⁷ And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up of wine. They stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in judgment. ⁸ For all tables are full of vomit, filthiness, no place clean.

¹⁹ For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, revilings. ²⁰ These are things defiling the man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

⁴ And coming from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they bathe. And there are many other things that they have taken in to retain: washings of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and beds.) ⁵ Then the Pharisees and the scholars demand of him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands? ⁶ And having answered, he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me. ⁷ But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. ⁸ For having set aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men: washings of pots and cups and many other such like things ye do. ⁹ And he said to them, Well do ye reject the commandment of God, so that ye may keep your tradition. ¹⁰ For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death. ¹¹ But ye say, If a man should say to his father or mother, Whatever ye might be benefited from me is Corban, that is, an offering, ¹² then ye no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, ¹³ annulling the word of God by your tradition that ye have delivered. And many such like things ye do.

³⁹ And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Ye foolish men, did not he who made the outside also make the inside?