Matthew 23:25 Cross References - Living_Oracles

²⁵ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! because you cleanse the outside of those cups and platters, which within are laid with rapine and iniquity.

¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed malicious contrivances, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies. ²⁰ These are the things which pollute the man; but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not the man.

⁴ and if they be come from the market, by dipping them; and many other usages there are, which they have adopted, as immersions of cups and pots, and brazen vessels and beds:) ⁵ then the Pharisees and Scribes asked him, Whence comes it that your disciples observe not the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands? ⁶ He answering, said to them, O hypocrites! well do you suit the character, which Isaiah gave of you, when he said, This people honor me with their lips; but their heart is estranged from me. ⁷ In vain, however, they worship me, while they teach institutions merely human." ⁸ For laying aside the commandment of God, you retain the traditions of men, immersions of pots and cups, and many other similar practices. ⁹ You judge well, continued he, in annulling the commandment of God, to make room for your traditions. ¹⁰ For Moses has said, "Honor your father and mother" and "Whosoever reviles father or mother, shall be punished with death." ¹¹ But you maintain, if a man say to father or mother, "Be it corban (that is, devoted) whatever of mine shall profit you"; ¹² he must not thenceforth do anything for his father or mother; ¹³ thus invalidating the word of God, by the tradition which you have established. And in many other instances you act thus.

³⁹ Then the Lord said to him, As for you, Pharisees, you cleanse the outside of your cups and dishes, while you yourselves are inwardly full of rapacity and malevolence. ⁴⁰ Unthinking men! did not he who made the outside, make the inside also?