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Matthew 23 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Pharisaism Exposed

(Mar 12:38–40; Luk 20:45–47 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:1 - Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:2 - saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:3 - all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:4 - Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:5 - But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:6 - and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:7 - and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of men, Rabbi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:8 - But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:9 - And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:10 - Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even the Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:11 - But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:12 - And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Eight Woes

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:13 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:14 - [fn]Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, even while for a pretence ye make long prayers: therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:15 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:16 - Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:17 - Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:18 - And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:19 - Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:20 - He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:21 - And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:22 - And he that sweareth by the heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:23 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:24 - Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:25 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:26 - Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:27 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:28 - Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:29 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:30 - and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:31 - Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:32 - Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:33 - Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:34 - Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:35 - that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:36 - Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Lament over Jerusalem

(Luk 13:34, 35 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:37 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:38 - Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:39 - For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
ASV Footnotes
Some manuscripts exclude verse v. 14. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, even while for a pretence ye make long prayers: therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation. See Mark 12:40; Luke 20:47.
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