Matthew 23:13-22 (Monday)
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But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. |
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. |
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. |
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Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.' |
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Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? |
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And, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it.' |
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Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? |
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Therefore he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. |
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He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwells in it. |
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And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it. |