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Matthew 23:13-36 — Seven Woes

Matt.23.13-36

¹³But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people. For you do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to enter. ¹⁴(Absent from the best manuscripts; some later copies add a saying about devouring widows' houses and making long prayers, with greater condemnation.) ¹⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel over sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves. ¹⁶Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated.' ¹⁷Fools and blind ones! For which is greater: the gold, or the temple that made the gold holy? ¹⁸And you say, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift on it is obligated.' ¹⁹Blind ones! For which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift holy? ²⁰Therefore whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. ²¹And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it. ²²And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by the One who sits upon it. ²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and you have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting those. ²⁴Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but swallow the camel! ²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence. ²⁶Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and the plate , so that the outside as well may become clean. ²⁷Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of the bones of the dead and every uncleanness. ²⁸So you also outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, ³⁰and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets.' ³¹So you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³²Then fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³Serpents, brood of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna ? ³⁴Because of this, behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, ³⁵so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

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5/7/2026

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