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Butwoe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!for ye shut up the kingdom of heavenagainstmen:foryeneither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
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Woe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!for ye devourwidows'houses,and for a pretencemakelongprayer: thereforeye shall receive the greaterdamnation.#rl
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Woe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!for ye compassseaandland to makeoneproselyte,andwhen he is made, ye makehim twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
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Woe unto you, ye blindguides,whichsay, Whosoevershallswearby the temple, it isnothing;butwhosoevershallswearby the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
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Ye foolsandblind:forwhetherisgreater, the gold,or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
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And,Whosoevershallswearby the altar, it isnothing;butwhosoever*swearethby the gift that is uponit, he is guilty.[a]
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Ye foolsandblind:forwhether is greater, the gift,or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?#rl
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Whoso therefore shall swearby the altar,swearethbyit,andby all thingsthereon*.
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And whoso shall swearby the temple,swearethbyit,andby him that dwelleththerein.#rl
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And he that shall swearbyheaven,swearethby the throne of God,andby him that sitteththereon*.
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Woe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!for ye pay tithe of mintandanise[b]andcummin,and have omitted the weightier matters of the law,judgment*, mercy,andfaith:these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the otherundone.
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Ye blindguides, which strain at a gnat,andswallow a camel.
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Woe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!for ye make clean the outside of the cupand of the platter,butwithin they are fullofextortionandexcess.
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Thou blindPharisee,cleansefirst that which is within the cupandplatter,that the outside of them may becleanalso.
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Woe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!for ye are like unto whitedsepulchres,whichindeedappearbeautifuloutward,but are withinfull of dead men's bones,and of alluncleanness.
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Even soyealso*outwardlyappearrighteous unto men,butwithin ye arefull of hypocrisyandiniquity.
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Woe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!because ye build the tombs of the prophets,andgarnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
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Andsay, If we had beenin the days of ourfathers, we wouldnot have beenpartakers with themin the blood of the prophets.
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Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves,that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
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Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers,how can yeescape the damnation of hell?
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Wherefore*, behold, Isenduntoyouprophets,and wise men,andscribes:and some ofthem ye shall killandcrucify; and some ofthem shall ye scourgeinyoursynagogues,andpersecute them fromcitytocity:
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Thatuponyou may comeall the righteousbloodshedupon the earth,from the blood of righteousAbelunto the blood of Zachariasson of Barachias,whom ye slewbetween the templeand the altar.
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Verily I say unto you,All these things shall comeuponthisgeneration.#rl
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O Jerusalem,Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets,andstonest them which are sentuntothee, how often would I have gatheredthy*childrentogether, even as a hengatherethherchickensunder her wings,and ye wouldnot!