Matthew 23: 13 - 22
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"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.
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| 15
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
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| 16
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"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, `If any one swears by the temple, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
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| 17
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You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
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| 18
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And you say, `If any one swears by the altar, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.'
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| 19
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You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
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| 20
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So he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it;
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| 21
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and he who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who dwells in it;
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| 22
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and he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.
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