e ye shut up
the kingdom of heaven from men; for ye yourselves enter not in, and
those who were coming in, ye suffer not to enter. (14)Wo unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and
for a pretence make long prayers: wherefore ye shall receive greater
condemnation. (15)Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained,
ye make him doubly more the child of hell than yourselves. (16)Wo unto
you ye blind guides! who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it
is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, it is
binding. (17)Ye fools and blind! for which is the greater, the gold, or
the temple which consecrates the gold? (18)And again, Whosoever shall
swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the
gift that is upon it, it is binding. (19)Ye fools and blind! which is
the greater, the gift, or the altar which consecrates the gift?
(20)Whosoever therefore sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by
all things that are upon it. (21)And whosoever sweareth by the temple,
sweareth by it, and by him also who dwelleth in it. (22)So he that
sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him who is
seated upon it.

(23)Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithes
of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier
precepts of the law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these thing
ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone. (24)Ye blind
guides! who strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel. (25)Wo unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the
cup, and of the dish, but within they are full of rapacity and
intemperance. (26)Thou blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the
cup and dish, that their outside may become clean also. (27)Wo unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye resemble tombs
whitewashed, which outwardly indeed appear specious, but within are
full of dead men's bones, and all manner of impurity. (28)And just so,
ye without indeed appear to men righteous, but within ye are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity. (29)Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the
sepulchres of the just, (30)and say, If we had been in the days of our
fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the
prophets. (31)Wherefore ye