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Matthew Chapter 23

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MATTHEW

Matthew 23

1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
Matthew 15:10, Matthew 15:20, Luke 20:45, Luke 20:46, Luke 12:1
2Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
Luke 20:46, Luke 20:46, Mark 12:38, Mark 12:38, Malachi 2:7
3All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not.
2 Timothy 3:5, 2 Timothy 3:5, Romans 2:19, Romans 2:24, Titus 1:16
4For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them.
Luke 11:46, Luke 11:46, Acts 15:10, Acts 15:10, Galatians 6:13
5And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.
Matthew 6:1, Matthew 6:16, Matthew 6:1, Matthew 6:16, John 12:43
6And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,
3 John 1:9, 3 John 1:9, Luke 14:7, Luke 14:11, Luke 11:43
7And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.
John 1:38, John 1:38, John 1:49, John 1:49, John 20:16
8But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master: and all you are brethren.
James 3:1, James 3:1, 1 Corinthians 1:12, 1 Corinthians 1:13, 1 Peter 5:3
9And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
1 John 3:1, 1 John 3:1, Hebrews 12:9, Hebrews 12:9, Job 32:21
10Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ.
11He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
1 Corinthians 9:19, 1 Corinthians 9:19, John 13:14, John 13:15, John 13:14
12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5, Proverbs 29:23
13But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you yourselves do not enter in and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.
Luke 11:52, Luke 11:52, Matthew 23:29, Matthew 23:29, Zechariah 11:17
14Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.
15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte. And when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.
Ephesians 2:3, Acts 13:10, Acts 13:43, Ephesians 2:3, Acts 13:10
16Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor.
Matthew 15:14, Matthew 15:14, Matthew 5:33, Matthew 5:35, Matthew 23:17
17Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Matthew 23:19, Matthew 23:19, Numbers 16:38, Numbers 16:39, Numbers 16:38
18And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.
19Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
Exodus 29:37, Exodus 29:37, Exodus 30:29, Exodus 30:29
20He therefore that sweareth by the altar sweareth by it and by all things that are upon it.
21And whosoever shall swear by the temple sweareth by it and by him that dwelleth in it.
Psalms 26:8, 1 Kings 8:13, Psalms 26:8, 1 Kings 8:13, 2 Chronicles 6:2
22And he that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the throne of God and by him that sitteth thereon.
Matthew 5:34, Matthew 5:34, Psalms 11:4, Isaiah 66:1, Psalms 11:4
23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone.
Luke 11:42, Luke 11:42, Micah 6:8, Micah 6:8, Hosea 6:6
24Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.
Matthew 19:24, Matthew 19:24, Matthew 27:6, Matthew 27:8, Luke 6:7
25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.
Luke 11:39, Luke 11:40, Luke 11:39, Luke 11:40, Matthew 15:19
26Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean.
2 Corinthians 7:1, James 4:8, 2 Corinthians 7:1, James 4:8, Hebrews 10:22
27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.
Acts 23:3, Acts 23:3, Luke 11:44, Luke 11:44, Isaiah 58:1
28So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Luke 16:15, Luke 16:15, 1 Samuel 16:7, Matthew 23:5, Psalms 51:6
29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,
Luke 11:47, Luke 11:48, Luke 11:47, Luke 11:48, Acts 2:29
30And 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.
Matthew 23:34, Matthew 23:35, Matthew 21:35, Matthew 21:36, Jeremiah 2:30
31Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.
Acts 7:51, Acts 7:52, Acts 7:51, Acts 7:52, 1 Thessalonians 2:15
32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Genesis 15:16, Genesis 15:16, Numbers 32:14, Numbers 32:14, 1 Thessalonians 2:16
33You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?
Matthew 3:7, Matthew 3:7, Matthew 12:34, Matthew 12:34, John 8:44
34Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.
Matthew 10:16, Matthew 10:17, Matthew 10:16, Matthew 10:17, Matthew 13:52
35That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.
Zechariah 1:1, Zechariah 1:1, Hebrews 11:4, 2 Chronicles 24:20, 2 Chronicles 24:22
36Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
Matthew 24:34, Matthew 24:34, Matthew 10:23, Matthew 10:23, Mark 13:30
37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?
Luke 13:34, Luke 13:35, Ruth 2:12, Luke 13:34, Luke 13:35
38Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate.
Jeremiah 22:5, Jeremiah 22:5, Luke 13:35, Luke 13:35, Luke 21:24
39For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Psalms 118:26, Psalms 118:26, Matthew 21:9, Matthew 21:9, Romans 11:25

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