MLV(i)
13 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are devouring widows’houses, and praying long prayers for a pretext, because of this, you will be receiving even-more condemnation.
14 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you lock the kingdom of the heavens before men; for you are not entering in yourselves, nor are you allowing those who are entering in, to enter either.
15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you go all around the sea and the dry land to make one Jewish-convert, and whenever he has become one, you are making him double the son of hell as you\'b0 are yourselves.
16 Woe to you, you blind guides, that say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated. 17 You are foolish and blind; for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that makes the gold holy? 18 And, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gift which is upon it, he is obligated. 19 You\'b0 are foolish and blind; for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift holy? 20 Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it, and by all things upon it. 21 And he who swears by the temple, swears by it, and in the one who has dwelt in it. 22 And he who has sworn by the heaven, swears by the throne of God, and in the one who is sitting upon it.
23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and yet have left behind the weighty things of the law: justice and mercy and faith. You ought to do these, and not to have left behind those other things. 24 You blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel! 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate, but they are full from swindling and unrighteousness inside. 26 Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the cup from within and the plate, in order that the outside of them might also become clean.
27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are similar to whitewashed burial chambers, which on the outside indeed appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men’s bones, and full of all uncleanness. 28 So on the outside you indeed appear also righteous to men, but inside, you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the burial chambers of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the righteous, 30 and say, If we were in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 So-then you are testifying to yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 And you, fill up the measure of your fathers. 33 Serpents, offspring of vipers! How may you flee from the judgment of hell?
14 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you lock the kingdom of the heavens before men; for you are not entering in yourselves, nor are you allowing those who are entering in, to enter either.
15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you go all around the sea and the dry land to make one Jewish-convert, and whenever he has become one, you are making him double the son of hell as you\'b0 are yourselves.
16 Woe to you, you blind guides, that say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated. 17 You are foolish and blind; for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that makes the gold holy? 18 And, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gift which is upon it, he is obligated. 19 You\'b0 are foolish and blind; for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift holy? 20 Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it, and by all things upon it. 21 And he who swears by the temple, swears by it, and in the one who has dwelt in it. 22 And he who has sworn by the heaven, swears by the throne of God, and in the one who is sitting upon it.
23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and yet have left behind the weighty things of the law: justice and mercy and faith. You ought to do these, and not to have left behind those other things. 24 You blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel! 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate, but they are full from swindling and unrighteousness inside. 26 Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the cup from within and the plate, in order that the outside of them might also become clean.
27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are similar to whitewashed burial chambers, which on the outside indeed appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men’s bones, and full of all uncleanness. 28 So on the outside you indeed appear also righteous to men, but inside, you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the burial chambers of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the righteous, 30 and say, If we were in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 So-then you are testifying to yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 And you, fill up the measure of your fathers. 33 Serpents, offspring of vipers! How may you flee from the judgment of hell?