Thomson(i)
13 Now alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens against men. For you neither enter in yourselves, nor suffer them who are going in, to enter.
14 Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you devour the houses of the widows; and for a pretext make long prayers. For this you shall be punished with greater severity.
15 Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, you make him doubly more a child of hell, than yourselves.
16 Alas for you, blind guides, who say, to swear by the temple is not binding; but to swear by the gold of the temple is binding.
17 Foolish and blind! which is greater? The gold? Or the temple which halloweth the gold?
18 And, to swear by the altar doth not bind; but to swear by the gift thereon is binding.
19 Foolish and blind! which is greater? The gift? Or the altar which halloweth the gift?
20 He therefore who sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it and by all on it.
21 And he who sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it and by him who dwelleth therein.
22 And he who sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him who sitteth upon it.
23 Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you pay tithe of mint, and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law; justice, mercy and fidelity. These you ought to have practised without omitting those.
24 Blind guides, you are skimming off the gnat, and swallowing the camel.
25 Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate; but on the inside they are full of rapine, and intemperance.
26 Blind Pharisee, cleanse first what is within the cup, and the plate; so the outside will be clean.
27 Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you are like whitened sepulchres. These indeed appear beautiful on the outside; but within they are full of dead men's bones, and of all Corruption.
28 In like manner you also appear outwardly to men to be righteous; but you are inwardly full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
30 and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been their accomplices in the blood of the prophets.
31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of them who killed the prophets.
32 As for you then, fill up the measure of your fathers.
33 Serpents! brood of vipers! how can you escape the punishment of hell?
34 For this, behold I am about to send you prophets, wise men and Scribes: and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation.