Matthew 23:16-18 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.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ 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.