Matthew 23:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ But all their works they do to be seen by men. For this they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge the tufts of their mantles,

⁹ And it shall be to thee for a sign on thy hand and for a memorial before thy eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord thy God hath brought thee out of Egypt;

³⁸ Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them. Let them make for themselves tufts on the corners of their mantles, throughout all their generations; and on the tufts at the corners you shall put a blue ribbon, ³⁹ and have it on the tufts, that when you see them you may remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them, and not turn aside after your imaginations, and your own eyes, by following of which you have gone a whoring;

⁸ and thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy right hand, and it shall be immoveably before thine eyes.

¹⁸ Therefore lay up these things in your heart, and in your soul, and bind them for a sign on your hand, that they may be immoveably before your eyes.

¹² Thou shalt make bunches of ribbons on the four tufts of the mantles with which thou clothest thyself.

¹⁶ and said, Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord. So he caused him to take a seat in the chariot.

³ Let not acts of kindness and faithfulness forsake thee: but bind them about thy neck

²¹ Bind them continually on thy mind: and tie them as a chain around thy neck. ²² When thou walkest, take this along and let it be with thee: and when thou sleepest, let it guard thee; that when thou awakest, it may talk with thee. ²³ For the command of a law is a lamp and light; and reproof and instruction is the way of life,

¹ Take heed not to practise your righteousness before men in order to be observed by them; otherwise you have no reward from your father who is in heaven. ² Therefore when thou dost an act of charity, sound not a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may be extolled by men. Verily I say to you, they have their reward. ³ But when thou art doing an act of charity, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand is doing; ⁴ that thine act of charity may be in secret; and thy father who seeth in secret will himself reward thee openly. ⁵ And when thou prayest, be not like the hypocrites. Because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets that men may observe them; verily I say to you, They have their reward. ⁶ But as for thee, when thou wouldst pray, retire to thy closet, and having shut the door pray to thy father who is in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will reward thee openly. ⁷ And when you pray, use not a vain multiplicity of words as the heathen do. For they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. ⁸ Be not ye therefore like them; for your father knoweth what things you have need of, before you ask him. ⁹ In this manner therefore pray ye, "Our Father, who art in the heavens, hallowed be thy name; ¹⁰ thy reign come; thy will be done on the earth, as it is in heaven; ¹¹ give us to day our daily bread; ¹² and forgive us our debts, as we do forgive our debtors; ¹³ and bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil [for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for the ages, amen. ¹⁴ For if you forgive men their offences, your heavenly father will also forgive you; ¹⁵ but if you do not forgive men their offences, neither will your father forgive your offences. ¹⁶ And when you fast, be not like the hypocrites, of a dismal countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that men may observe that they are fasting. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.

²⁰ And lo! a woman who had been twelve years afflicted with an efflux of blood, came behind and touched the tuft of his mantle.

¹⁵ Whereupon he said to them, You are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts. Because that which is high among men, is an abomination in the sight of God,

⁴⁷ who devour the families of widows, and for a disguise make long prayers. They shall receive a severer sentence of judgment.

⁴⁴ How can you believe while you court honour one from another, and do not seek the glory which is from God alone?

¹⁸ He who speaketh from himself, seeketh his own glory; but he who seeketh the glory of him who sent him, is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

⁴³ [for they loved the praise of men, more than the praise of God]

¹⁵ Some indeed proclaim the Christ out of envy and contention, but others do it out of good will

³ upon nothing out of a spirit of contention or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind esteeming one another better than yourselves, ⁴ who setteth himself against, and exalteth himself above, all that is called God, or an object of worship; so as to seat himself as God in the temple of God, pointing himself out that he is God.