Matthew 23:16 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁶ “Woe to you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated’.

³³ “Again you have heard that it was said to the ancients: ‘You shall not swear falsely, but you shall perform your oaths to the Lord’. ³⁴ But I say to you not to swear at all: neither by heaven, because it is God’s throne; ³⁵ nor by the earth, because it is a stool for His feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

⁵ But you say: ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever you might be profited by me is a gift to God ”— ⁶ then he must not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have nullified the commandment of God through your tradition.

¹⁴ Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind; and if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

¹⁷ Stupid and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

¹⁹ Stupid and blind!! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out a gnat but gulp down a camel!

²⁶ Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and the dish, so that their outside may also be clean.

¹⁰ For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death’. ¹¹ But you say that if a man should say to father or mother, ‘Whatever profit you might have received from me is Korban’ (that is, a gift to God), ¹² you don’t even allow him to do anything for his father or his mother any more, ¹³ making the Word of God of no effect by your tradition that you have handed down. Yes, you do many such things.”

³⁹ And Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who ‘see’ may become blind.” ⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words and said to Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?” ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, “If you were ‘blind’ you would not have sin. But now you say, ‘We see’, so your sin remains.”

³ Further, I testify again to every man who gets circumcised that he is obligated to keep the whole law.

¹² But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or any other oath. Let your “Yes” be “Yes”, and your “No”, “No”, lest you fall into pretense.