Bible verses about "pharisees" | BBE

² And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife? ³ And he said to them in answer, What did Moses say you were to do? ⁴ And they said to him, Moses let us give her a statement in writing, and be free from her. ⁵ But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law. ⁶ But from the first, male and female made he them. ⁷ For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; ⁸ And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man. ¹⁰ And in the house the disciples put questions to him again about this thing. ¹¹ And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife; ¹² And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.

² And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife?

¹⁰ But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge. ¹¹ For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God. ¹² So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven. ²² A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power? ²³ And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.

¹ Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings. ² One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food. ³ Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval. ⁴ Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling. ⁵ This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind. ⁶ He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God. ⁷ For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself. ⁸ As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's. ⁹ And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge. ¹¹ For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God. ¹² So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting. ¹⁴ I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean. ¹⁵ And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death. ¹⁶ Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good: ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men. ¹⁹ So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another. ²⁰ Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another. ²¹ It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother. ²² The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval. ²³ But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

³¹ Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you. ³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

⁴⁶ Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts; ⁴⁷ Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.

³⁶ And one of the Pharisees made a request that he would take a meal with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house and took his seat at the table. ³⁷ And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume, ³⁸ And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them. ³⁹ Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner. ⁴⁰ And Jesus, answering, said, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he said, Master, say on. ⁴¹ And he said, Two men were in debt to a certain man of business: one had a debt of five hundred pence, and the other of fifty. ⁴² When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him? ⁴³ Simon, in answer, said, It seems he whose debt was greater. And he said, Your decision is right. ⁴⁴ And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair. ⁴⁵ You did not give me a kiss: but she, from the time when I came in, has gone on kissing my feet. ⁴⁶ You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet. ⁴⁷ And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love. ⁴⁸ And he said to her, You have forgiveness for your sins. ⁴⁹ And those who were seated at table with him said to themselves, Who is this who even gives forgiveness of sins? ⁵⁰ And he said to the woman, By your faith you have salvation; go in peace.

¹⁰ Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer. ¹¹ The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer. ¹² Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have. ¹³ The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. ¹⁴ I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

¹ Then Jesus said to the people and to his disciples: ² The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses; ³ All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not. ⁴ They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them. ⁵ But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes, ⁶ And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues, ⁷ And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher. ⁸ But you may not be named Teacher: for one is your teacher, and you are all brothers. ⁹ And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven. ¹⁰ And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ. ¹¹ But let the greatest among you be your servant. ¹² And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high. ¹³ But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back. ¹⁴ (OMITTED TEXT) ¹⁵ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. ¹⁶ A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible. ¹⁷ You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy? ¹⁸ And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible. ¹⁹ You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy? ²⁰ He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it. ²¹ And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is. ²² And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by him who is seated on it. ²³ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone. ²⁴ You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel. ²⁵ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire. ²⁶ You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean. ²⁷ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things. ²⁸ Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing. ²⁹ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say, ³⁰ If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death. ³² Make full, then, the measure of your fathers. ³³ You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell? ³⁴ For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town; ³⁵ So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not! ³⁸ See, your house is made waste. ³⁹ For I say to you, You will not see me from this time till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.