Matthew 23:1-22

Darby Translation

23 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,

² saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have set themselves down in Moses' seat:

³ all things therefore, whatever they may tell you, do and keep. But do not after their works, for they say and do not,

⁴ but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger.

⁵ And all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders [of their garments],

⁶ and love the chief place in feasts and the first seats in the synagogues,

⁷ and salutations in the market-places, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

⁸ But *ye*, be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your instructor, and all *ye* are brethren.

⁹ And call not [any one] your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens.

¹⁰ Neither be called instructors, for one is your instructor, the Christ.

¹¹ But the greatest of you shall be your servant.

¹² And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

¹³ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for *ye* do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.

¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry [land] to make one proselyte, and when he is become [such], ye make him twofold more [the] son of hell than yourselves.

¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.

¹⁷ Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?

¹⁸ And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.

¹⁹ [Fools and] blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?

²⁰ He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.

²¹ And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it.

²² And he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him that sits upon it.