15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single (A)proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a (B)child of (C)hell[a] as yourselves.

16 “Woe to (D)you, (E)blind guides, who say, (F)‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ 17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or (G)the temple that has made the gold sacred?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:15 Greek Gehenna; also verse 33

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