Choose Life

11 “This command that I give you today is certainly not too difficult or beyond your reach.

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The Offer of Life or Death

11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.(A)

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11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

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30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

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30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”(A)

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30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry[a] and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger[b] to move them.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:4 Other mss omit that are hard to carry
  2. Matthew 23:4 Lit lift with their finger

They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.(A)

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For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

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23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of[a] mint, dill, and cumin,[b] yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice,(A) mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:23 Or You tithe
  2. Matthew 23:23 A plant whose seeds are used as a seasoning

23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth(A) of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness.(B) You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

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23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

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