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13 “How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from[a] heaven in people’s faces. You don’t go in yourselves, and you don’t allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

14 “How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and say long prayers to cover it up. Therefore, you will receive greater condemnation![b]

15 “How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make a single convert, and when this happens you make him twice as fit for[c] hell[d] as you are.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:13 Lit. of
  2. Matthew 23:14 Other mss. omit vs. 14.
  3. Matthew 23:15 Lit. twice as much a son of
  4. Matthew 23:15 Lit. Gehenna; a Gk. transliteration of the Heb. for Valley of Hinnom