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14 [a]Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows’ houses and for a pretense to cover it up make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence.

15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes one [a proselyte], you make him doubly as much a child of hell (Gehenna) as you are.

16 Woe to you, blind guides, who say, If anyone swears by the [b]sanctuary of the temple, it is nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the [c]sanctuary, he is a debtor [bound by his oath].

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:14 Some manuscripts do not contain verse 14.
  2. Matthew 23:16 Richard Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament.
  3. Matthew 23:16 Richard Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament.

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