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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves.
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Woe to you, [ye] blind guides, who say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
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[Ye] fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
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And whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
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[Ye] fools, and blind: for which [is] greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift
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Whoever therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things upon it.
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And whoever shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it
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And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth upon it.
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Woe to 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 ye ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone.
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[Ye] blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.