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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.
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[Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitened sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness.
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Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
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And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
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Wherefore ye are witnesses to yourselves, that ye are the children of them who killed the prophets.
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Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
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[Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?