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they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
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and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
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`And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren;
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and ye may not call [any] your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,
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nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ.
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And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,
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and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.
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`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.
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`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment
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`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
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`Wo to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary -- is debtor!