Matthew 23:11-15

11 ¹The greatest among you shall be your servant.

12 ²Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

13 “But woe ³to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you ⁴shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you ⁵neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. ^[a]

15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single ⁶proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a ⁷child of ⁸hell^[b] as yourselves.

Cross References

• 1. 23:11 ch. 20:26
• 2. 23:12 Luke 14:11; 18:14; [ch. 18:4; Prov. 29:23; Ezek. 21:26; James 4:6, 10; 1 Pet. 5:5, 6]
• 3. 23:13 Luke 11:52
• 4. 23:13 [ch. 16:19]
• 5. 23:13 [ch. 5:20; 21:31; Luke 7:30]
• 6. 23:15 Acts 2:10; 6:5; 13:43
• 7. 23:15 [John 17:12; 2 Thess. 2:3]
• 8. 23:15 See ch. 5:29

Footnotes

• [a] 23:13 Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: 'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation'
• [b] 23:15 Greek 'Gehenna'; also verse 33