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Matthew 23:6-8
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They love to have the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues,
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and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have people call them rabbi.
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But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all students.
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They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them
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They do all their deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.
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They love to have the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues,
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and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have people call them rabbi.
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But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all students.
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And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father—the one in heaven.
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Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Messiah.
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[a].
Gk [brothers]
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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