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The lamp of the body is the eye. When your eyesight is good, your whole body also is lighted up; but when it is defective, your body is darkened.
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Consider therefore whether the light that is in you is anything but mere darkness.
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If, however, your whole body is penetrated with light, and has no part dark, it will be so lighted, all of it, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."
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When He had thus spoken, a Pharisee invited Him to breakfast at his house; so He entered and took His place at table.
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Now the Pharisee saw to his surprise that He did not wash His hands before breakfasting.
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The Master however said to him, "Here we see how you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup or plate, while your secret hearts are full of greed and selfishness.
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Foolish men! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?
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But as to what is within, give alms, and instantly all is clean in you.
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"But alas for you Pharisees! for you pay tithes on your mint and rue and every kind of garden vegetable, and are indifferent to justice and the love of God. These are the things you ought to have attended to, while not neglecting the others.
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Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.
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Alas for you! for you are like the tombs which lie hidden, and the people who walk over them are not aware of their existence."