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And the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
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[Ye] fools, did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also?
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But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and behold, all things are clean to you.
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But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone.
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Woe to you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over [them] are not aware [of them].
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Then answered one of the lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying, thou reproachest us also.
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And he said, Woe to you also, [ye] lawyers, for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
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Woe to you! for ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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Truly ye bear testimony, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.
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Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they will slay and persecute: