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Whoso therefore shall swearby the altar,swearethbyit,andby all thingsthereon*.
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And whoso shall swearby the temple,swearethbyit,andby him that dwelleththerein.#rl
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And he that shall swearbyheaven,swearethby the throne of God,andby him that sitteththereon*.
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Woe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!for ye pay tithe of mintandaniseandcummin,and have omitted the weightier matters of the law,judgment*, mercy,andfaith:these ought ye to have done , and not to leave the otherundone .
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Ye blindguides, which strain at a gnat,andswallow a camel.
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Woe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!for ye make clean the outside of the cupand of the platter,butwithin they are fullofextortionandexcess.
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Thou blindPharisee,cleansefirst that which is within the cupandplatter,that the outside of them may becleanalso.
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Woe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!for ye are like unto whitedsepulchres,whichindeedappearbeautifuloutward,but are withinfull of dead men's bones,and of alluncleanness.
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Even soyealso*outwardlyappearrighteous unto men,butwithin ye arefull of hypocrisyandiniquity.
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Woe unto you,scribesandPharisees,hypocrites!because ye build the tombs of the prophets,andgarnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
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Andsay , If we had beenin the days of ourfathers, we wouldnot have beenpartakers with themin the blood of the prophets.