Matthew 23:23–33

²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside. ²⁴Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel. ²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance. ²⁶Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean. ²⁷Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. ²⁸Thus also ye, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just, ³⁰and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets: ³²and ye, fill ye up the measure of your fathers. ³³Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?