Matthew 23:23–33

²³“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! ^rFor you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and ^shave neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. ²⁴Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

²⁵“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! ^tFor you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and ³self-indulgence. ²⁶Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

²⁷“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! ^uFor you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. ²⁸Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

^29v“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and ⁴adorn the monuments of the righteous, ³⁰and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

³¹“Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that ^wyou are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ^32xFill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. ³³Serpents, ^ybrood ⁵of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?