KJV ¹ Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

KJV ² Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

KJV ³ All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

KJV ⁴ For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

KJV ⁵ But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

KJV ⁶ And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

KJV ⁷ And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

KJV ⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

KJV ⁹ And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

KJV ¹⁰ Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

KJV ¹¹ But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

KJV ¹² And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

KJV ¹³ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

KJV ¹⁴ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

KJV ¹⁵ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

KJV ¹⁶ Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

KJV ¹⁷ Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

KJV ¹⁸ And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

KJV ¹⁹ Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

KJV ²⁰ Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

KJV ²¹ And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

KJV ²² And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

KJV ²³ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

KJV ²⁴ Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

KJV ²⁵ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

KJV ²⁶ Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

KJV ²⁷ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

KJV ²⁸ Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

KJV ²⁹ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

KJV ³⁰ And 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.

KJV ³¹ Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

KJV ³² Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

KJV ³³ Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?