Matthew 23

¹Then Jesus said to the people and to his disciples:

²The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;

³All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

⁴They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

⁵But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,

⁶And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,

⁷And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher.

⁸But you may not be named Teacher: for one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.

⁹And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven.

¹⁰And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.

¹¹But let the greatest among you be your servant.

¹²And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

¹³But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

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