Matthew 23

¹Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,

²saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have set themselves down in Moses' seat:

³all things therefore, whatever they may tell you, do and keep. But do not after their works, for they say and do not,

⁴but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger.

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

⁶and love the chief place in feasts and the first seats in the synagogues,

⁷and salutations in the market-places, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

⁸But ye, be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your instructor, and all ye are brethren.

⁹And call not [any one] your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens.

¹⁰Neither be called instructors, for one is your instructor, the Christ.

¹¹But the greatest of you shall be your servant.

¹²And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

¹³But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for ye do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.

¹⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry [land] to make one proselyte, and when he is become [such], ye make him twofold more [the] son of hell than yourselves.